I too have been 'close' to 'a' moose 2x.
1. Walking with my Chessie dogs on a trail from parking to a power line and back. All of a sudden young moose jumps up in the bush 5 feet from us and runs away. I couldn't tell 'male' or 'female'.
2. While digging potatoes one October morning, I stood up to give myself a 'rest' of straightened legs, when Mr. Moose came trotting in from the upper terrain through my back lot and to the very edge of my garden just to stand. Oops 'turnips' are a bare 10 feet from him. "Good morning", I said and Mr. Moose turned ran off my back lot quite directly for the house owned by our resident 'taxidermist', I kid you not. Could kick myself for worrying about the turnips. I wish, I wish I'd taken a longer look.
As PackerBacker says....
....................Oops, never mind all of those times I've come to a full stop on a public road/highway, 4-laner, etc for a moose. What does a moose do in these cases, but wait for you to stop and then moseyed leisurely across the road. The caribou behave like that too.
But sometimes they run away from you. Always glad it's away, not into my wheels.
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