The moose is the largest species of deer. It can be found in northern forests and wetlands in North America and Europe. They browse on shoots of willows, birsh, and other trees and on forbes and wetland vegetation. The lip is prehensile for grasping food. Moose are primarily active during the day. The bulls grow large flattened, palmate antlers starting in the spring which are dropped during the winter. These huge deer are mostly solitary, except for mothers with calves. They breed in late fall, and calves are born in early summer. The calves remain with their mothers for one year.
The extinct Pleistocene genus Cervalces from Eurasia and North America was very similar to the moose, and can be treated the same in game terms.