Secrets in the closet

Nah New Zealand isn't cheating on Wales Moose is just her gay friend who hasn't come out yet that is why he's in the closet

@AmericanButterfly moose should be who they are for their pride no let it hide

A Møøse once bit my sister...

No realli! She was Karving her initials on the møøse with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian møvies: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Mølars of Horst Nordfink"...

Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretti nasti...

@Zeterai
Wi nøt trei a høliday in Sweden this yër?
See the løveli lakes
The wøndërful telephøne system
And mäni interesting furry animals
Including the majestik møøse

@Tarmaque and why not go looking for a grail in castle anthrax while you are at it?

Just judging from that picture, I'd guess that the reason that New Zealanders can't determine for sure if there are moose around, is that the critters just poke their heads out once in a while and then go back to Narnia.

@uktana was there any Moose in Narnia?

@RusA Apparently there are now!

I don't know what worries me more...

- That there may be moose in New Zealand, or

- That there was at least one person who thought that sharing an ocean voyage with multiple live moose was a good idea.

@Gnomon The latter. Definitely the latter.

A ROOM
WITH A MOOSE!

NOOO!
Wait a minute. Did you say a room with a moose?

Various forms of northern game animals have been introduced to New Zealand, but aside from rabbits most of them have not fared well.

Rabbits of course are a plague in both New Zealand and Australia.

@Tarmaque don't know where you got your information from - New Zealand has a large number of feral species doing very well unfortunately - six different species of deer, three species of goat (domestic, chamois and himalayan tahr) stoats, weasels, hedgehogs, cats, foxes, hares and yes, rabbits, as well as ring tailed possums, wallabies and black swans from Australia. Most introduced animals have done very well, much to the detriment of the native fauna and flora.
I suspect Humon has made a common mistake, though - Wapiti, which is also known as Elk in north America, have been introduced into New Zealand. Confusingly, Moose also get called Elk in Europe, despite being a different species from Wapiti. As far as I am aware, Wapiti-Elk were introduced into New Zealand, but Moose-Elk weren't.

@Anthraxia From what I understand, (I'm not a Kiwi, so my information on such matters is third hand) a few Canadian Moose were imported and released on a couple different occasions a hundred years ago. This is in addition to the Colorado Wapiti Elk, which I was to understand didn't do well in the wild.

I'm more used to the Roosevelt Elk, which is a sub species of the Wapiti Elk found in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. It was quite common here until recently when Chronic Wasting Disease caused populations to plummet. However they are still common nearer the ocean and can even be a nuisance to residents.

I was aware of most of those other species, particularly the smaller ones. Around here we mostly have black-tail deer and mule deer, with a small population of endangered (here) white-tail deer. I hear in NZ European Red Deer have thrived in the wild, while the elk population are found mostly on game ranches where they can be looked after.

European red deer are more similar to the Wapti Elk in size and shape than the deer species we have here.

@Anthraxia It's definitely the Southland moose this comic is referring to and they are "Moose-Elk" as you call them, they were released into the wild on multiple occasions in southland. There is no mistake as it's a local legend that the moose is still out there despite there being no actual evidence of a population. It's mostly a joke or an obsession of locals with too much time on their hands.

The moose looks rather sheepish

*BADUMBUM TSSS*

@MooseFace Love it!!!!

What's the plural of moose? Meese? Mooses? None of them seem right.

@poodle_doodle Who needs more than one moose? One is already quite much moose!

@ImportViking You're pretty much right: I believe the plural of moose is "moose". Like, "There's some moose outside."

@Radu
You are correct. There is no plural tense. Some words are like that. Heck, some whole LANGUAGES are like that.

@poodle_doodle I've always favoured "Meeces", but sadly the OED doesn't agree with me
Mind you, I use the same word for the plural of mouse and, again, I find myself going against the grain with that one, too

@poodle_doodle Moosen, of course.

There's a MOOSE LOOSE ABOOT THIS HOOSE! (Based upon this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxrlFU1xZw0 )

@Radu Hi I'm new too! And also in my 30s. High five!

@WeaselMama w00t! *E-Hi-Five!*