A Moose is a real Moose!

Some of you may have read my good friend and award winning photographer Marsel van Oosten’s blog about the African Moose.  http://squivernews.blogspot.com/2011/04/sand-storm.html He went on about it great size and weight. here are some snippets he had to say: The name “Eland” is derived from the Dutch word for moose. When Dutch settlers came to the Cape Province they named the largest wild herbivore they met with the name of the huge northern herbivore. In Dutch the animal is called “Eland antelope” to distinguish it from the Moose, which is found in the northern boreal forests. The eland has a mass of about 650 kilograms, which is the double of the kudu. Elands are said to be one of the slowest antelopes, but they can jump over a height of 2.5 meters or above.
I am here to tell my friend that the real KING of the Moose’s resides here in North America. The North American Moose can weigh in at over 750 kilograms and the male can have antlers that spread 1 – 2 meters in width. Moose in North American have a population around 1,000,000 animals.

I will give Marsel credit, his photograph of the Eland is much better than mine of the Moose. It is unlikely that I could find a herd of bull moose in a sand storm here in North America. As well the Eland is a much more striking animal than the moose