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Moose

A moose can eat up to 35 lbs of food a day store over 100 pounds in its stomach. It eats a variety of so-called ‘browse’; leaves, buds and twigs of woody shrubs and trees; as well as tasty underwater aquatic plants in the summer. It can run 35 mph and can easily swim 10 miles. The moose is the state mammal of Maine.

Moose