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I’m not talking about deers or honey bees. How about wolves, mountain lions, rattlesnakes, black and brown bears. Are there sizable populations of dangerous animals within certain metro areas? Please include any wildlife that can harm and potentially kill a human.
The San Francisco Bay area regularly sees coyotes and mountain lions in inhabited areas. I'm told that they get close to housing and the parks in the city now because drought has driven them out of the forested areas further out. Sounds reasonable to me.
Yes... Right where I live... Tampa Bay area. LOTS of large alligators. Poisonous snakes. Coyotes (although these aren't known to be aggressive towards humans...)
There is very little danger from wildlife. Except maybe in the deep south where there is risk from poisonous snakes and a slight risk of an alligator encounter that goes badly.
There are coyote wolf hybrids in NYC city limits (affectionately known as Coywolves).
While not in the city proper, there are black bears immediately north in westchester, and across the GWB from Manhattan. I guess theoretically a bear could wander into the city, though that would be highly rare.
Ditto for rattlesnakes. They’re up in the Hudson Valley maybe 15 miles north of the Bronx.
There are bull and great white sharks in the coastal waters of NYC, inclusive of ocean within city limits.
Bobcats in the suburbs including immediately north of the Bronx in Westchester.
No mountain lions nearby unfortunately, but there are rumors that a few transient lions may pass through the Catskills from time to time.
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In the Seattle area, it's not unheard of to see black bears as far west as Bellevue (immediately east of the city, not close to the Cascades)
We're near Bellevue in Sammamish, and regularly see deer, raccoons, rabbits, opossums, coyotes and bobcats in our yard, or catch them on our cameras, though most opossums are seen dead in the roads. So far no bears on our property, but I have seen them within a few blocks of our house. We leave them alone and they leave us alone. In our city of 65,000 I have never heard of anyone being attacked by an animal other than a rare dog bite, but many a cat or small dog has gone missing. Those could have also been the bald eagles.
Yes... Right where I live... Tampa Bay area. LOTS of large alligators. Poisonous snakes. Coyotes (although these aren't known to be aggressive towards humans...)
A mountain lion was found roaming a Boulder neighborhood a while back.
Plenty of gators in New Orleans area bayous and waterways as well as smakes like cotton mouths and blue runners. There are also black widows and banana spiders, likely all over the south.
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