Product Description
This hard plastic and colorful moose toy is well-made and quite imaginative in its brown color and extensive rack. Well proportioned, 2 inches long and 2 inches tall including antlers, our moose will fit nicely into a North American animal, Alaska wildlife diorama or Yukon or Canada diorama. This moose may be useful for a school project or as a party favor or novelty item. Give our little fellow a name. This is certainly a proud-looking animal! Check out our other moose and hoofed animal toys and gifts.
Although moose vary in size and shape, they are the largest members of the deer family. Males (the moose depicted above is a male) weigh on average over 550 kg (1200 lbs) and females often more than 400 kg. Newborn calves weigh around 15 kg but quickly increase in size. Their color varies from a little brown to a dusty black depending on the season and the age of the animal. Young calves are often a light rusty color. The moose has a long nose, drooping lip, hump at the shoulders and small tail, so you can see that the details in our model moose are quite accurate. Our collectible moose even has cloven hooves. The flap of skin that hangs beneath the throat is called a BELL. The correct name for a female moose is a COW; the male is called a BULL, and the young moose is called a CALF. Mothers are extremely aggressive, probably due to the scarcity of food in the winter, their greatest threat to survival. In Europe, the animal that we in America refer to as a "moose" is called an "alce" or "elk."