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Seeing a moose in real life was an otherworldly experience. It's HUGE and terrifying.
First time I saw one, I was a kid riding shotgun in my uncle's pickup truck. We were driving pretty fast down this old logging road, on our way out to cut some firewood at an old clearcut site.
All of a sudden there was this big brown wall of fur right outside my window. I couldn't even tell what it was until my uncle gently slowed down to let it pass us. The thing's shoulder was just higher than the top of the truck, and it was running just as fast as us, when it came out of the bush and started running along beside us. Its antlers were almost as wide as the truck was.
We just kept slowing down to give him some space, and it just kept going at full speed until he disappeared around a bend. I didn't even have time to be scared...just in shock at how massive it was. It nearly broke my brain.
My uncle just said something like, "Holy shit, that was close! That would have destroyed my truck if we hit him."
It's a North American elephant.
That is a rather apt description.