Alaska man helps trapped and shrieking baby moose while avoiding its mama [Video]

When Spencer Warren pulled up at work on Friday morning, he heard a strange, high-pitched creaking sound from the nearby lake. 

“I’m used to the animals on the lake, and I said, ‘That’s an odd sounding bird,'” said Warren, a pilot-in-training at Destination Alaska Adventure Co, a charter tourism company near Beluga Lake in Homer, Alaska. “But to my surprise, it wasn’t.”

When he followed the shrieks, he found a frightened baby moose, trapped in the lake between the dock and one of the company’s floatplanes.

“He couldn’t get out,” Warren told As It Happens host Nil Köksal. “He was stuck right in there.”

‘Alright, where’s mama?’

Warren was worried about the little moose, but freeing it wasn’t his most immediate concern. 

“The first thing that popped into my head was, ‘Alright, where’s mama?” he said. “I turned to my right, and there she was, coming right at me.”

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