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Btw, the second most deadly wild animal in Finland is the wasp, so we're pretty well covered already. :)
It freaked me out. For a second, I thought there were black cow ghosts like the black human ghost in the mansion. But as it got closer, I realized it was an elk and the "horns" were really the ears. It ran through the foundation walls like a ghost, though, in the back wall and out through the front just beside the ramp.
BTW, "moose" is an Algonquin (American Indian) word. I thought the animal was called some variety of "elk" (elch, alces, etc.) in Europe. Or as the American word become popular in Europe now?
It's the same species. About 10k years ago, some of them were among the last critters to cross the Berring Land Bridge from the Old World to the New World.
It's a funny thing. Pretty much all Indo-European languages call the critter some variant on the word "elk", so that's the proper name for the European examples going back thousands of years. But when Europeans came to America, they started using the Indian word "moose" for it, even though they already knew it as an "elk". Later on, the Europeans encountered another critter, a huge deer, which seems to be native to the Americas although some had also crossed into NE Siberia via the land bridge. This they called an "elk", even though it's a totally different animal from a "moose". So the American elk is a different critter from the European elk, but the European elk is the same as an American moose.
What I like is the realistic model and fluid galloping animation. Compare the game's moose/elk to, for example, the dancers at the pavilion, who look like deliberately comedic marionettes controlled by drunken puppeteers only 1 more sip short of passing out.
I live too far south for moose but it's a rural area where cattle and horses frequently get out on the roads. Horses are roughly analogous to moose in mass and stature and more dangerous to drive into that cattle. I've seen it happen a lot. Usually, the car's grille hits the horse in the kneecaps causing the body, where all the mass is concentrated, to come through the windshield and bulldoze all the car's occupants. Short-legged cows, OTOH, tend to bounce off the grille.
The only car vs. horse wreck I've ever worked where the driver lived involved, surprisingly, a Cooper Mini. The A-posts (on either side of the windshield) were too strong to fold back (I assume from the design's rally heritage) and too close together to allow the horse to squeeze between them, so the horse stayed on the hood. Actually, the driver was killed temporarily from getting a face full of horse butt at 60mph only slightly cushioned by the airbag in between--he was pulseless when I pried the door open. But he spontaneously came back on his own before I could drag him out and start CPR. And he was talking to us before we'd driven 3 miles towards the hospital.
Yeah, I actually like the NPC graphics. They remind me of Monty Python cut-outs, both in how they move and how they're caricatures. Or like how people form my misspent, drunken youth appear in my memories now. So it does work. I'm just saying, the elk/moose is done to a much more realistic style.
And yeah, I sure wasn't expecting a good result when I 1st walked up to that Mini. Funny thing, the driver's only visible wound was cuts on the back on his left hand, where the airbag blew it into the side window. But horses have somewhere between 500 and 700 gallons of blood (not really, but it looks that way) and that literally painted the car red and was ankle-deep all around it. So us rescuers got totally covered in it, which made the broken glass and roadside leaves stick us. When we got to the hospital, the doctors thought we must have wrecked the ambulance because we looked more like wreck victims than the Mini's driver. It then it was a huge job cleaning up the ambulance afterwards.
It's not just on the road either, one time my grandparents had two meese casually strolling in to their backyard to eat from their apple trees. Upon trying to shoo them away, they got very angry indeed. We all had to retreat inside, and fearing that they would break the glass backdoor with their antlers and come inside, my grandparents alerted the police. This was a busy suburb with the nearest forest a good kilometre away.
Oh, and they attract Germans. Lots and lots of Germans. Why? No one knows, but they love ANYTHING moose related, to the point that hundreds of moose caution traffic signs are stolen every year. By Germans. Not trying to be funny, this is actually a huge problem in rural areas.
That car damage sounds the same as what a horse does. Your friend is quite lucky. Good instincts, too. Big, long-legged animals kill by coming back through the cabin about at eye level. The only defense is to duck.
Wild animals are just that, wild. So they fight. Even the vegetarians. I'm not surprised at all the moose took exception to you all trying to shoo them away. The deer family in general becomes quite aggressive when you come between them and their food. When I was 3, I got tramped by a big mule deer doe over a bag of potato chips.
That's funny about the Germans. It makes me think that if I go down in a German's basement, I'll find a totem pole made of warning signs :).
BTW, do Europeans say "moose" these days or are you just saying that to be clear to Americans?
And FWIW, the plural of 1 moose is 2 moose. Not mooses or meese unless you're going for comic effect. Like 1 deer and 2 deer. I don't know if you're being funny ("meece" is funny) or were just making the logical (but incorrect) assumption that moose takes the plural like goose.
Yeah, I just like how playful the English language is. Anything can be verbed, it's so contextual that even composite words that negate themselves such as 'irregardless' and 'unrelentless' often go unnoticed...and let's not forget that you can turn the plural of 'moose' into 'meese' :D
Also, for what ever reason I just think of reindeer when I hear 'elk', which I shouldn't since the Swedish word for elk is 'älg'. So yeah, personally I just prefer 'moose'.