QUESTION: What’s the coolest animal you’ve ever seen in the wild?
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has to be a snake otherwise known by its scientific name “Newscum”
Pandas.
Bison in Yellow Stone Park. Was long before cell phones.
Today people get out of their cars for a “Selfie”.
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I call that, attempted editing of the gene pool.
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Here Kitty, Kitty, FAFO
1. Mountain lion (Breckenridge Mountain area & Walnut Creek hills 1970s & 1990s) 2. Big Horn Sheep (Palm Springs area 1970s) 3. huge desert tortoises (Jawbone Canyon area 1960s)
those desert tortoises get massive. Encountered one once whose shell was larger than a webber grill.
By far, it was the Grizzly bears that were catching salmon out of the falls that we were fishing, they were less than 20 yrds away at times, this was while we were fishing in Alaska. They showed zero interest in us the whole time, but I can assure you that they had our full attention…they are massive animals.
Next would be a Mountain Lion while turkey hunting in Covelo CA. it was laying in the middle of a gravel road sunning itself. When it heard us, it stood up and did one of those high back arch stretches that cats do, looked at us then calmly walked away, thank God!!!
We were camping in Yosemite without a tent sleeping under the stars,
when my friend woke me and said, “there’s a guy in a fur coat getting
into the ice chest.” I looked up and there was a black bear rummaging
through our food. Knowing that black bears in Yosemite are used to
humans and are usually not very aggressive, I attempted to shoo it away
when the bear looked over at me with a slab of bacon hanging out of its
mouth, and continued to rip the ice chest apart. Then it left with the bacon,
leaving behind broken eggs and a torn up ice chest. We had to have
breakfast at the lodge since we didn’t have much food after that ordeal.
This happened when I was younger before Yosemite provided metal food
containers, and we were unaware about bears getting into the food found
at campsites.
Jackalope in North Dakota about 20 years ago.
Lucky you didn’t get gored!
Blue Whales, once out of Bodega Bay, and once at the Farallon Islands.
Twice in April, I saw Bald Eagles (or it could’ve been the same one on two different occasions) both times it was the classic adult with the white head & tail. Enormous bird!
This was on the West side of Frank’s Tract and the other was across the street from my house in Tule Town. I’ve seen them before at Huichica Creek, (North of San Pablo Bay) both Bald Eagles and Golden Eagles there, and in the hills above Orinda.
Lake Tahoe too (and alot of black bears there as well)..
The sea turtles in Hawaii were extremely cool to see in the shallow water, just bobbing along. Delicious too.
A male bald eagle and an ocelot.
Bobcat in Las Trampas hills in the middle of a 100 degree day 26 mile mountain bike ride. He looked feral/mangy but was cool sight to see.
Gila monster – Tucson, AZ. Also saw a javelina while hiking in the Rincon Mountains. Back in the ’70’s.
Monkeys in the Onsen with me, kinda creeped me out for a moment then seemed normal.
My dog at the park.
Well at least it was the wild to him.
All it takes is a few squirrels. 😁
Howler monkeys in the Costa Rica forests
Not seen too many animals in the wild, so probably the humpbacks we saw. On land, a king snake, not tremendously unusual, and I think the whale is “cooler.”
It was a one-eyed, one horned, flying purple people eater!! Me and Sheb Wooley saw it way back in 1958!!
Purple people???