Moose Ears

Sometimes it is hard to tell one moose from another. Molly is not quite a year old, but she will reach her mother's size pretty quickly. One way to tell a young moose from an older moose is by the size of their ears in proportion to their faces.* If you bent a mother moose's ears down over her face, they would reach about one-third of the way. If you bent a young moose's ears over the face (at about 5 months of age), they would reach half way to the end. So who is who below? Are they Molly and Dolly or Dolly and Molly?

* Reported by moose expert Randolph Peterson.

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