THE LIFE OF MAMMALS 
Ohio. It still occurs sparingly in certain large forests of Lithuania and 
central Russia; and on this continent from Maine to western Alaska, 
wherever unfrequented forests remain. It is stated that about thirty-five 
hundred were shot in Maine alone between 1895 and 1905, yet it still is 
numerous in the northern counties, as also in the Maritime Provinces, 
under the enforcement of wise game laws. 
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The moose is a huge, immensely strong and ungainly animal, 
blackish brown with pale legs and belly, and with a neck so 
short that it can graze only by kneeling. A very 
large bull may stand six and a half to seven feet 
high at the withers, which, with the neck, are clothed in a thick 
mantle of long, coarse, stiff hair; and from the throat hangs 
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Moose. 
