The bull, clueless, enticed by the noise anyway, edged closer. Like their brethren in more wild places, urban moose have been swept away by an annual hormonal tide. A cow moose rests tuesday in the fresh grass at Davenport Fields in East Anchorage. With the fall rut under way, a bull has been trailing the cow through the Airport Heights area for several weeks. For moose, it can be a cranky time.
Big bulls try to build harems of as many cows as they can defend.
Cows get choosy. The cantankerous animals become even more irritable than usual. Their temperament kind of changes. Usually you see it more in bulls. They kind of lose their fear of people, and they get aggressive.