...or in my case a moose! Last week I went hiking every day and decided to wake up early one day and saw a moose about 10 minutes from the lake down the road. I was approaching it on an incline and at first I thought it was a horse. As I got closer I noticed its ears were way too long to be a horses, so then I thought it must be a donkey. As I continued up the hill the legs kept getting longer and longer. That's when I realized it was a moose! The days before I was hiking through the backcountry and kept thinking this would be the perfect place to spot a moose and of course I see one when I'm 10 minutes from civilization and thinking that its a donkey.
I don't really know a whole lot about mooses. I knew it wouldn't try to eat me because they're herbivores, but all I really wanted to know was if they are agressive or not because it doesn't take a rocketscientist to decide who was bigger and if it ran after me it would probably trample me. Luckily it was it in a clearing so I was able to walk around it. Then as I started walking away from it, it starting following me! So I'm guessing they aren't very agressive. This is probably the coolest thing besides all the snow since I've been in Norway.
Just realized it was a moose
As close as I got to it
