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In reply to the discussion: What are some of the coolest animals you've seen in the wild? [View all]bluesbassman
(19,309 posts)28. Had a full grown bobcat jump on the hood of my Jeep.
Up in the Los Padres out of Carmel Valley. We we driving along a fire road on a hillside. The bobcat jumped from the high side and landed right on the hood. We were crawling along so it was pretty stable and the bobcat landed perfectly dead center on the hood. He sat there for a few seconds looking right at us through the windshield, then bounded off down the slope. My buddy and I just sat there grinning.
The other cool thing we saw up there was a tarantula migration. There were dozens of them on a road we were walking near dusk. Pretty trippy to see that many at once cruising down the road.
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Mountain goats in Lake Louise. Saw a bear in the woods of Quebec as a kid. Saw a moose on a canoe
applegrove
Apr 2012
#5
Saw a blue whale when we were burying my dad at sea (that's what all the whale watching
Flaxbee
Apr 2012
#6
When I was in Central America, I opened my big shutter window, and a guy had a three
crunch60
Apr 2012
#8
you can see bald eagles every day in winter breeding season in southeast louisiana
pitohui
Apr 2012
#88
We have a family of pileated woodpeckers in our backyard. They had a baby last year
GOPonziconz
Apr 2012
#80
I saw about five of these in a tree in Costa Rica one time ... Quetzal birds:
Arugula Latte
Apr 2012
#41
I like animals that cross that line and begin to accept you as part of the landscape.
Baitball Blogger
Apr 2012
#46
Big red kangaroos in full flight...just amazing...and so seemingly effortless
SwissTony
Apr 2012
#70
I saw a Kori Bustard in Namibia. It made me think of a pteroactyl and it's the largest flying bird
GOPonziconz
Apr 2012
#78