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This isn´t now in 100% right place, but maybe 50%. I just noticed an article in which a Finnish nature photographer Juha Mälkönen tells about two most exciting experiences from his time spent in the woods (since 12 years old photographing wildlife) and how he isn´t so afraid what comes to bears, but he admits that he is afraid of one other animal, when in the woods. Moose :)

He tells in this article about two most exciting encounters and he isn´t only one who feels in same way.

First he tells how he was photographing bears and he wanted to get some photos so, that not inside the hut. When he walked in the woods, suddenly in front of him ran a bear and behind bear three cubs. Juha and bear stopped and looked at each others while distance between them was about five meters. Bear grimaced and revealed its teeth while Juha was standing very still, too afraid to make any move, he had camera, but he was too afraid to even try to lift it. He trusted to it, that a bear won´t attack a human unless provoking it and started to walk slowly backwards, bear started to do the same, checking always after a few meters, that Juha is still doing the same and in that way he managed to get out of the situation safely.

He then tells, that while he isn´t so afraid of the bears, with moose it´s a different thing. He tells about another encounter when he met a bull moose. That moose got (for some reason) pissed and charged Juha. He turned and started to run away and managed to get behind one tree, moose crashed that tree right behind him. After that moose followed Juha in a range of a few meters until he managed to get to the road. It was like the moose would have been making sure, that he gets out of the woods. 



This is one photo taken by Juha Mälkonen.

*This image is copyright of its original author

This is article concerning it, what I wrote. In Finnish, so to most here impossible to understand, I think. https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-5669253 Reply