What Family Of Animals Does The Moose Belong To?
Moose are actually deer. Their relatives include the elk, the caribou, the mule deer and the white-tailed deer all also found in North America. Moose are in fact the largest deer in the world. And moose inhabit a lot more of the world than one might think. They also live in Europe and Russia. While those moose are called elk, they are all moose at heart. Why do the animals living in North America have a different name? Because the Indians native to this continent gave the moose its North American name. Moose means “twig eater” in the Algonquin language. That name provides a clue to one of the more important things that a moose photographer should know. What Do Moose Eat? Moose eat the twig ends of trees, and with tastes that cover a wide variety of trees. Mountain ash, maple, birch and balsam fir are all part of their diet. They also eat the leaves and sometimes the bark of trees. And they love aquatic vegetation as well. Pondweed, water lily, arrowhead and such underwater delicacies p
