Residents of Red Lodge, Montana, were amused Monday to watch as a moose shared an intimate moment with an inanimate object.

A young male moose tried his luck and found a receptive partner for his raging hormones. The only problem was that the other moose was a life-sized wooden sculpture of a male moose outside the Roosevelt Center.

Kevin and Joan Owens were among the crowd who stopped to witness the bizarre encounter.

They couldn’t resist pulling out their cameras to catch the mating moose in action, and their photos and video of the rutting Red Lodge moose mating have since gone viral on social media.

“It's always somebody's first time, and this guy learned,” Kevin told Cowboy State Daily. “I’m sure he woke up with splinters.” Watch on YouTube

Mounting Moose

The Owens were comin

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