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SWEDEN — It may be impossible to predict what corner of the internet will catch fire with users in any given week. For the next month, it's the 24/7 livestream of moose meandering around northern Sweden.
"For several thousand years the moose have walked the same path to get to the rich pastures of summer," the program description says. "Follow the walk live from Kullberg in the north of Sweden."
Utahns know moose better than most, but it turns out the ungulates' journey down the Ångerman River is more picturesque than watching them meander through traffic on I-80 in Parleys Canyon.
The show began Tuesday and will stream nonstop until May 4, CNN reports. In 2024, 9 million viewers tuned in.
The Swedish slow TV hit "The Great Moose Migration," which began airing Tuesday, uses livestream remote cameras to capture dozens of moose as they swim across the Ångerman River in the annual spring migration toward summer grazing pastures. pic.twitter.com/XbkJGKtpKe
— The Associated Press (@AP) April 15, 2025
On Tuesday, the most exciting moments have been flagged on the media player. In one, moose are swimming through the peaceful water at sunrise, glancing at the trail cam the way early morning joggers look at you with an air of superiority.
The next flagged moment is of — you guessed it — moose swimming haughtily toward the camera, glowing gold in the sun, like a horse and a beaver had a beautiful child.
The most exiting moment hands down was when a curious goose poked a peer's rear while it was diving. That's cinema.
"Millions tune in for three-week live stream of Sweden's moose migration"—but the moose are just one act. The wild's putting on a full show.https://t.co/ZHiv1P9axO#denstoraalgvandringen#denstoraälgvandringenpic.twitter.com/IrvrzSUCoF
— Magdalena Kuchler (@eoraborealis) April 16, 2025
If you like the pace of moose reality TV, you should also check out the livestream of fish waiting outside a door to a canal in the Dutch capitol of Utrecht. You can press a doorbell and let them through.
According to the New Yorker, slow-TV was being perfected in Sweden in the late 2000s. "Bergensbanen: minutt for minutt," for example, recorded a seven and a half hour long train journey from Bergen to Oslo. I feel like I'm on a slow-TV show watching my brother eat salad. For some, the experience is therapeutic; for others, maddening.
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