About us

Welcome to Älgriket

Älgriket directly translated is Mooseland

Älgriket is a modern animal park where you can see moose, red deer, fallow deer and llama in their natural environment.

They live in an enclosure that's over 35,000 square meters. The area consists of deciduous forest, fields and a small bog. During the summer one can say that they live in a large pentry. During the winter, we bring in lots of pine-twigs, fodder beets, concentrated feed and apples. Moose are categorized quality-browsers which means that only the best parts are approved as food. Their sense of smell is 200 times better than humans, and about 4 times better than Alsatians. If you have an opportunity to feed a moose, you will notice that they always smell the food before they eat it. Moose sometimes stand on their knees when they graze a field, this can look a little strange but some also choose to eat in this way, not just ruminating. Just as humans, moose have different taste. Our moose eat all kinds of leaves except leaves from the linden tree. And they love apples.

If you visit the king of the forest and his subjects in Älgriket or in any other animal park, remember that you "only" are a temporary visitor who are on the border of their territory where they live all the time. The bull can check this against the one he has not seen before. If the neighbor of the Älgriket, Jan, who is also the photographer of most of the pictures, comes to visit he is now in the circle of the celebrities of the bull.

Respect that animals just like people have little need for physical activity during the hottest hours of the day.

The main entrance kiosk has ice cream and soft drinks. If you have a picnic basket, there are seatings at the entrance, by the animals and at the lake where there is also a barbecue pit.

Welcome to visit the king!