This jumping, wild moose in Wyoming was a horrible role model for this herd of horses.<\/p>\n
Have you ever heard of\u00a0Wilson, Wyoming? The city is only 7 miles or so from the\u00a0Yellowstone tourist town known as Jackson Hole, and it\u2019s where this video takes place. Like the famous Jackson Hole area, Wilson is home to a diverse collection of wildlife like elk, bison, pronghorn, grizzly bears and black bears, and even the mighty moose.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve got a feeling the owner of the horses in this video wishes that moose would mind their own business and stop hopping fences\u2026 and giving the horses ideas.<\/p>\n
In case you didn\u2019t know, moose are the largest of all deer in the deer family, and their height and weight might surprise you. Males are typically bigger than females, but both are still larger than you might think. On average, a female moose usually stands at 5 to 7 feet tall at their shoulders, and can weigh anywhere from 800 to 1,500 pounds.<\/p>\n
In other words, that\u2019s almost a ton (with antlers) walking around.<\/p>\n
Despite their size, and the big ol\u2019 antlers the males carry on the top of their heads (typically weighing 40 to 50 pounds on their own), the creatures are still very agile. Adult moose have been observed running as fast as 35 miles per hour in short bursts, and when it comes to jumping, they can easily clear obstacles that are six to eight feet tall.<\/p>\n
Granted, moose themselves are about that tall, so it\u2019s not that tall of a task for them to hurdle. But it\u2019s believed that, if a moose really needed to, it could even give a 10-foot obstacle a real run for its money. In this video below, the Wyoming moose didn\u2019t even need to showcase its leaping skills. It casually kind of stepped over the fencing that was keeping the horses in place, and the long-faced animals could hardly believe what they were seeing:<\/p>\n
\u201cSo that\u2019s how you do it?\u201d<\/p>\n
Absolutely hilarious.<\/p>\n
Horses are obviously also gifted when it comes to jumping. However, it appears this herd has never entertained the thought of jumping the fencing like this moose did. Social media users that have come across the now viral video have really gotten a kick out of the clip, and have left plenty of comical observations and comments like these below the post:<\/p>\n
\u201cDiscovering free will exists and they can, in fact, just jump.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThose horses are asking, \u2018Is that legal?’\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe didn\u2019t jump the fence. He simply stepped over it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNaw they\u2019re saying, \u2018Look he ain\u2019t smart, he\u2019s leaving all this free hay and oats.’\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cGiving the horses some ideas.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe horses are like, \u201cI don\u2019t think you are supposed to do that.’\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThinking outside of the box.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHorses are like, \u2018I\u2026 I didn\u2019t know we could do that?’\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cUnreal, great work capturing this.\u201d<\/p>\n
Isn\u2019t that the truth? The video of the moose clearing the fence was entertaining in its own right\u2026 but panning over and showing a herd of horses appearing to be astounded by the fence-jumping is pure cinema.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This jumping, wild moose in Wyoming was a horrible role model for this herd of horses. Have you…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":854010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-854009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=854009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/854010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}