What's your closest encounter with wildlife?
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Re: What's your closest encounter with wildlife?
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That must have been a harrowing experience! I would have been in a panic.AnanyaAk wrote:My closest encounter with the wild would be in a South African Sanctuary, where you can pet lion cubs and see them up close. One of the cubs bit me and started pulling at my hair! The handler had to intervene to get the cub off me.
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And maybe a Papa Bear too. I hope those other hikers didn't get attacked.WendyH wrote:While hiking through Cases Cove years ago, my friends and I came across three baby black bears eating nuts from the top of a tree. There were other hikers there standing at the base of the tree taking pictures, but we got out of there quickly. Where there are baby bears, you can be sure there is a protective mother bear not far behind.
We should bear in mind that bears are unbearably violent.
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Ha, that doesn't sound tame at all! If I was alone in a forest with even the nicest and friendliest of horses, I'd still run. The funny thing is horses are actually one of my favorite animals ever. I'm just a chicken at the sight of large creatures.Lincolnshirelass wrote: ↑06 Nov 2017, 09:11 I'm well aware this is going to sound very tame compared to some, but I once had an encounter with a very, very angry, very, very large carthorse. Yes, they're normally the world's most placid creatures and that made it worse! I emerged unscathed but wouldn't care to repeat the experience. BTW a friend of mine once genuinely did have her arm broken by a swan (or so she CLAIMED, for all I know she could have fallen down stairs, but she wasn't given to lies ...!)
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Apparently, the caretaker didn't take care. And you, daring photographer, are something else. I wonder if you would have enjoyed your pictures had you been mauled by that angry lioness. I'm glad you escaped unscathed. And wiser?Zain A Blade wrote: ↑12 Apr 2018, 11:24 Oooh, yours was one frightening experience. I can relate because a lion almost mauled me at a zoo in Nigeria. I was young and fearless (or just crazy), I breached their safety protocol and decided to cross the metal bars to get a close up shot of a lioness. The only thing between me and the lioness was a flimsy wired fence. The shock of my camera's flashlights irritated the lioness and she came at me, lurching at the fence that separated us. All of a sudden it occurred to me that to a lion I am nothing but prey. I ran as fast as I could to the exit, because I knew without doubt that another lurch at the fence will completely bring it down. If the wired fence had given way before I got out, I would have made headline news that day as he second person mauled by a lion in that same zoo. The first one was a caretaker who forgot to lock the gate to the lion's den while feeding them.
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And last summer while camping a bear walked through our site in the middle of the night, that was cool.