Most of you couldn’t identify the mystery beast spotted on a Maine trail camera

There’s nothing pretty like a path digicam {photograph} of a wild animal in Maine to get Bangor Day-to-day Data readers pondering, and guessing.

On Wednesday, we offered up the related {photograph}, which was captured by digicam trapper extraordinaire Allie Ladd of Byron. He has provided some great video and nonetheless pictures from his favorite spots in western Maine.

This one was additional on the bizarre, or maybe just a little disturbing, facet because of the animal’s proximity to the digicam and the angle at which the {photograph} was taken.

Your guesses have been fairly just a few and included bear, moose, porcupine and even a tree. In any case, there have been a bunch of jokesters who threw out options resembling bigfoot and the chupacabras.

Perhaps not surprisingly, many individuals — roughly one-third of you — precisely acknowledged the image as a result of the south end of a northbound moose.

Proper right here’s how Allie Ladd described what he had photographed.

“Tail on a cow moose,” he said. “Noticed what appeared like eyes, then after zooming in noticed the nostril, mouth, a tooth and a beard. Moose rubbing the realm to rid the ticks or rubbing the earlier winter fur off.”

Ladd estimated that the moose weighs probably 600 to 700 kilos.

It appears the featured thriller image actually is a zoomed-in check out the moose, which moreover encompasses a calf correct subsequent to the cow.