This moose is not drinking.

[theweaselking]

It is siphoning the lake, processing fish into their component elements, and ejecting the unneeded water via structures that you or I might call "antlers" but in moose are actually wastewater ejection ports that double as bearcrushers.

This is a critical part of the reproductive lifecycle of moose.

Comments

[drhoz.livejournal.com]

heehee

[torrain.livejournal.com]

It is good to be ever vigilant against the eerie ways and canny camouflage of the moose.

[skiriki.livejournal.com]

I see that this moose (a member of "terroranimal shittinmypanticus" genus) has also used the so-called "antlers" (a simpler term often used by non-biologists) to skin a bear (and not, as some people errorneously think, shed the velvety skin covering the bone growth). I can recognize hairless bearskin at any distance, yessir, as a result of having to sit in a tree for four days while ferocious, blood-lusting moose tried to both shake me down and tire me out. Luckily, a bear had a fatal random encounter with these forest psychopaths, and I was able to slip away while the beasts were decapitating, mangling and dismembering the poor grizzly. The only thing I lost was my dignity, and four days of separation from the internet. The squirrel occupying the same tree, however, was mightily miffed that I had to rely on its soft fur while "doing my business" up in the tree, but the threat of throwing it down into the moose maw shut up the yakking tree rat.

[pappy-legba.livejournal.com]

The moose begins life without any structures around its effluent ejectors. The 'antlers' are an accretion of minerals built up from thousands of gallons of effluvia-- rather like biological stalagtites. Thus, the size of a moose's mineral accretions directly correlates with how much lake it has processed, and indirectly with the health and fitness of the animal. For this reason, antler size is a major factor in attracting a mate.

[pocketofheather.livejournal.com]

Moose themselves were engineered by lakes millions of years ago to meet a pressing need for reliable macrofauna to perform water-straining tasks.

[spartonian.livejournal.com]

You're welcome (unless you also got it from Chive).

[singingnettle.livejournal.com]

What purpose does the evil glare serve?