This would have been just another descriptive image of a grazing moose, if not for the long tongue coming out of its mouth. The tongue is the detail that gives this image its message: a moose having a good breakfast.
You are right, Carol -- the life of a moose is no joke. This is not a zoo -- these animals are on their own, and survival is the name of the game they play. I thought the tongue offered us a change of pace, even if it is anthropomorphic.
Thanks, Tim -- once again, it was burst shooting that did the trick. I took a number of frames, and the tongue happened to be out in one of them. It is the detail that makes the image work.