Moose shakes his head and his antlers go flying. Watch it happen from a birds-eye view
A man out searching for moose antlers in Canada was stunned to actually find some — still attached to the moose’s head.
Derek Burgoyne was snowshoeing through an icy forest in New Brunswick on Jan. 12 when he spotted three bull moose on his drone’s camera. While two of them had already shed their antlers, the third had both still attached to his head, Burgoyne said in a clip he posted to YouTube.
“I clicked record, luckily,” he said. His drone ended up capturing the exact moment the moose stood up from his bed, shook himself free of ice and snow, and sent his antlers flying into the snow at his hooves.
Just like the moose in a video that went viral in December, this moose got startled by the sound of his own antlers crashing into the crunchy snow and bolted in the other direction.
Moose shed their antlers every winter at the end of the breeding cycle and grow new ones in the spring and summer, according to the Yukon Wildlife Preserve.
Burgoyne followed the moose’s tracks in the snow to retrieve the antlers.
“That is a fresh set of antlers right there,” he said.
Burgoyne plucked the antlers from the snow, clunked them together to knock off the ice and counted 17 points.
He posted the clip to his social media accounts and said the special moment was “what every shed hunter dreams of.”
“This will be a moment I will never forget!!” he wrote. “I feel very fortunate to have this once in a lifetime moment and record this extremely rare footage!!”
This story was originally published January 18, 2023 at 6:50 PM with the headline "Moose shakes his head and his antlers go flying. Watch it happen from a birds-eye view."
