Mary's Monday Metazoan: Mighty Moose

Reader Lindsay sent along this pair of photos of a moose taking a stroll along a dirt road near Elliot Lake, near Sault Ste. Marie in Michigan 's Upper Peninsula.

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That's not a footpath, by the way. It's a single lane dirt road for cars, just to give some sense of how big this beast is.

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