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Chinatown posted:i traveled to Kenya long ago and saw many animals but probably my favorite was seeing a hippo take a poo poo and use its tail as like a propeller to spray it everywhere. that owned. Hippos know they’re nasty but they don’t give a gently caress and it owns.
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We have a moose that lives in the woods near our place. Sometimes he'll just stop in the road to munch on stuff so we just have to sit and wait. He's pretty chill, just likes to take his time eating while blocking traffic
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I worked a moment in a fancy hotel just off the archeological zone of Palenque in Chiapas, Mexico. It was cool watching the red macaws fly overhead as I walked to work. Same for watching the agoutis just foraging and doing their thing while I manned the front desk. But we also had a resident family of howler monkeys, in the sense that the hotel grounds were one of their territories and they would be around every few days as they cycled through them. It is forbidden for good reason, but the owner had managed to coax them with food and it was a neat trick for the guests to go out and just hold a banana aloft, and soon the tops of the trees would sway and down would come the family to get a treat. You had to feed the “dad” first, or he would take the fruit off the hands of whoever you fed first anyway. The baby would nibble at your fingers and they have spookily human-like hands with tiny nails and such. God it made me so envious to watch them just sleep all day on the branches without a care in the world.
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Apr 29, 2023 06:47
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Pomme de Terror posted:We have a moose that lives in the woods near our place. Sometimes he'll just stop in the road to munch on stuff so we just have to sit and wait. He's pretty chill, just likes to take his time eating while blocking traffic You guys should stop leaving moose food in the road
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I used to have a cool-rear end job where I would occasionally get to eat my lunch or end my day by sitting on a log watching beavers chomping down trees and building their dams, or in a canoe watching otters chasing ducks and geese around a lake, or walking along herds of elk as they marched through the sagebrush and made the valley smell like sage for miles around. But I don't think I ever got to hang out many animals, unless you count the fat-as-hell ground squirrels and magpies that lived right outside my place. Oh, a fun one was on a day that must have been on one of my days off, because I remember being alone(dumb), was when I ran into a 2-3 year old buffalo a few times as they were trying to find a suitable place for a dust bath/nap. I was ambling through this maze of head-high river grass and we just kept bumping into each other around tight winding grass corners the whole afternoon. He always seemed way more scared of me than I was of him, but he could have trampled me so easily. What a big ol' dork.
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I used to work at a bird of prey/bat/reptile rehab/educational sanctuary. Off the top of my head as far as the memorable ones go, a human imprinted Peregrine Falcon that was illegally hatched from an egg in the DDT years who became one of the prime sperm donors in the reintroduction program (he was very aggressive to adult human men when they talked to adult human women); an adult female Red Tail Hawk who was shot with a shotgun in her wing and became the mascot of the program (she was a sweetheart); a couple other Red Tails, juvenile and adolescent, that were going to be released after injuries healed (they were not sweethearts); a Great Horned Owl that was also shot-injured in its wing (he was cool but owls are skittish); a couple Burrowing Owls (they only came out a few times while I was at work in the year I worked there); a couple American Kestrels, one of which had a toe burnt off in a forest fire and had COPD because of smoke inhalation (they were cool as poo poo, and guess what we used the COPD one for in the elementary ed program); a whole shitload of Mexican Brown Bats (cleaning guano from like 20+ Brown Bats prepared me for my future of cleanroom work, also lol counting and seasoning mealworms for each individual bat for 8 hours); like 6 Indonesian Fruit Bats (lol cutting up borderline-rotten fruit for them for 8 hours); a massive rescued iguana that we eventually had to offload on some other rescue (gently caress that dude, injured more people in 6 months than any other animal in a facility full of wild animals); a bunch of non-venomous snakes; a Western Banded Gecko that was chill as gently caress. Place was cool as poo poo. MrQwerty fucked around with this message at 00:24 on Apr 30, 2023 |
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I retired early because hanging out with these guys and smoking weed is time better spent
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i saw a cinnamon bear and cubs in northern new mexico. very cool
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 I (figuratively) ran into this nice duder in Badlands National Park. He was very chill and happy, but my dog was freaking out so we left w/o taking better pics. Wanna go back and chill with this tatonka
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Milo and POTUS posted:i saw a cinnamon bear and cubs in northern new mexico. very cool where were you at?
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Your mom.
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One of the ravens at the Tower of London separated from a whole group of people to come visit me and I felt very chosen.
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Every time I'm gardening this lass runs up to me and just sorta hangs out. She's just had a litter so looking for food. Also got a small eye infection. Hope it clears up  these photos were from yesterday. 
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https://youtube.com/shorts/sziQCkagYyU?feature=share this guy has a coyote friend
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This was before cell phones, but I left the harbor at Monterey, Ca in my Boston Whaler fishing boat and about 1/4 mile outside the harbor, when I could crank up the throttle a bit, 8 black-and white dolphins(they were actually Dall’s Porpoises, but I didn’t know it at the time) began following the boat, doing a criss-cross pattern back and forth behind the boat and jumping the wake. It looked like some kind of Marineland theme park show except nobody trained them and I’d never been there before. After a few miles, they dropped off, and a few hours later when I was coming back in, sure enough, they piled on the wake and did their neat jumping trick all the way to the harbor entrance where you have to slow down. I asked around and nobody I talked to had had that happen before. The only thing I can think of is that older Boston Whaler boats have a unique hull that gives you a weird wake, and the porpoises loved to play in it.
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When I was a kid on vacation at a beach in Florida I saw a puffer fish the size of a raisin swimming around at the surface. It was only distinguishable from a random piece of floating crud because its tail fin was making a tiny ripple behind it. I scooped it up and it swam around in my cupped hands before I sent it on its way.
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JnnyThndrs posted:This was before cell phones, but I left the harbor at Monterey, Ca in my Boston Whaler fishing boat and about 1/4 mile outside the harbor, when I could crank up the throttle a bit, 8 black-and white dolphins(they were actually Dall’s Porpoises, but I didn’t know it at the time) began following the boat, doing a criss-cross pattern back and forth behind the boat and jumping the wake. It looked like some kind of Marineland theme park show except nobody trained them and I’d never been there before. Theyre super nice boats
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I haven't had many opportunities but goats are definitely the coolest hang-out buddies.
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Literally A Person posted:Crash Bandicoot Reported
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Chinatown posted:i traveled to Kenya long ago and saw many animals but probably my favorite was seeing a hippo take a poo poo and use its tail as like a propeller to spray it everywhere. that owned. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSKQ3ZNQ_O8
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I went snorkeling as a kid and they gave us a bunch of plantains to feed the fish. So I was very happily doing so when this one fish swims directly up to my goggles and hangs there. Our eyes meet, there's a brief pause, then he very deliberately pecks my goggles, turns, and swims away. 25 years later and I still remember the time I was told to go and gently caress by a fish.
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I've pet some deer at a zoo once, saw a male tiger in a safari trip at a wildlife sanctuary, and swam with a bunch of dolphins.
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For rarity, its a hedgehogs. Thats the coolest ever. Many echidnas which are far more prickly than hedgehogs. Quokkas just live near by on a cursed holiday island. Kangaroos nearly blinded me as a child, but are cool if they are small. People rescue joeys (dead parents from car accidents) and bring them home, or sometimes to work. Never seen a wombat, dont want to, they seem angry.
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A wombat bit my uncles pointer toe off
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I was at dead horse beach yesterday and this guy was chasing me around but joke's on them, we all probably got lethal doses of radiation. Was guessing his bird wife was nearby with nest/eggs  Also saw many of this:  And some of whatevwer this is:  Thanks for seeing my vacation photos
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Smugworth posted:A wombat bit my uncles pointer toe off That's a typical maneuver in wombat combat.
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Nigmaetcetera posted:That's a typical maneuver in wombat combat. Mods please change my name to Wombat Combat
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PureEvil6_13 posted:Mods please change my name to Combat Wombat
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I was fortunate enough to get to visit the Galapagos islands about a decade ago. Highlights include an eight foot long shark swimming underneath me as I climbed out of a boat, probably drawn there by the massive seal colony that had a dead one lying on the shoreline. In the town there were small iguanas everywhere, and there was also an island that was like exclusively frigate birds. The tortoises were alright. There was also an idyllic lagoon that was full of marine iguanas basking which was probably the coolest part, just hanging around these giant chill lizards on the sand.
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You'd think after mowing the grass you'd smell green but not want to to see a chopped off hand from a gopher.
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MrQwerty posted:where were you at? near taos
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Milo and POTUS posted:i saw a cinnamon bear and cubs in northern new mexico. very cool Same, but the bear wasn't very friendly. It came back in the night and attacked my friend and I in our tent.
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Even smaller bears are hefty little lads and I would not want to have to defend myself from one that's for sure.
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I held some baby sloths a few times, they are super cute. Met some guy with a giant fro that bought one and tried to smuggle it through airport security in his hair, I have a feeling that didn't work out too well.
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Blow posted:Platypus. I am extremely jealous. Chilling with a platypus is at the top of my bucket list.
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Beer Gay So What posted:I held some baby sloths a few times, they are super cute. Met some guy with a giant fro that bought one and tried to smuggle it through airport security in his hair, I have a feeling that didn't work out too well. Picked the wrong animal if he was gonna pull a fast one
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Once heard what sounded like a bobcat around my parents farm, so my sisters and I went around making sure all the cats were safe inside. We were missing one- a big yellow tom named Krueger. We armed ourselves with flashlights and brought the dogs along to help us search. Someone spotted him on the north side of the property near the wheat fields, so we all took off that way. We went into a field, dogs barking, flashlights swinging, yelling "Here kitty, kitty, kitty!" We kept glimpsing cat eyes and movement and we kept in pursuit. Finally about 100 yards into the field, I saw him turn and look at us pretty clearly. Oh. We were chasing the bobcat. I found Krueger on the exact opposite side of the property soon after, politely waiting in the bushes for someone to escort him home. We walked back together.
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Lived in rural Tobago as a kid, my folks ran a small hotel there. Once, a big ol' python decided to curl up around the rafter above my bed for a time. I was on the top bunk. A few years later, my dad was renting out a place for a month or so and it featured a standalone shower enclosure which came with a guest: a bigass tarantula living in the corner. Otherwise, just a bunch of other miscellaneous creepy crawlies. Bats in the laundry room, giant, but harmless and clean field cockroaches (Phortioeca phoraspoides), every year the cashew trees would be covered with these orange and black, spiky caterpillars. Needless to say, this experience has left me with zero critter phobias I want to pet them all.
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