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Nature · Adult Alaska bull · approximate shoulder reference

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The selected bull-moose reference is approximately 1.8 meters at the shoulder, following Alaska Department of Fish and Game.

Moose, Adult Alaska bull · approximate shoulder reference. Agency-described bull shoulder height · approximately 1.8 meters: 1.8 meters, illustrative estimate.
Interpretive adult bull with antlers. Shoulder height is calibrated below the antler tips; antler spread, tine count and other body proportions are illustrative.

1.8 m

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Agency-described bull shoulder height · approximately 1.8 meters
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Adult Alaska bull · approximate shoulder reference
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A little more perspective

The agency describes full-grown males as almost 6 feet, with 1.8 meters alongside it. This catalog uses the rounded metric description as an example, not a maximum record or a measurement of a named animal. Females and younger moose have different size distributions.

The shoulder hump remains the endpoint even when a bull carries large antlers. The rendered head and antlers continue above its measurement marker. This distinction prevents the antlers from being compressed into a number that originally described the body.

Quick facts

Alaska’s wildlife agency describes full-grown bull moose at about 1.8 meters at the shoulder. Their antlers extend above that endpoint, so total silhouette height is greater.

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