Nature is Nasty!!!

Just for the record I'm a outdoor type of person, with that said the stuff I have seen just has to be written about!!
I live in Maine right, well there are a ton of moose & bears up here, also other critters but these 2 breeds are more interesting than you might think. In the state of Maine the end of August is bear hunting season, it is also the time of year that the bears are loading up their bellies for the winter. I can not tell you or express the suprise that hits me every time I see a pile of bear crap in the road. Better yet is the first time that you see a bear crap in the road! You can't help but think to yourself "what in the hell is that"! Imagine if you will your driving along the road and it is dusk, the end to a nice warm early fall day (cause your in Maine there really is no summer). The sun has sunk behind the tree tops, the breeze is blowing but you can still feel the warmth of the day. You come around a corner on a paved road and before you is a big Ole bear hunkered down dropping a turd pile the size of both of your feet in the middle of the road. Now you might be wondering, why is a bear coming out of the woods to crap in the road. Let me tell ya why....LOL They do this because the warm pavement or blacktop feels good on their butt. Then again if you were dropping the size pile they are you'd want something warm massaging your butt too.
Let's move on to the moose, which sort of majestic creatures in their own right, with the huge set of horns & the sheer size of them WOW right? Let me enlighten you on a few facts here about the moose, they are not the sharpest tools in the shed. They are more like the rusted rake at the edge of the yard by the tall weeds, far away from the shed ;) They have been known to ram into a train when they feel threatened, now just let that sink in & marinate for a minute. It feels fear and rams into a TRAIN!!! So you get my point about the rusted rake now...good. With that in mind seeing them mate is no different that ramming into a train. Now that I have seen a moose mate, I'm going to have to say that they are tied in my mind with a chicken mating. Have you ever seen a chicken...oh my good so violent! They climb up on the back of the hen and move their feet and stab her with their claws at the same time and attacking her neck, there by ripping out all of her feathers at the back of her neck!!! If you ever see a bunch of hens walking around with a huge patch of feathers missing on the back of her neck & back, you'll now know what happened to her. Damn man a moose ramming is just as bad and the females almost scream this hideous moan sound. I just, I don't know this time of year up here is nothing I have seen anywhere else. The moose is a nasty freak & the bear well he's just plain nasty...LOL