If you happen to’ve by no means tried to lick the facet of your automobile throughout the winter, you could not be a moose.

Officers in rural western Canada have put up indicators warning drivers to not let moose lick salt from the roads off their automobiles. Moose like to eat salt, and permitting the animals to be extra snug round vehicles can improve their probabilities of turning into a freeway hazard.

“They’re obsessive about salt, it is one of many issues they want for the minerals of their physique,” Steve Younger, a spokesman for Jasper Nationwide Park in Alberta, told CNN. “They often get it from salt lakes within the park, however now they realized they’ll additionally get highway salt that splashes onto vehicles.”

Jasper Tour Co. proprietor Joe Urie advised CBC Edmonton that for a moose, “highway salt is type of like crack.”