crazy animal encounters

last week a live shrimp jumped on my bodyboard flipped once and twice and jumped off

 

#mantisshrimp

 

Bahahahahahahaha! Oh shit that’s fuckin awesome

“NO TUBE FOR YOU! One WEEK!”

 

I finally got to see some crocodiles in the wild on Saturday. I've seen thousands of alligators but crocs are far less common and live in only a few isolated places in Florida. I found three of them in the canal by the marina at Flamingo in Everglades National Park. Not really a crazy encounter as I was safe on land but I thought it was cool.

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...an-leaps-massive-humpback-whale-cut-free.html

Sam is a real-deal superhero.


The whale apparently understood they were trying to save it and calmed down, allowing Sam to cut the rope with a knife.

After the three hour battle, the whale swam free.

'This is going to sound super crazy,' Nicholas said, 'but when the coastguard told us there was nothing else we could do, just let it be, I turned up the volume really loud on the VHF radio and yelled at the whale and told him to listen, and no one else was coming for him, and we're his only hope, and he better lay still and let us do this or else he's going to die. And this is going to sound super crazy but he did.'

 

^that's cool.

I meant to post on here. The other day I was hunting from a tree stand (I know not many on here care about hunting but this was cool). The sun was setting and the moon was rising and I was being super still and quiet and just zoning out on nature.

Out of nowhere, an owl (bluish gray) landed on my arm and his wing hit me in the back of the head as he landed. I immediately jerked my arm as he was gripping my arm and I think I scared him as much as he did me. He flew to a limb 15 yards away with his back to me and did the owl head turn and looked back at me like what the hell are you...he flew off and my heart was pounding and I sorta laughed out loud, like did that just happen. Crazy!

 

Similar thing happened to me yesterday, but with a praying mantice. Im working up on the roof of a country club. Slow day so i was actually just laying around. Found this praying mantice, all cold and not moving, so i picked him up and put him into the sunlight. Im sitting there just watching him. He's warming up and begins moving. Another bug was near by and i was cheering him on to eat. He was moving all slow. Then i got a bit rude. "Hurry the eff up man i don't got all day here. I want to see you attack that thing ya eff". .....no joke the second the words left my mouth the praying mantice just slowly turned his head and stares at me..."i apologize I'll be on my way now"


Yeah i guess it's not that similar to your story. But whatever

 

That's awesome. I had a Great Horned Owl fly right at my face once when I was in a tree stand. I was all camo from head to toe except for my eyes. Maybe he saw my eyes as prey? He veered away at the last minute but he was a big un. That was an almost pants-crapping moment.

 

That's friggen awesome... Nothing better than sitting in the woods or on a duck blind at sunrise and sunset. So quiet and you're senses on overdrive. That must have scared the crap out of you!

 

In high school, was canoeing on the Farmington R. with a classmate / buddy of mine from Rhody. Warm spring day, naturally we didn't bring drinking water. Beached the canoe, walked a bit, saw a farmhouse up the hill on the other side of a split rail fenced field.

I said I'll go for water for us, you watch the canoe. Cool. I hop the fence & start trudging up through the field. Couple cows lazing around. I get another few yards up the hill & I see a huge bull staring at me just up the rise in the field.

I stop. His tail goes up, starts flicking. I wasn't raised anywhere near a farm, but I knew damn well what that meant.

He does the snorting thing, kinda bouncing his head around, tail flicking & whipsawing. By now, I'm backpedaling, keeping him in view. Then he lowers his head.

And I turn & full-on sprint for that split rail fence, which now seemed like a long, long ways away. I'm hauling ass down the rise, the bull is chasing me, my buddy comes into view lounging on the fence as I'm headed his way full-tilt-boogie.

I can hear the bull, he's getting closer, and my buddy is yelling, "run! run! you gotta go faster, faster, hurry, fukkkkkk!!" as he's backing away from the fence on the other side with a terrible look on his face & I yell, "throw rocks!" but of course he doesn't, and I can literally feel the bull pounding towards me & I just launched into a wide receiver full-horizontal-body sail over the fence as the bull threw on the brakes & circled by the fence, snorting & pawing & bigly, having proved without a friggin doubt whose field that was.

I lay in the dirt for awhile, heaving. My buddy meanwhile is laughing so hard the tears are streaming down his face. Was a great day, actually

 

Duck blind - +1

Mid october bow hunt, prime time, perfectly still woods, the smells of leaves and that hush when your at 10 senses wise. Nodded off for a minute and woke up to two chickadees perched on the arrow and one one my arm. Sleeping. Free hand, took the booger picker finger and made a “branch” and nudged the one on the arm - and the little guy popped on finger! Moved him super slow to branch and he did the same again... blew my mind. The two on the arrow did the same thing when I tried using the arrow to lift them, just popped onto the branch i reached. Pretty awesome. Getting out of the stand without rousing them was interesting though - especially when it’s dark hahaha.

Old man told me one muzzle loader season that during a good snow storm, in his ground blind a yearling doe came into the hide and looked at him, sniffed and then curled up into it with the guy sitting right next to her. He let her fall alseep and the left. Now THAT was something.
Guy looked like Uncle Jessy on the Dukes lol... but he had history - you could see it in his face.

 

Similar thing happened to me years ago with a young hummingbird. I had a red matchbook in my hand. The bird landed on my finger and began pecking at the matchbook. The little thing was so light - like a cotton ball

 

Once me and a buddy were picking shrooms and the cows started to come towards us, and a couple bulls with horns were trying to flank us. We were 16 maybe 17 years old. Now the cow field is a Moose Lodge and a Shriner's Temple side by side.

The bulls were coming at us kinda steady from each side, and me and Hubie started to jump up and down and make noises like chimpanzees, and we stopped them in their tracks. Then we got some balls and chased them - they turned tail and we ran the whole herd off and got mad amounts of shrooms and that is a whole nother story

 

So I got bit by a dog today. True.

It was small and choppy, so I decided to do a bike ride for health porpoises. There is a cool FIND (Florida Inland Navigation District) park near by, with a nice dog park, with fenced enclosure for big dogs and another for small dogs.

It's mostly flat terrain here in South Florida, but this place is on the Intracoastal Waterway and has hilly terrain and some ancient rusty fitness stations to do pull ups and stuff scattered about the elevated dunes. Cool workout .... so I thought.

I rode up the trail, and there were a few dogs and their clueless owners sitting outside the fenced in confines of the dog park enjoying the fall air, and as I rode up the hill the dogs started to chase me. I rode up the hill trying to ignore them, one of them, a Golden, took a nip at my calf and broke skin. (Golden Retrievers have the worst bite damage of any dog, he wasn't trying to hurt me, he was just being a shithead).

I got off the bike (no gears - just a beach cruiser) and yelled at the dogs - their were four big ones - and then at the owners - cussed them out - and looked at my calf to assess the damages. No biggie, just a couple mini tooth marks, a bit of blood, but it was just a nip.

The owner comes up to me after I yelled FUCK! a couple times and he apologized, I accepted it and told him to control his dog. When I got home my wife wanted me to call the cops, but I didn't want to put the dog through the process.

If they quarantined the owner I'd have called the PO PO. I'm going back on my bike next week, and if Idiot doesn't have his dog leashed, at a dog park, outside the fence, then there will be issues. If I was a kid, it could have been bad.

WTF!

I put shaving cream on my lips and told my wife I felt kinda rabid, she's not happy (swear to God, can't make this shit up)

 

That's awesome. Owls are super cool animal

 

Agreed
Owls are perfectly designed hunting creatures.
I like reading up on them - - they’re unbelievable

 

Owl energy is "crazy" energy for many Native Americans. The Coyote is the trickster, the Owl is not to be messed with.

 

I took this last year. ^

 

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