By day they hide in their ‘daytime lair’. A large bull moose can weigh up to 500 kg. The bulls shed their antlers every winter, and they grow back slowly so that the bulls are ready for the mating season in the autumn. A female moose has one or two calves, which stay with their mother until the next year’s calves arrive the following spring. Moose usually live alone. The groups of moose we see are usually cows with calves or yearlings. Cows and bulls may come together before mating, and groups of bulls sometimes wander around in summer in so-called bachelor groups...
In Sweden 250,000 hunters hunt moose in October. Around 100,000 moose are shot every year, just over one third of the country’s total moose population.
Fancy coming face to face with a moose? Visit one of our eight moose parks in Småland:
Grönåsen Älgpark, Kosta
Elinge Älgpark, Hamneda (an der E4)
Älgparken, Yttre Källehult, Tingsryd
Virum älgpark, Vimmerby
Älgpark i Nybro
Laganlands Älgpark, Lagan (an der E4)Smålandet Drive In, Markaryd (an der E4)
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