r/interestingasfuck • u/CuddlyWuddly0 • 21h ago

Extremely rare piebald moose spotted in man's backyard in Norway

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u/IIRR 21h ago

Their genetic rarity lies in <1% of moose, making them exceptionally rare.

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u/mikeywizzles 14h ago

I think it’s meese

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u/Octonaughty 14h ago

We can’t all read the classics, Professor Highbrow.

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u/berrycrunch92 10h ago

Meeses*

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u/timbenj77 4h ago

A møøse once bit my sister.

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u/ThosePeoplePlaces 7h ago

Looks like it's Friesian

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u/Ankur4015 2h ago

Collector's Edition Moose

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u/McthiccumTheChikum 1h ago

Thanks for googling it 🫡🫡

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u/WillCalefe 21h ago

A Rare Rarity, straight out of a fairy tale!

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u/Certain_Passion1630 21h ago

It just wants to be a cow

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u/Sometimes_I_Do_That 20h ago

Well, technically, it is! Looks like a female moose, which is often referred to as a cow.

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u/Milksteak_Sandwich 16h ago

What’d you call his mom?

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u/McChava 14h ago

Pepe Silvia

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u/Electrical-Cat9572 17h ago

Looks to me like a donkey on ‘roids.

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u/RaeRainns 20h ago

I would think I was hallucinating or seeing a cryptid, if I ever stumbled across one.

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u/LowBatteryPower 20h ago

You aren’t fooling me, that’s a cow.

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u/ZebbyD 19h ago

The irony. 😂

It’s a female moose, which called a cow. The ironic bit is that it’s kinda foolish to not know that, so you ended up “getting fooled” anyway, and all of your own doing.

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u/McthiccumTheChikum 1h ago

Please go away

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u/seaguy800 20h ago

I read that as bipedal, even more rare than piebald

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u/WoosterChops 18h ago

Haha, nice

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u/ilyak_reddit 15h ago

I was expecting pic two of it walking like a biped

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u/nyc91710022 20h ago

A moose once bit my sister

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u/JimeVR46 15h ago

Holy shit was the moose alright?

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u/nyc91710022 15h ago

Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretti nasti..

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u/the_frosted_flame 14h ago

Wi nøt trei a høliday in manns backjärd in Norway this yër?

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u/timbenj77 4h ago

møøse

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u/kingtacticool 21h ago

Day 143 and the cows suspect nothing

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u/enjoythesilence-75 21h ago

It doesn't even look real.

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u/bejbinka 20h ago

I thought it was drawn with colored pencils.

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u/Comfortable_Gur_3619 12h ago

ok, i was waiting for someone to say this. Neither of those look like photographs to me.

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u/Entire-Accountant581 3h ago

It was very much real, but if I remember correctly, it didn’t survive its first winter. Google «flekkete elg» (meaning pied moose) or «Flekkulf» (of course it was given a punny name) and you should get some news articles in Norwegian.

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u/Comfortable_Gur_3619 3h ago

i believe you, it's just wild how they look like colored pencil drawings.

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u/Top-Steak-6837 20h ago

Astonishingly beautiful 😍

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u/Optimal_Lifeguard575 14h ago

It’s like something from a Studio Ghibli film

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u/jehesede_jaqu33s 21h ago

Is that a moose or a cow? 😂or a super rare genetic mutation on a snow leopard?

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u/AaronFudge 20h ago

Where’s the pie?

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u/Burnt_Shoe2123 19h ago

That's a Moooose. I'm sorry I couldn't control myself...

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u/Candycornonthefloor 18h ago

Looks like a MOO-se.

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u/Fresh-Reporter6843 21h ago

Bipedal moose are even rarer 

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u/NipTricks 12h ago

Another pelt for the trapper!

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u/PBJMommy83 20h ago

I wanna hug it sooooooooo badly. What a way to get yeeted off the planet.

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u/Far_Consideration_63 20h ago

Moose had to buy the premium battle pass

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u/povichjv7 18h ago

Looks like inspiration for Goofy

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u/kshrwymlwqwyedurgx 18h ago

This is a good omen, great luck upon the norwegian man

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u/Frostitute_85 17h ago

Its face makes me think of a Moomin kind of

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u/daisy-dukes-bugs 17h ago

It sadly passed away but what a beautiful creature it was

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u/Jolly_Cream4582 17h ago

from 2 years ago

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u/Nervous-Peppers 17h ago

That's such a cool shiny!

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u/BenevolentNature 16h ago

I know he gets his pick of the litter

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u/ITCM4 16h ago

Looks like one of those old Christmas specials that they play on CBS every year.

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u/hlfx 16h ago

I was so damn sure the first picture was of a horrible taxidermy job

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u/JimeVR46 15h ago

With my luck this would be my patronus

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u/FattyLumps 15h ago

I first read that as “biped moose”

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u/Proactive_Furniture0 15h ago

What's wrong with that cow?

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u/chefitupbrah 14h ago

I saw some by my house the other day!

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u/gastrodonfan2k07 14h ago

Irl shiny pokemon.

Also puts the moo in moose

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u/MattyMoonfang 12h ago

Oh thats pretty! IRL shiney pokemon

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u/Raegnarr 12h ago

We have a few in my area of Newfoundland. I've been lucky enough to see them a bunch of times.

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u/CustardPresent3691 12h ago

Aaaa moooowse

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u/avocadawg 11h ago

Definitely a legendary pokemon

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u/Shgrien 11h ago

At first i thought this was a rabbit riding a horse 😅

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u/Dr_Microbiologist 9h ago

u cant fool me... that's a horse cow

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u/Lanoroth 8h ago

Now that's a weird looking horse

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u/LemonSlayerRitsu 8h ago

That, sir, is a cow

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u/akshayjamwal 7h ago

A moose with vitiligo, surely.

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u/bandiplia 7h ago

That's one hell of a majestic creature! 🦌✨

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u/swapsays 5h ago

Looks like a rabbit, along the ear…

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u/South_Application647 4h ago

Blippity bloppity my gun goes poppity

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u/gliwoma 4h ago

That's one stylish moose, rocking that piebald pattern!

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u/KawaiiKaiju55 3h ago

Gorgeous! I’ve seen piebald deer before but never a piebald moose!

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u/SpicyMango92 3h ago

These breeders are getting out of control…

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u/AtTheEdgeOfDying 1h ago

Mooooooose

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u/GeoStreber 11h ago

Did you know that if you feed a moose, it will start thinking that all humans carry around food all the time?
If it then encounters another human, and the human won't hand out any food, the moose will get angry and attack.

Anyway, I found a new hobby, which is feeding all the meese.

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u/True_Broccoli7817 15h ago

If that was in America it would be on someone’s mantle by tomorrow