650-pound animal hides from Colorado wildlife officers. ‘Great at hide and seek’
A 650-pound creature tucked its massive body into some lush grass to hide from wildlife officers in a Colorado park, photos and video shows.
“Can you spot the moose in the first photo?” Colorado Parks and Wildlife’s Southeast Region asked in a June 24 post on X, formerly known as Twitter. “They are great at hide and seek.”
The photo shows a wildlife officer peering out into a field in Cottonwood Creek Park through binoculars — with no moose in plain sight. A zoomed in photo shows the moose keeping its eyes and ears pointed toward the officers.
A video shows the team trekking through the tall grass, which appears to tower over their heads in some areas, to reach the moose. Officers immobilized the moose in the field and slipped a tarp beneath its nearly 700-pound body so they could lug it from the field up onto a road where a trailer was waiting.
The Colorado Springs Fire Department offered a hose from a fire engine to help cool the moose down, a video shows. Then a group of about nine wildlife officers and firefighters carefully hoist the moose on top of the tarp into the trailer.
Once inside, they gave the moose a wake-up drug for the ride, cooled it down with some more water and “relocated it to a better habitat within the Southeast Region,” officials said.
Cottonwood Creek Park is about a 10-mile drive northeast from Colorado Springs, in the middle of suburban neighborhoods and a disc golf course.
This story was originally published June 25, 2025 at 11:08 AM with the headline "650-pound animal hides from Colorado wildlife officers. ‘Great at hide and seek’."
