What’s the coolest animal you’ve seen in the wild?

Bonnie said:
Have had feral peacocks visit our Texas yard over the years .... three at one time one Saturday morning ...quite a sight

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Stunning Birds.
Where I live in Western Australia the is a place called Pinjarra.
Just outside Pinjarra is a accommodation place called Fairbridge Village.
It was opened in 1912 as a Farm School form migrant children.
Peacocks were brought with the owners and have been there ever since.
 
Bretrick said:
Stunning Birds.
Where I live in Western Australia the is a place called Pinjarra.
Just outside Pinjarra is a accommodation place called Fairbridge Village.
It was opened in 1912 as a Farm School form migrant children.
Peacocks were brought with the owners and have been there ever since.
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Had a quarter acre garden, I never did anything in moderation. Every morning I would come out and see 15 -20 of my neighbor's flock walking along between the rows, figured out they were feeding on the plant pests, never destroyed a single plant. They kept my garden the talk of the town. Their droppings looked like large Hersey kisses.
 

What’s the coolest animal you’ve seen in the wild?​


I've seen many a bear, some wolves, bobcats, cougar, others.

But, the coolest;
An elk
Standing proudly on a knoll at the edge of of the road (Coastal Cascade Range)
Sunrise
Foggy
Steam from his flared nostrils

I pulled over
Watched
My Nikon was in my other rig


Then there's the baldy that camped in a tree top near our cabin for three days;

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The sweetest;
My little cabin buddy

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Although there are many animals that live in cold climates, well below freezing 32F, they are warm blooded mammals as living animals cannot live where body temperatures are below freezing ice. Thus the coolest animals I regularly encounter are fish like this golden trout in a snow melt stream above 10,000 feet in the Sierra Nevada. Since the water temperature was just a bit above freezing, the cold blooded fish had to be the same temperature thus is the coolest animal. Note after taking a quick photo, let the frightened little creature live another day.
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David777 said:
Although there are many animals that live in cold climates, well below freezing 32F, they are warm blooded mammals as living animals cannot live where body temperatures are below freezing ice. Thus the coolest animals I regularly encounter are fish like this golden trout in a snow melt stream above 10,000 feet in the Sierra Nevada. Since the water temperature was just a bit above freezing, the cold blooded fish had to be the same temperature thus is the coolest animal. Note after taking a quick photo, let the frightened little creature live another day.
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I bet they are really tasty :love:
 
My first husband was a deer hunter and I would follow him in the canyons of south Texas and mountains of Colorado with a camera....I've seen eagles, deer, elk and wild turkeys. And while on an Alaskan cruise, whale.
 
That's like asking me my favorite child or what's the most beautiful ecosystem/environment. They all have their beauty and charms!

Whether it's a lizard on a rock, or a family of deer chowing down on our grasses, or anything between size of any branch of the evolutionary tree i always feel i've gotten a gift when i can observe any of them for a bit.
 
Murrmurr said:
I've seen a number of cool undersea animals. Too cool to pick the coolest. Seals are pretty cool underwater. They follow you around and want to play. It was super cool seeing a seahorse called a Marine Dragon, because seeing one is kind of rare. I'd have to say the coolest land animal I've ever seen was a huge silver and gray wolf. So pretty and formidable-looking.
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Lived on west coast of Florida my first decade of life. Was swimming by at age 1 year. We lived on a river front property. And i was in the water as much as possible. We also would take the boat out to the Gulf, anchor off barrier islands. In those days the water so clear.

I'd free dive. Loved swimming around kelp 'forests' especially but the open sea floor too, observing all the sea critters. My older sisters would tire of it before me, but they were tasked with watching me when i was swimming. In those clear gulf waters they could get away with doing that from the boat. Once i was climbing the ladder out of the water and two of them were giggling. When i asked what was funny they pointed at bottom of ladder. Two small pilot fish were stationed there. One sister said they followed me all the way from the kelp. 20 minutes later they were still there. Sister said they must have mistaken me for the large fish they often form symbiotic relations with.
 
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feywon said:
Lived on west coast of Florida my first decade of life. Was swimming by at age 1 year. We lived on a river front property. And i was in the water as much as possible. We also would take the boat our to the Gulf, anchor off barrier islands. In those days the water so clear.

I'd free dive. Loved swimming around kelp 'forests' especially but the open sea floor too, observing all the sea critters. My older sisters would tire of it before me, but they were tasked with watching me when i was swimming. In those clear gulf waters they could get away with doing that from the boat. Once i was climbing the ladder out of the water and two of them were giggling. When i asked what was funny they pointed at bottom of ladder. Two small pilot fish were stationed there. One sister said they followed me all the way from the kelp. 20 minutes later they were still there. Sistwr said they must have mistaken me for the large fish they often form symbiotic relations with.
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That makes sense because you were small / the size of a large fish.

Fortunately for you, marine life in warmer waters have plenty prey, so there aren't as many bitey critters there than in colder and more isolated waters. But I think it can be said that's not the case anymore thanks to pollution, changing currents, and invasive species.
 
Murrmurr said:
That makes sense because you were small / the size of a large fish.

Fortunately for you, marine life in warmer waters have plenty prey, so there aren't as many bitey critters there than in colder and more isolated waters. But I think it can be said that's not the case anymore thanks to pollution, changing currents, and invasive species.
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True! Most everywhere...waters, forests, even once pleasant tourist destinations. When we went to my Navy son's retirement ceremony at Pearl Harbor. i of course wanted to show the kids some of my old favorite places on the Island. Some were gone, some changed drastically.

Joni Mitchell's 'Big Yellow Taxi' with the lyric 'They paved paradise and put up a parking lot' saw how things were going there.
 
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