Only male moose have antlers. Female moose do not have antlers. Antlers, which are used during the rutting season, to fight other males for dominance. Long legs for running fast through thick crops of trees and bushes.
Long legs are also useful for walking into ponds to feed upon aquatic vegetation.
This horse-sized animal is the largest member of the deer family with long, dark brown hair, high, humped shoulders and long legs. A pendant of hair-covered skin sometimes reaching 2 feet hangs under the throat. Each April the male moose or bull grows a set of antlers reaching 120-150 cm which he loses in the winter after rutting season. The rut lasts from early September to late October and 8 months later 1-2 calves are born.