Ever Encounter a Coyote or Other Wild Animal? WWYD About Future Walking? (wildlife, look)
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Even though a lot of people find frogs creepy, I like them a lot. I have three frogs at home and one turtle. I like them a lot. I think they are exotic pets that why I encountered a lot of problems when I got them as a present for my Birthday. I didn't have a place to place them and I didn't know how to feed them, that is why my main question was What Eats a Frog? I found a site that helped me a lot. This site is based on information about the nutrition of exotic pets and wild animals. Now my frogs are happy because they have their own aquarium and I feed them with the correct food. __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ ___________________
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We are staying in a cabin at the edge of a mangrove swamp. For twenty years we've been visiting here and been warned of the crocodiles but have never seen one.
This week DH was out for a walk and stopped to look down a moisture-filled path. Nothing there. Then he looked down at his feet and there was the snout of a ten-footer right in front of him having a little nap in the sun.
He took me back another day and there was Mr. Croc again. I looked and kept on walking. Never have I seen a crocodile at rest with such wide, gleaming eyes, Nope! That was definitely not a napping croc.
Yikes, would want to be far, far, far away from that!
It's beyond me why seeing a coyote or other wildlife gets an OMG what should I do !!! reaction.
Just go about your life and the coyote will do the same.
The only exceptions are its not smart to walk up on a moose or mama grizzly bear. Back away from those two. Swing a couple of feet wide of a rattlesnake, but you don't have to go around the block or run and jump into your car for the snake, but it might not be a bad idea for the mama grizzly bear (but don't run where she is watching).
If there are coyotes in your yard, don't let your 2 year old toddler out there to play unsupervised. Other than that, shoo the coyote away if you don't want him there.
It's beyond me why seeing a coyote or other wildlife gets an OMG what should I do !!! reaction.
Just go about your life and the coyote will do the same.
The only exceptions are its not smart to walk up on a moose or mama grizzly bear. Back away from those two. Swing a couple of feet wide of a rattlesnake, but you don't have to go around the block or run and jump into your car for the snake, but it might not be a bad idea for the mama grizzly bear (but don't run where she is watching).
If there are coyotes in your yard, don't let your 2 year old toddler out there to play unsupervised. Other than that, shoo the coyote away if you don't want him there.
I think a lot of people are emotionally invested in the idea that hiking, backpacking, or otherwise enjoying the wilderness is an intrepid act of bravery, and inventing all manner of mortal threats from the fauna furthers that fantasy.
In reality, North America has few creatures to worry about. You're spot on about coyotes and rattlesnakes. Polar bears are probably the biggest danger, but almost no one lives where Ursus maritimus ranges. Brown bears (grizzlies, more or less) are less dangerous. Is prudence called for around them? Yes. But the facts that a sizeable portion of the public are complete idiots, millions of people (including a substantial number of the aforementioned idiots) visit Yellowstone (where brown bears roam) every year, and serious encounters there between man and brownie are still quite rare, tells me that you have to be really unlucky to truly run afoul of one of them no matter how foolish you behave.
I spend more time worrying about deer, which kill more Americans in a year than do bears in a century. But those they kill are invariably on roads and highways, not on trails. This is fresh on my mind because a couple of weeks ago at night, I had to lock up the brakes on a highway and barely missed experiencing my third such encounter.
A lot of people got their predator smarts from their dear old dad who read too many issues of Field and Stream.
I happen to like wolves (I even scratched behind the ears of a related animal a few days ago) and keystone predators. The fact is that they are capable of damaging humans and livestock. The two must be balanced.
I happen to like wolves (I even scratched behind the ears of a related animal a few days ago) and keystone predators. The fact is that they are capable of damaging humans and livestock. The two must be balanced.
There is always a risk from wild animals, even squirrels. In fact you are more likely to be injured by a squirrel, skunk, deer or raccoon than a wolf. You balance that risk by being smart.
Or at least smarter than the critter. A questionable characteristic of many humans. We can be kind and chalk some situations up to inexperience, but there are others that defy the presence of brain stem activity.
A neighbor's German Shepherd got loose once and terrorized me...
I was out on a jog today and was terrorized by someone's Labradoodle being walked. I think he was trying to bite when he got my hands wet.
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