The Animals Kingdom (6/10)
Granted, when it comes to dangerous and weird animals, Australia is probably number one (I will never forget driving at dusk in Alice Spring… bloody kangaroos!). But Canada, with its huge land mass and small population density, also has a great wildlife.
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Granted, I don’t get to see bears everyday, which is all in all probably a good thing. I mean, it’s not like they look like Winnie The Pooh — or so I’ve been told.
However, despite living in Ottawa’s close suburb, I get to see a bunch of animals on a daily basis. Rabbits run around the house and scare me when I go out for my last smoke at night. Squirrels are cute animals but they drive us nuts (no pun intended) in the summer, when they dig in potted plant and cause power outage by chewing on power lines (seriously). Raccoons are cute but also clever and persistent, and in residential and urban areas they can be considered as pest. They can open garbage cans with their hands and feast before the garbage truck even has a chance to come… Finally, skunks are best known for their strong odor secreted if frightened or disturbed. We usually don’t get too close to them in case of… but they don’t mind getting close to us!
Quite a few animals became Canadian symbols. The beaver, for example, which is on the 5¢ coin. Lots of places also bear the name of an animal: the cities “Moose jaw”, “Whitehorse” or “Goose Lake” for example. And generally speaking, Canadian are quite proud of their wilderness and fauna. A true animal kingdom, I’m telling ya!
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Hi Zhu,
My first time here and the site looks cozy and friendly. So you’re looking for a comrade to widen your left wing liberal base? Well, it has now grown by 100%. There’s two of us.
Speaking of weird animals, the most I’ve seen in a single place is a little over 300 of these weird creatures, and it’s close to where you’re coming from — the US Congress.
–Durano, done!
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Well, we do have a lot of exotic human-type animals, but I don’t know if those count. No thanks, I think I’ll stick to the spiders.
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Hey did you know N America seems to have literally x2 the variety of wildlife as Northern Europe… almost everything we have you seem to have… loads of other things like coyotes, racoons, skunxx, bears, wolves etc etc…
btw: do you have foxes where you are? I mean: do you get them at all? Or just sometimes? Someone sent a real odd comment back from America I think about “desperate” foxes being forced into British towns… after a post where I mentioned them…
foxes aren’t “forced” into towns they love it there… very often you’ll see this thing that looks just like a red dog… very cute and unafraid either stalking down the street or just sitting in next door’s front garden looking at me… one time I saw two babies frolicking at 6am in my back garden… excellent stuff!
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The thing I remember most about visiting Canada was the black Squirrels. We have red and grey squirrels, but I had never seen a black one until visiting Stanley Park in Vancouver.
Awwwww, I wanna go back to Canada sooooo badly!!!!!!!!
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