I'm fairly certain that the moose is just the last of the ancient megafauna and it just somehow survived...and was also the smallest??
Crazy.
The stunning scale of a Moose.
Alces alces, also known as Moose, can reach a height of 2.3 m (7ft 6") from hoof to shoulder.
https://video.nostr.build/85a9eead6d76b3ddbfc4220ae3fcc708064d7469b22ccceb24aab69bdb0ae55e.mp4
#amazing #animals #big #strong #nature #wild #respect
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You have Bison and bears also in that category, dangerous enough not to be hunted easy, like a Ground Sloth.
That's a good point.
I don't believe the narrative though that the megafauna were hunted to extinction. Considering that there were mammoths flash frozen with undigested food in their stomachs, that's simply observably untrue.
I tend to think there was a cataclysm that caused the bulk of the more recent extinctions.
True, definitely more than hunting.
