A 70-year-old Alaska man who was trying to take pictures of two newborn moose was attacked and killed by their mother, the authorities said, the Associated Press reported, quoted by BTA.
The man killed Sunday has been identified as Dale Chorman of Homer, said Austin McDaniel, a spokesman for the Alaska Department of Public Safety.
The female moose had recently given birth.
"While they were walking through the brush looking for the moose, that's when the female moose attacked Dale,'' McDaniel said.
The attack happened while the two were running, he said. The second man, whose identity has not been made public, was not injured.
That person did not witness the attack, so authorities cannot say whether the moose killed Chorman by kicking or stomping him, or both.
The doctors pronounced Chorman dead on the spot. The female moose has left the area, the Alaska State Police said in an online post.
In 1995, a moose trampled to death a 71-year-old man who tried to enter a building on the University of Alaska Anchorage campus. Witnesses said the students threw snowballs and harassed the moose and her calf for hours, and the animals were startled when the man tried to walk past them.
In Alaska, a state with a population of about 737,000, there are up to 200,000 moose.