Moose are large animals, most active at night. They like to eat woody plants in the winter and herbaceous plants in the summer. In Nova Scotia, we are home to two species of moose. The mainland moose, Alces alces americana, inhabits the mainland of the province. In Cape Breton, it is Alces alces andersoni, a species of moose from Alberta. These moose were brought to Cape Breton in the 1940s, after the original moose were wiped out (likely due to hunting and habitat destruction). The mainland moo