Moose Meme

 A popular theme on the internet has been to show animals that are bigger (or smaller) than you think, like this one. And the moose frequently appears in these examples of surprisingly-sized animals.

In response to this, a new meme seems to be making the rounds concerning exactly how big moose really are. Here we learn that moose can exceed the size of buildings.


You might think that being twice the height of our tallest buildings would be as large as moose can get, but apparently moose can actually rival the size of our largest planets.


It's only a matter of time before astro-zoologists discover galaxy-sized moose.

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