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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f9XRaWk6Ww
 
H4831 said:
Guys, I don't have to look at Google, or any other place, to know that tree was not chewed by a moose. I have seen a great many trees that moose fed on, and the tree in the picture was not chewed on by a moose.
One clincher is the marks are too close to the ground. Moose don't like to bend down to eat, if they can help it. When they chew a tree it is only for a few feet which matches a comfortable height for them to eat.
The OP just gave another clincher. He stated this happened last week. Moose never chew tree bark in the fall. They only chew tree bark when their is a scarcity of twigs, their preferred food. This always happens in the winter, in particular a harsh winter when they have eaten all the twigs available to them.
Bruce
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Hey Bruce, the moose here will eat soft maple bark pretty much as soon as they are done with water plants. They seem to love the stuff.
This is a typical deer rub
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This is typical moose (Ontario)
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Note the similarities in the tooth marks with the OP's pic.

Here's another showing how far down the tree they can go:
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H4831 said:
Guys, I don't have to look at Google, or any other place, to know that tree was not chewed by a moose. I have seen a great many trees that moose fed on, and the tree in the picture was not chewed on by a moose.
One clincher is the marks are too close to the ground. Moose don't like to bend down to eat, if they can help it. When they chew a tree it is only for a few feet which matches a comfortable height for them to eat.
The OP just gave another clincher. He stated this happened last week. Moose never chew tree bark in the fall. They only chew tree bark when their is a scarcity of twigs, their preferred food. This always happens in the winter, in particular a harsh winter when they have eaten all the twigs available to them.
Bruce
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I was watching a moose calf feeding just the other day and it was feeding on its front knees for about an hour....it was pasturing happily doing so and then stood up normally and walked away. LOL, yes they do bend down to eat and even kneel at times.
 
Well, I would have lost a bet badly here. And I spend more time with moose than any other animal!!

The day I stop learning I'll be fertilizing daisies!!!
 
I think those voting porkie need to ask themselves what tools porkies have at their disposal to make 6-8" contiguous marks on a trunk.....

If this in the area as op location suggest, then this is moose work for sure.....
 
OK, modern moose, and eastern moose are sure a lot different than the moose I knew!
Eating the bark of trees any time of the year and living on the prairies, what's next?
 
I have yet to see anything like it in NL. Mostly fir , spruce, alder and birch where I hunt. Here they eat twigs. Maple may just be so sweet they have a hard time staying away.
 
H4831 said:
OK, modern moose, and eastern moose are sure a lot different than the moose I knew!
Eating the bark of trees any time of the year and living on the prairies, what's next?
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You don't think we have the odd moose on the prairies??
 
Well H, don't feel bad. A few years back, I was heading to Estevan down the 47 Hwy, south of Stoughton, when we passed a "Watch for Moose" sign. I was with a couple of other Mounties. I said that someone must have put that sign up as a joke. Nope. Moose out on the bald-assed prairie. What is the world coming to? :p
 
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