Wyoming resident here. We actually do have a "zombie moose" problem and its persistence is in part due to a lack of wolves. No, I am not kidding.

https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/zombie-deer-disease-spreading-and-scientists-are-concerned-it-could-jump-humans

I like the thought that just like goose and geese the plural of moose should respectively be meese.

Actuallyyy...

Goose comes from Old English, where they pluralized [go:s] (think "goes" with a soft S) by adding [iz] (like "ease").

When saying [go:siz], it was kinda hard for the mouth to switch the vowels from the [o] to the [i] quickly, so to save themselves the trouble, they'd change the first vowel to make it a little more similar to the second, so [go:siz] became [ge:siz].

Then, that was too long, so they dropped the [z]. [ge:si] (think "guessy" but the "e" lasts a bit longer than usual).

Then, that was too long, so they dropped the [i]. [ge:s] ("guess" with that same drawn out "e").

📯It's the Great Vowel Shift!📯 Now, [go:s] and [ge:s] become [gu:s] and [gi:s]. Almost there!

The vowels become a tad short over time, and now, you have [gus] and [gis] which are written "goose" and "geese".

But "MOOSE"? That's Algonquin. It has nothing to do with all that noise. "But they sound the same and are written the same?!" So? Haven't you heard? English orthography is a dumpster fire. Nobody knows what they're doing. Not even the words.

One wolf killing a moose is a very difficult feat. But when that wolf succeeds he gets more than half of the meat still.

Six wolves will have a much easier time killing a single moose. They will have almost all meat for themselves, but now have to divide it among them. If that would be done fairly every wolf would only get a third of what they would get if they killed a moose alone.

I don't think what's said in the screenshot is as straightforward as they think it is. I'd be more convinced hunting in packs has a lot more to do with being able to tackle stronger prey. A moose isn't defenseless.

Cat: I have 9 lives!
That moose: Pathetic

If it had to kill the moose 11 times it didn't do a very good job the first 10 times. That's why they hunt in packs.

A Møøse once bit my sister...

What's up with these percentages? How could these possibly be known? You would have to know how much the animal weighed before hand and have control over a lot of variables.

And they cited Reddit...

[more citations needed]

I am struggling to imagine a lone wolf killing an adult moose. A juvenile or elderly/sick one maybe. Unless it managed to hamstring it real early on it just seems implausible

A møøse once bit my sister.

TIL there is a Highlander moose and one brave wolf keeping it at bay.

Attack of the Zombie Moose, truly a Canadian horror story.

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