Rare moose caught on camera in NE China
Xinhua, December 4, 2016 Adjust font size:
Two moose were captured by an infrared camera in a national nature reserve in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province for the first time since the reserve was established in 2013.
The video showed a bull and a cow leisurely foraging for food, meaning they had enough to eat and felt safe, according to reserve staff.
Moose, or elk, are the largest and tallest member of the deer family. Due to its shrinking population and limited habitat range as the result of human activities and climate change, moose have been on the IUCN red list of threatened species since 2008.
In China, there are no more than 3,000 moose, which mainly inhabit northeastern forests. It is a state second-grade protection animal. Endi