Its uniqueness makes it a curiosity. Description Moose are dark brown and long-legged with massive shoulders. Adult males or bulls have broad, flat, palmated antlers tipped with a number of points, depending on age and health. Yearling males have forked antlers and by about five years of age the familiar palmated rack has developed. Antlers are shed during the winter and regrown each spring.
Adults measure nearly six feet at the shoulder.
Bulls weigh between 850 and 1,100 pounds and adult females or cows weigh between 600 and 800 pounds. Moose tend to be loners, except for cows and their calves. Breeding occurs in the fall and single or twin calves are born in June. Yearling calves often live with their mothers until the cow drives them off to give birth to a new calf. Some yearlings re-group with the family several weeks after birth and remain with the cow for up to two years of age.