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Your post is fine.
However as Huesers is the news.group net.polar-bear or net.polar.bear or
net.bear.polar, this list is more for the designations of personal
imaginations, if you will, which you declare, either via email to me to
increment panel 1 (and a certain degree of anonymity or not),
or posting to the group (but I have to see if panel 1 is to be modified).
That is for the people who declared species on panel 1.
Now, you can declare an existing species (multiple individuals) or any
new one. It's no biggie as a reflection of you or anyone else.
>On Aug 25, 2:51=A0pm, eug...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Eugene Miya) wrote:
>> Hey Ed, the CA Auto Club did a short life list of 3 of their writers
>> giving 4 species each of must see animals. =A0Your net.species made the
>> cover (Churchill branch of the family, a nice photo).
>>
>> Polar Bear
>
>Only in the zoo. One day, maybe.
I typically miss them by days or a few miles. This year was close to
Prudhoe.
>> condor
>Web cams.
Mt. Pinos or Sespe creek.
>> elephant seal
>
>Ok, there was some kind of critter swimming along in the Pacific
>when I visited San Diego. But it was about 100 meters away,
>mostly down, and in the ocean, so I'm not sure exactly what
>it was. It seemed to be about 3 meters long, and it sure looked
>like the critters in the San Diego zoo.
Ano Nuevo.
>> moose
>
>Any day now. My hiking of the Bruce Trail has me in moose
>country. It helps keeps me alert.
Fairbanks Intl. Air****t, Los Anchorage, etc. Make certain they are
majestic
(another inside joke).
>> gray whale
>
>Some day, maybe.
San Ignacio preferably Jan.-March closer to March as they are
friendliest. Not that they are a big highlight of my life.
Oh, I did see 3 carved up in Barrow and next time I will bring some meat
back.
>> roosevelt elk
>
>I've seen elk, but I'm not sure what species they were. They were
>on the roadside in Banff. Whatever they were, I called them
>road elk, because they were at the same spot every day for
>a week, getting handouts from stupid tourists.
Ditto elk.
Just another ungulate to me.
>> sandhill crane
>
>Not even sure I've seen these in the zoo. I have seen wild crane
>a couple times, just no sure what kind they were.
Ditto.
Just another carbon based life form.
>> gray wolf
>I've seen wild wolves, from quite a distance.
Friend owned one. Considering buying another. She keeps the pelt.
>> bald eagle
>Only on web cams and at the zoo.
All over the place in AK.
CSAA recommended N of Klamath Falls of US97.
>> grizzly bear
>
>Momma griz and her two cubs were about 1000 feet further
>down the mountain. With a fairly vertical cliff between us
>and them. It was fine with me that they were that far away.
>Even at that distance they looked hungry.
I've not seen one in a few years. The best way to see them is from the
air in a small plane.
>> orca
>Someday maybe.
A month ago near Seward.
Some years back with one of the women from the news group off Orcas
island (they were sleeping).
>> bighorn sheep
>
>Closest I've seen to that are these critters that hang around
>near Banff. They look like mouflon, but I'm not sure what their
>correct name is. I called them road goats, again because
>they hung out on the same patch of roadside for days, waiting
>for handouts from tourists.
Just driving on the White Mtn. road. Right next to us.
Well different species as well. Dall sheep in AK.
>Missing from the list:
>- Various other species of deer and similar critters. White tales,
> those miniature deer from the Florida keys, reindeer. I've come
> face-to-face with white tales a few times. Always a thrill.
Oh Galen, you may be able to sell one
of your bear-pruf tents.
FL Keys deer.
Most netters are net.ungulates. Just grazers.
>- Big cats: mountain lions, lynx, cougar, etc. Met a lynx on the
> trail one day. He looked at me, I looked at him, we both froze
> for about 3 seconds. Then he went into the brush at warp 90.
Not too big. The big ones are tigers and African lions.
I've seen a couple of MLs but you have to go specifically to look for
them otherwise they are very private. Shasta and near Fresno in the
foothills.
>- Foxes, coyotes, and various other not-quite-so-big dog-like
> hunting critters. I've met foxes on the trail a few times.
Yeah, seen some number. Arctic foxes are nice.
>- Coy dogs and other half breeds like wolf-shepherd crosses.
> Met a couple coy dogs in New Mexico. Took me a minute
> to work out what I was looking at, and why it was so shy
> but unafraid at the same time. Coy dog is the ideal name.
>- Various reptiles: From diamondbacks and sidewinders, to
> corn s****s and garter s****s, to lizards, to chameleons,
> to crocs and gators. Met rattle s****s on the trail a few times.
> Always a thrill.
Oh yes. Have photos.
>- ****cupine. Takes a bit to realize what this odd looking critter is.
Had to clean our of our outhouses full of quills.
>- Really big lake/river fish, like a monster Mississipi catfish.
Sturgeon.
Salmon in the 20-50 lbs range (getting rarer).
>- Skunk, though hope that it's a friendly encounter. There's a
> skunk who comes into my yard fairly frequently. Very pretty.
Common. Many road kill.
>- Owls of various kinds. Woke up about 3AM one moring.
> Looked out the window to try to figure out what the noise was.
> Came face to face with a great horned owl who was perched
> on the very tip-top of the cedar tree growing in the yard.
> He was about 5 meters away.
Many large to small. Had a large one in AK. Small ones around work.
>And this basically does not even get me out of North America.
>Going a little afield, other critters I'd like to see:
>- Dingo dogs.
>- Kangaroos.
>- Kiwis.
>- Koalas.
>- Platypus.
The above require .nz and .au travel ro zoos.
However the motion picture industry has special reserves with various
species used in film.
>- Pandas.
I won't give away Tropic Thunder.
>- Lions.
>- Tigers.
>- Elephants.
>- A really big annaconda. A really big cobra.
Well various zoos. Speaking of which SF killed one of their tigers.
A friend's grand daughter is a trainer at a theme park.
>This is a good game. I know there's lots I've missed.
Only works with good trolling and bait.
It's a little different from the REI member number thread and other
recurring threads.
It's largely a land bias mostly in the N hemisphere (except your special
bits in Oz, NZ, and Africa).
I can think of leopards and leopard shark breeding grounds.
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