Practicing Caution
Before he got too close he suddenly realized that there was a great chance its mother would be in the vicinity. When an animal’s young is threatened, the mother can become very dangerous and cause serious harm to someone. So after taking a look around the area for the moose’s mother he understood that it was alone.
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Assessing The Situation
Plucas didn’t know too much about this kind of animal, but he could immediately tell that the calf was very young and he concluded that she couldn’t have been older than two weeks. The calf looked distressed and inconsolable, and that’s when Plucas drew his own conclusions about what happened.