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Absolutely; where I'm from nobody would understand you if you referred a moose/caribou as a deer. Hence your helpful clarification.
In in the UP, first time hunters often don’t know the difference between caribou and deer.
The supply shops find out when the hunters come back asking for help because the buck they bagged is too heavy to move. (They’re 500 lbs or more instead of the 100-200 lbs of a white tail)
The size difference is wild. Then moose are absolutely huge.
Yup moved to moose country later on and are super tall. I skidded to a stop in front of one on a dark night and it was facing away and just looked like a tall person standing in the road.
It looked back at us, then climbed straight up a quite steep embankment into the woods.
The dangers in hitting them is that you knock the legs out from under them and they land on your roof and crush you.
huh your meese must be larger than swedish ones, what we're taught will happen is that they go through the windscreen
Note that the hight given is "at the shoulder" (does not include head and also massive antlers).
I found some images, not sure about their accuracy but they seem to be about right AFAIK. They chose a conservative hight a male moose:
Oh, and I learned this fun fact reading the wikipedia page on moose: