MARQUETTE -- If you were around Marquette last weekend, you probably heard about the young bull moose currently wandering around Presque Isle Park.
Marquette City Police closed the park several times over the weekend due to safety concerns.
This is the time of year when moose begin breeding, and the younger bull moose wander away to claim their own territory.
Department of Natural Resource officials say that moose are unpredictable, and they'd like to prevent any negative interaction between humans and the animal.
"I think we encourage people just to stay their distance and leave it alone; you know we don't want to harass it or stress it out in any way," said wildlife biologist Terry McFadden. "You never know when an animal is going to feel cornered, they can seem pretty docile one minute and become agitated the next, especially if they're surrounded or they don't feel like they have an escape route."
As to how the moose came to be at the park, many wildlife travel along natural paths, so it's not uncommon for animals, like bear and moose, to follow the shoreline into Presque Isle Park.
With the hot weather, it would also be unsafe to tranquilize the moose and attempt to move it.
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