This week in Canada.

[riser4]

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."

Heh. Not for kids only.

[Angle Parking]

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.

[Kenny Satch]

Come to think of it we should just Leave it to Beaver and forget all the Eddie Hassle

[XXX-er]

How about the Mosquito on the back of a nickle ?

and at this point it would be entirely apropo to make some nickleback jokes

[XXX-er]

I heard they are discontinuing the loonie

[Kenny Satch]

I heard they are discontinuing the loonie

[XXX-er]

Its cuz the newfies are busting their teeth trying to get the chocolate out eh?

[Angle Parking]

If not the Beaver then it should be the Snowy Owl
I say who - who can agree with that

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montre...mera-1.3393343

[iceman]

Maybe it should be the Snowy beaver.

[Kenny Satch]

Maybe it should be the Snowy beaver.

I can live with that.

[Meanfruit]

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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[Kenny Satch]

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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LoL
Yeah you're right but when I hear Wolverine I think Michigan. Logan forgive me.

[Angle Parking]

Wolverines are very cool. Cranky bastards fighting way over their weight.

[Angle Parking]

These guys are cool too. Saw one last June west of Houston.



Something about urban animal sightings that seems very Canadian.

[Meanfruit]

Lynx and Wolverine? A Wynx?

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[swissiphic]

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.






http://www.terracestandard.com/news/...and-relocated/

[Angle Parking]

^^^ 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)?

[iceman]

Kermode

Neither google nor I know what that is.

[XXX-er]

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

[TurxSki]

Neither google nor I know what that is.

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. Wikipedia

Scientific name: Ursus americanus kermodei

Subspecies: U. a. kermodei

[BCMtnHound]

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.

[BCMtnHound]

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).

[evdog]

How about you guys, what's your best animal encounter (of a Canadian persuasion of course)?

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...

[TBS]

How about you guys, what's your best animal encounter (of a Canadian persuasion of course)?

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.

[Flyoverland Captive]

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.