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Average
weight
900-1,400 pounds
Amount of
food eaten each day
50 to 60 pounds
Adult males
are called
Bulls
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After seeing lots of signs of moose and talking with people in
Cumberland House and The Pas about the importance of moose meat
in their diets, we decided to round up some moose meat to eat. After
a little searching we found some moose meat to try! It was very
good and tasted a lot like beef. Our thought is that cows and moose
are both herbivore
s and that might be one reason why they taste
the same.
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| moose have very different diets from us. They are known as herbivore
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which means they only eat plants. The amount of food that they need
to eat changes throughout the year. In the summer, when there is plenty
of lush food available, the moose eat large amounts of catkins and
tall grasses living in the water. They even eat the leaves of water
lilies. They also enjoy eating fresh plant shoots. |
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In the winter they do not eat much, because food is harder
to find. During winter they mostly eat willow bushes and other woody plants.
In the spring, summer, and fall moose need to eat about 50-60 pounds of
food per day to maintain their great size. A moose stomach can hold up
to 112 pounds of food at one time!
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