No way. Lions, tigers and bears. Oh my. And a king fucking cobra.
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No way. Lions, tigers and bears. Oh my. And a king fucking cobra.
Haha.Hear hear!Quote:
Originally Posted by riser3
Official animal - I do like beaver, however strong arguments can be made for the whorey marmot and tit mouse.
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Originally Posted by riser3
most excellent choices but I never knew a Mamot could be such a slut. I have to rethink my decisionQuote:
Originally Posted by garyfromterrace
ha! they are all scum sucking rodents, ask ze guide about pack rats that got into the roof which were followed/eaten by the pine martens who knocked a piece of wood trim onto the stove pipe which almost burnt the place down ... which necessitated pulling the roof completely to fix insulation and plug all holes with armored clothQuote:
Originally Posted by garyfromterrace
Fucking rodents. I love them as much as I love mosquitoes.Quote:
Originally Posted by XXX-er
Perhaps can't be our national animal, but should most certainly be our National Insect. 180 Mosquito Squadron FTWQuote:
Originally Posted by riser3
Mosquito's up narth are so big they have landing lights
some people think pine martens are cute
they don't realize if they get in you house they will make a mess of it and need to be killed
chase that rodent away!
begs the question Why oh Creator of all things Why did you let them evolve into blood sucking disease carrying party popper pests ?Quote:
Originally Posted by XXX-er
Die Mosquitoes Die.
One can only take solace in that "Human have little skeeters upon their skin to bite 'em. And little skeeters have little'r skeeters, and so ad infinitum."
part of the food chain eh
Heh. Not for kids only.Quote:
Originally Posted by BCMountainHound
Bears and wolves are cool gentlemen, but aren't they are a little obvious for a national animal? Looking through the list of national animals, one might be inclined to ascertain that a bunch of school children picked them. The cats, wolves and bears are the collective voice of that nation screaming out 'hey look at us, we are profoundly unoriginal' and perhaps more plausibly 'hey look at us, we have microscopic genitalia.' Even the mosquito is more compelling than your big cats and other top of the food chain selections.
The more I think about it, the more I really like the beaver as our national animal. They are really cool.
Come to think of it we should just Leave it to Beaver and forget all the Eddie Hassle ;)
How about the Mosquito on the back of a nickle ?
and at this point it would be entirely apropo to make some nickleback jokes
I heard they are discontinuing the loonie
https://youtu.be/b9434BoGkNQQuote:
Originally Posted by XXX-er
Its cuz the newfies are busting their teeth trying to get the chocolate out eh?
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montre...mera-1.3393343Quote:
Originally Posted by Kenny Satch
Maybe it should be the Snowy beaver.
I can live with that. :biggrin:Quote:
Originally Posted by iceman
Seriously. The mother fucking Wolverine. I mean, c'mon people. The Snowy Owl? Why don't we make it the Snowflake. Canadian Wolverine eats Owl, then fucks Beaver. Goes home to Lady Moose. Canadian Fairy Tale.
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LoLQuote:
Originally Posted by Meanfruit
Yeah you're right but when I hear Wolverine I think Michigan. Logan forgive me.
Wolverines are very cool. Cranky bastards fighting way over their weight.
These guys are cool too. Saw one last June west of Houston.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlM8Bp9KrhU
Something about urban animal sightings that seems very Canadian.
Lynx and Wolverine? A Wynx?
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Life in Terrace B.C....the rare recessive gene white black bear makes an appearance on my friend's front lawn. She's lived here for 17 years and has yet to see one. Pretty cool...but, bear outstays his welcome in the townsite...bears that loiter in town are generally put down due to habituation to humans and becoming reliant on domestic food sources... relocations don't always work 'cause bears wander back to town for feeding.....there were daily social media rumors that if captured the bear was to be put down, but were thankfully unfounded... the conservation officers concluded he was fit to relocate and were able to tranquilize, capture and bring this fine specimen back to his natural habitat. Keep on rockin' in the free world, little white black bear.
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^^^ Saw a Kermode south of Meziadan back in the late 90's while treeplanting. That and a particularly close Lynx encounter are my best animal sightings. How about you guys, what's your best animal encounter (of a Canadian persuasion of course)?
Neither google nor I know what that is.Quote:
Originally Posted by Angle Parking
Campin out the gosnel doing forestry research, BIG fucking griz coming up the road, the 3 of us yelled at it and looked for the truck, it turned 90 degrees ran across to the other side of the small valley another 90 degree turn and up a hill paralelling the road , probably did another 90 and came out back on the same road down the line
seen a couple of lynx recently
Suprised an owl out in the babines they are cool becuz they can fly so slow and quiet
The Kermode bear, also known as the "spirit bear", is a rare subspecies of the American black bear living in the Central and North Coast regions of British Columbia, Canada. It is the official provincial mammal of British Columbia. WikipediaQuote:
Originally Posted by iceman
Scientific name: Ursus americanus kermodei
Subspecies: U. a. kermodei
Watched a couple of boar griz duke it out, and then the winner (collared) mount the lucky lady griz. Called the owners of the collar and learned this particular guy really got a round, from northern Idaho (priest R) up into Kokanee Glacier park.
Next was a couple of marten tumbling and playing within arms reach as I sat quietly enjoying lunch.
Out moose hunting in thick riparian, and ran headlong (literally) into a pack of wolves. The lead animals saw me a few seconds after I saw them, and got to see expressions of playful glee tails up, to oops, holy shit, tails down, let's get the fuck out of here.
Lots of close encounters with black bear, lynx, badger, and various raptors. Hound playing games with mamma moose with calf is always fun. Not as fun as getting treed by a bull moose in the early rut. And two wolverine encounters, both from the truck (thankfully). Hard to narrow down the best.
Saw Clover, the habituated kermode at the Kamloops wildlife park, and when visiting Stewart followed the advice of the locals and viewed them at the local garbage dump (before the better contained waste transfer stations).
Late 90's, while salmon fishing around some islands along Knight inlet we watched a black bear wander out of the trees, jump in the water and swim 300m or so over to the next island. That was pretty awesome to see, I had no idea they would move between islands like that...Quote:
Originally Posted by Angle Parking
As a young lad my 'rents took us to Wood Buffalo Provincial Park in Alberta. The father of the other family with us ("Al") was Saskatchewanese. There were some bulls laying in the dirt about 50 meters off the road. Al decided he wanted a photo so started walking through the brush toward them. He got about 10 meters away and threw a tree limb at them. Buffalo stood up. Al covered the 40 meters back to the car in three steps.Quote:
Originally Posted by Angle Parking
About 15 years ago, on Lake of the Woods, a few miles south of Kenora; coming home from a day of fishing and we spotted a moose swimming from island to island. We killed the motor, sipped beers, and watched until it hit shore.
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Whoops, forgot to include the Kermode descriptor to the white black bear handle...but, I kinda avoided it 'cause I didn't want to start a 'spirit bear' vs. 'kermode' bear name debate...
As for craziest wildlife encounters, man oh man, where to start...would it be opening the front door living in Rupert and come face to face with a huge black bear in our garage? The town dump had recently closed and all the garbage bears scattered into town lookin' for food. Would it be going for a recon drive up William's Creek, coming around a bend in the road and ran into two Grizzlies doing it like they do on the discovery channel...and the dude wouldn't stop his business till he was finished..what are the odds????... Would it be commercial fishing off of Haida Gwaii and have a huge mofo of a Grey Whale snag into our gear, start pulling our troller over sideways untill the lines snapped 'BIIIIINNNNNGGGG', and see the poor guy surface with a bunch of flashers/hooks stuck on his back with the odd flapping salmon along for the ride...man I felt sick about that one....Would it be heliskiing up north of Stewart, landing on a 6000 foot elevation alpine ridge, like 2000 vert feet above treeline....skiing down off the landing to regroup. Spotted a porquipine carcass sitting half buried by the evening's snowfall atop the snow. Thought that was weird, then skied down the bowl...picked up by heli, flew back to same landing...spotted a wolverine just GIVIN'ER down and laterally across the bowl we skied, coming from the general direction of our heli landing... Got dropped off, skied back down to the regroup spot a bit down from the landing and, voila, mystery of the porquipine carcass solved. We were standing right on top of the little bastard's den on the previous regroup!!!! Peeking inside seeing partially consumed carcass, meat, bones, quills, blood....totally creepy. Or, would it be getting attacked by a Sand Lake piranha (I swear ;) ) after skiing in June, heading down to adjacent lake to dip the sore feet in the water while sitting on a little dock....then outta nowhere the fish started chomping on my toes, taking out good sized little chunks...it was some weird bullhead looking thing. I totally freaked out, got the fuck right outta there; most traumatic of all the wildlife encounters.
For those of you that have seen a Wolverine I say.....https://i.pinimg.com/736x/e9/3a/e8/e...e20b433967.jpg
That is a beauty pic.Quote:
Originally Posted by Flyoverland Captive
Excellent stories Swiss (copulating grizzlies=awesome) and sadly I am with Kenny in that I have never had a Wolverine encounter.
I've also had some super good mountain goat encounters. Now those are some f*ckin' cool animals. The big, jacked up billies...all majestic. Beautiful.
Fishing off a cliff near Alert Bay in the 80's, about 50 feet( 16 meters) up off the water,when a minke whale swam right up under the rock face. Completely harmless,but scared the shit out of me. ( I was twelve)
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