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Alligator or crocodile more than 8 feet long. | 69 | 47.59% | |
American bison | 99 | 68.28% | |
Badger | 58 | 40.00% | |
Beaded lizard | 19 | 13.10% | |
Bear (black) | 88 | 60.69% | |
Bear (brown, grizzly, or polar) | 52 | 35.86% | |
Beaver | 112 | 77.24% | |
Bighorrn sheep or Dall sheep | 74 | 51.03% | |
Black widow spider | 91 | 62.76% | |
Bobcat (the animal, not the backhoe) | 79 | 54.48% | |
Brown recluse spider | 82 | 56.55% | |
Caribou | 29 | 20.00% | |
Coyote | 126 | 86.90% | |
Eagle (Any type) | 133 | 91.72% | |
Elk | 89 | 61.38% | |
Ermine, stoat, or weasel | 44 | 30.34% | |
Gila monster | 11 | 7.59% | |
Lynx | 12 | 8.28% | |
Moose | 73 | 50.34% | |
Mountain goat | 73 | 50.34% | |
Mountain lion | 40 | 27.59% | |
Non-shark fish more than eight feet long | 38 | 26.21% | |
Otter (the animal, not the CP guy) | 68 | 46.90% | |
Otter (the CP guy, not the animal) | 6 | 4.14% | |
Peccary or javelina | 14 | 9.66% | |
Porcupine | 73 | 50.34% | |
Pronghorn | 40 | 27.59% | |
Rattlesnake | 91 | 62.76% | |
Scorpion | 81 | 55.86% | |
Shark more than eight feet long | 25 | 17.24% | |
Snake more than 10 feet long (other than rattlesnake) | 20 | 13.79% | |
Tarantula | 63 | 43.45% | |
Walrus | 16 | 11.03% | |
Water moccasin/cottonmouth or copperhead | 91 | 62.76% | |
Whale (any species other than orca) | 56 | 38.62% | |
Whale (orca) | 21 | 14.48% | |
Wild boar (or sow) | 45 | 31.03% | |
Wolf | 42 | 28.97% | |
Wolverine (the animal, not the comic book guy) | 10 | 6.90% | |
I have seen none of these creatures | 0 | 0% | |
I am unable to discern between these species. I'm from the city. | 2 | 1.38% | |
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07-11-2018, 07:20 AM | #1 |
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I agree, I counted 23. I've been 3' from a black bear twice and 20 yards from a grizzly twice. I don't want to do either again. Last weekend, my buddy and I almost hit a moose on our motorcycles. They blend in with night pretty good until you're right on them.
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07-11-2018, 07:37 AM | #2 | |
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A moose on a narrow trail on snow machines is sketchier for me than a black bear. The most nervous I have been was walking up on a fresh cougar kill while elk hunting. I knew it was within 50 yards of me and I couldn't see it. The doe was still warm and the blood wasn't coagulated yet. Definitely a gtfo moment. |
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07-11-2018, 08:01 AM | #3 |
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When I tracked.and climbed to the summit of West Spanish Peak in Colorado high up in the mountains their varmints called Marmot. They are cool little critters maybe size of racoon but much nicer.
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07-11-2018, 12:56 PM | #4 | |
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May is a bad month to see cows up close because they have usually just dropped calves and they are super aggressive. An exchange student got stomped to death a few years ago because he walked out of the back of the college library. The back door went to a secluded parking lot and there was a moose with her newborn calf. Mom was on one side of the steps and the baby was on the other side of the steps. He didn't see them or didn't realize it or something but hit the bottom of a short set of steps and got between them. She stomped him to death in Anchorage so it wasn't even out in the middle of nowhere. Bulls are rutting in September/October and are thus more aggressive then. I saw a moose walking down the middle of a highway in early September on year. Cars were backed up while this moose just stood in the middle of the road. Massive rack and you could tell he just did not give a ****. It was actually pretty impressive. I have a friend who was driving up to a cabin to do some moose hunting with some people he knew. They had 4 wheelers at the cabin. The cabin was in the middle of the woods off an old logging road and they were in one guy's Ford mini-van. This was about 15 years ago or so. They're driving down this logging road in the middle of nowhere and this huge bull moose steps out in front of them. He didn't take kindly to their proximity so he charged. Driver couldn't stop and reverse in time and the moose rammed the front of the car with his front tines. Went right into the radiator. Once he had the radiator speared, he turned his head and put the minivan on its side. He stepped back and snorted and watched the minivan steam and die. He then went off into the woods. Rode up a frozen lake one year on a snow machine after a huge snowstorm. We rounded an island and on the lee side of the island were several moose bedded down in the snow. We stopped quickly but we were quite close to them. They sighed and trudged off, snow deeper than their chest. One clearly did not want to move even though my friend was very close. When the moose didn't move, he leaned off his snow machine and petted it on the nose. That was the final straw and it got up and followed the path cut by its friends and trudged away. Biggest GTFO moment for me was chasing brown bears out of my yard and boat one night. I was holding a rifle but also had a flash light in my left hand (Didn't have a rifle with a tactical flashlight at the time). We lived on a lake. It was 9/10/01 and this was about 10:00 at night. I was scheduled to start a trial the next day and had come home late to see the bear in our yard. It ran down to the beach area. We'd seen it a couple of times over the previous few days. My kids were much younger then and I did not want a bear around. So I grabbed the rifle and flashlight and went after it. Saw the bear in my boat. (Boat was an 18' Lund with a kicker pulled up onto the shore). His head was down so he was smelling the fish that I'd caught the previous weekend. He saw my flashlight and looked up at me. He was more curious than aggressive but if you want to talk about a time when your butt puckers, it would be when a brown bear is looking right at you. He stared at me for a bit. Probably 3-4 seconds. Felt like a few months. I fired the rifle into the air.* He took off at the sound and I did not see him again. * I know this is typically not advisable but I didn't aim straight up. I aimed at about a 45 degree angle. I knew that there was nothing out there so I was not ignoring gun safety. |
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07-10-2018, 10:24 PM | #5 |
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Fairly common in Texas, but armadillos are fascinating critters, every time I see one I'm amazed. Little tanks that act like giant insects scuttling around. People hit them on the highways all the time, thatd do some serious damage because they are so dense.
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07-11-2018, 07:30 AM | #6 |
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Alligator Bobcat Wild Boar Coyote Water Moccasin Blue Herons Egrets Osprey Possum Also: Dolphins, Manatees New England Porcupine Black bear, Maine Moose, Maine Whale Fish Iowa Red Fox Deer South Dakota American Bison Prairie dogs Pacific Northwest Otter, also elsewhere Seals Orca Swiss Alps Mountain goats in Alps England Sheep Egypt Camel Walrus- Mistake Click. Think saw it in a zoo. Oops! Also bats. Think it was in Missouri but have seen in other places too. |
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07-11-2018, 09:44 AM | #7 |
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Lots of those but I'll note gila monster as I'm guessing not many have seen that one.
I am dissapoint that javalina did not make the list.
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07-11-2018, 09:45 AM | #8 |
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How dare you doubt my javelina awareness.
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07-11-2018, 11:20 AM | #9 |
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I didn't mean to judge you.
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07-11-2018, 01:09 PM | #11 |
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I had no idea a javelina was a peccary.
Apologies. God as my witness I thought turkeys could fly.
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So far just rabbits, Deer, squirrels and Kathy Bates.
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