- Where are you?

Oh there you are.

This is Robin, hello princess.

How are you?

This is Robin, our moose at Milwaukee County Zoo.

She is 12, gonna be about 12 years old.

She was an orphan in Alaska and so we took her in and raised her.

She's kind of spoiled here, aren't you Robin?

Let's head inside.

So what we do, we actually so we have a little moose bell for her.

Wisconsin does have a few moose, but not very many so it's very rare that you would see a moose in the wild in Wisconsin.

This is the only chance you would probably get to be this close to a moose, and really understand why it's important to do conservation in your daily life to protect animals like her and other animals that live in Wisconsin and throughout the world.

So Robin is about 800 pounds here, so a little bit more right now, and generally what they eat in the wild is vegetation.

So she loves willow, she loves, and actually in the winter they eat a lot of bark.

Whatever they can find.

So this is an antler from a male moose, only male species of deer have antlers with the exception of reindeer and caribou, females do have antlers for that species.

This is actually bone, so it grows until it hits a certain size, and then they shed the velvet which you can kind of see a little bit here.

Those are actually lines from blood vessels because like I said it is bone so it's constantly growing.

And then they'll shed it out right before winter and they'll start growing again right away.

They're actually, especially in Minnesota, their numbers are really declining.

They're very impacted partially by habitat loss, but also by diseases from deer.

They're finding that moose as the climate's changing a little bit, they're not as adapted to those sorts of pests like other animals are, so we're losing a lot of moose in the United States, there's not a lot left.