What is the coolest wildlife or nature experience you have had in North America?

Question

I live in Canada and have been all over the country. I have also spent some time in the United States. I find that the North American wildlife is pretty diverse and beautiful, lots of people think that in order to have amazing wildlife encounters you have to go on Safari, what is your coolest experience?

Answer 1

Well, living in Canada, I have had plenty!! My most memorable experience has to be the Canadian Red Wolves...
My best friends Dad has some property behind his house and my Moms house, it is a beautiful open field surrounded by trees and mountains. Well, my friend and her Dad had been working down there cutting wood on a sawmill to make a fence, and after a while they would see these "brush wolves" as they called them and thier cubs. My friend told me about it and I was very interested to identify whether they were coyotes or wolves, I didnt get down there that fall though so I had to wait until next year..well sure enough they were there again and they had gotten very accustomed to her Dad who took his draft horses down there all of the time and they would come out and lay around stretching and yawning and watching for rodents stirred up by the horses hooves (the horses I might add were not afraid as the wolves never threatened them or the man) My friend was able to film them from about 10 feet away and show me a tape of about 7-8 wolves laying around and basically relaxing while her Dad did work down at the property..As soon as I saw the tape I knew they were not coyotes and they were not Grey Wolves, but I wasnt quite sure what they were. They all had cinammon behind the ears and were bigger than coyotes and smaller than grey wolves, and they almost looked like dogs!! I was so excited to go and see them so finally I got to go down there, unfortunately the wolves are only accustomed to her Dad and did not come really close but rather popped in and out of the woods to see if we were a threat, still I got to see them with the zoom on my video camera and I was able to identify from the tracks that they are Red Wolves, ...like the ones being studied by the Theberges in Algonquin Park, we also got to see some holes they had dug and from the tiny tracks mixed with the big ones we knew this was a rendezvous site for thier half-grown pups in the fall. The second time we went down there is what I will never forget for as long as I live, they came out much closer than before and we got to film them again, but as it was dusk we started to howl to draw them out and they answered...in full chorus!! from only about 300-400 feet away it sounded like we were in the middle of the pack and the sound echoed off the mountains all around and I could see the wolves through the trees on the side of the mountain howling as they climbed to the top once they got to the top they stopped howling but one wolf layed on a boulder at the edge of the mountain and watched us till dark... It was incredible and we got it all on film, I still watch it now and then with the sound cranked up, and I will never forget as long as I live the day I got to howl practically in the midst of a pack of wild canids! I also got a piece of wolf fur from off of the fence nearby where one of thier trails went under (into a cattle field I might add where they have never bothered the cows!).

Answer 2

Although Stone Mountain has become a tourist attraction, I've been going their since 1968 when there were less people.

The wildlife is abundant on the mountain top and the hiking trails. There are small fairy shrimp inhabiting small tidal pools on the top of the mountain. These shrimp are found no where else on the planet, as are the Confederate yellow daisies that bloom in the late summer. I believe the fairy shrimp are on the endangered list.

There are foxes, many species of birds, red-tailed hawks, and goats as well. I don't really care for the tourist attractions, but viewing the wildlife is always exciting to me and even though I've lost count of the number of times that I have been there....visiting each time is a new experience and I see something that I have not noticed before.

http://ngeorgia.com/mountains/stonemountainnh.html

Answer 3

i live in indiana and dont get out much, its sad that i did not see much wildlife in a place thats half trees, i see pawprints and hoofprints all the time, but the pollution situation is BAD here (i learned in science class that a hefty percentage of our waterways in indiana are too polluted for human contact, i think it was because of the old sewage system overflowing) the coolest experience was when i saw a muskrat crawl into the sewer, strange though, i go past that place every day and i never saw it again, maybe the sewage killed it. or it could have been when my family didnt mow the lawn for a couple of weeks or use fertilizer and when the grass grew over 1/2 ft. every day, at lest 7 rabbits or hares hopped trough my lawn it was fun to watch them untill the neghbors started complaining and we had to mow the lawn. thats about as exciting as it gets (pretty pathetic huh?). i also saw some deer when i visited my cousin in west virginia.

Answer 4

In the Brooklyn Zoo in New York City, where I've seen tons of exotic animals from all around the world, like... lions, tigers, and bears ...oh my!! Also, from my house where I've seen all the following animals upclose (in my yard) in southeastern Massachusetts, USA: (a family of) deer, raccoons, garden snakes, possums, squirrels, bluejays, robins, Canadian geese, terrapins, muskrats, stray cats & dogs, skunks, etc. What memory I am most fond of besides my brother holding a long garden snake to my face about a week ago; it is that I had the chance to see a family of deer in my backyard looking straight at me while I was looking out my bedroom window. I kept looking at them as they did to me for several minutes before they ran off in the woods near my house. Also, lastyear I had my city put up geese crossing road signs at a very busy intersection near my house. I love to appreciate nature and wildlife, that is a reason why I recycle!

Answer 5

Seeing Black Bear in the Sierra Nevada (CA), and along the Alaska Highway. Seeing Arctic Fox in the Arctic (where else!) Seeing a Great Gray Owl on a roadside sign on the Alaska Highway. Seeing a bobcat and her baby while out hiking.

Answer 6

The coolest thing I've experienced (ok I have two things) is being up at my uncle's cottage and seeing the loons in the morning, and being in BC with my grandparents and seeing a black bear on the road up in the mountains, from the truck of course.

Answer 7

Driving on the edge of the Badlands in South Dakota (grassy plain on one side, surface of the moon-like on the other) I had to come to a complete halt because there was a herd of 30-40 animals in front of me. At first, it looked like baby deer -- but I realized that there were no grown-up deer with them. Then I realized that they were wapiti (prong-horned antelope). It was an amazing sight.

Answer 8

I was raised in Nothern Idaho coolest experience was surviving in the mountains for two weeks with only a pocket knife to start with.

Answer 9

mine was watching the birth of a whitetail deers fawn.i stumbled upon the encounter by accident but it was the coolest thing i ever experienced in the wild.i live in pa, usa.it was near my home in central pa that i witnessed this amazing thing.

Answer 10

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Fellow classmate fell in the Purana tank and lost three fingers..."I'm kidding ,I'm kidding!"