{"id":985228,"date":"2022-02-10T22:39:20","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T22:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/10\/watch-moose-eats-snow-from-the-hood-of-maine-womans-car\/"},"modified":"2022-02-10T22:39:20","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T22:39:20","slug":"watch-moose-eats-snow-from-the-hood-of-maine-womans-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/10\/watch-moose-eats-snow-from-the-hood-of-maine-womans-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Moose eats snow from the hood of Maine woman&#8217;s car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Moose-eats-snow-from-the-hood-of-Maine-womans-car.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"qdduvBvEJds\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Watch this moose calf lick snow off the hood of a running car\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qdduvBvEJds?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">Feb. 10 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> A Maine woman who pulled over on a road while driving home captured footage of a fearless moose that walked up to eat snow off the hood of her car.<\/p>\n<p>Margo Lukens of Orono said she and her dog had been cross-country skiing in the Caribou Bog Conservation Area and were traveling home on Taylor Road in Orono when she saw lines of cars stopped on both sides of the road.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I could see that there was a police car, pulled over facing our traffic, on the other side and I thought, &#8216;well, something&#8217;s going on,'&#8221; Lukens told the Bangor Daily News.<\/p>\n<p>Lukens said she soon spotted the reason that traffic had come to a halt &#8212; a young moose in the road. She said the moose turned its attention to her vehicle when the car in front of her drove away.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It came up close and began nibbling on the snow on my hood,&#8221; Lukens said.<\/p>\n<p>She captured video of the moose eating snow and licking at the ice on the front of her car.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t feel at all threatened by this moose. He was obviously a yearling or something,&#8221; Lukens said. &#8220;I was a little bit concerned that it was being so unguarded.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>Lukens said her dog was in the car with her, but the canine seemed unconcerned.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a really nice moment,&#8221; Lukens said, &#8220;and my dog, who&#8217;s usually quite vigilant, I think she was too tired to pay attention.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lukens said she saw a police officer and another person ushering the moose out of the roadway as she drove away from the scene.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 10 (UPI) &#8212; A Maine woman who pulled over on a road while driving home captured footage of a fearless moose that walked up to eat snow off the hood of her car. Margo Lukens of Orono said she and her dog had been cross-country skiing in the Caribou Bog Conservation Area and were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":985229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-985228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=985228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}