The American form of elk. This animal, a member of the deer family noted for its great spread of flattened antlers, at one time roamed most of the northeastern section of North America. The average moose was seven feet high and weighed 1,000 pounds.
The moose was to the Indians of the northeastern part of the United States what the buffalo was to those of the Plains. it provided them with both food and clothing.
The name of this animal came into the American language almost directly from the Algonquian dialects, mus or moos, meaning "he strips," or eats off," signifying an animal that ate the young bark and twigs of trees.
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