Animal encounters
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While I was out hunting this year I had an encounter with a doe and a fawn.
The doe was about 30yds away and her fawn was behind her.
She would pound her hoof on the ground and make a loud breathing noise HMMMMPHFFFFSSSS. She did this several times while I just stood still and watched. I knew she was trying to present herself as big and intimidating.
The last time she did this I pretended to be startled by it and flinched. She ran off about 30 yds and saw me standing in the same place and started doing it again. Pounding the ground with her hoof and then breathing out really loud. I just laughed to myself thinking if she was really that big and tough she wouldn't have run off just by me flinching.
So I started walking away. And she watched for a little while. Then her and her fawn went the opposite direction.
I wonder if I was the first person she had ever seen? At least that close up.
The doe was about 30yds away and her fawn was behind her.
She would pound her hoof on the ground and make a loud breathing noise HMMMMPHFFFFSSSS. She did this several times while I just stood still and watched. I knew she was trying to present herself as big and intimidating.
The last time she did this I pretended to be startled by it and flinched. She ran off about 30 yds and saw me standing in the same place and started doing it again. Pounding the ground with her hoof and then breathing out really loud. I just laughed to myself thinking if she was really that big and tough she wouldn't have run off just by me flinching.
So I started walking away. And she watched for a little while. Then her and her fawn went the opposite direction.
I wonder if I was the first person she had ever seen? At least that close up.
My friends and I went hiking one day. A girl that was friends with one of my friends had fallen back a little bit, so I let the group go ahead as I stayed behind to walk with her. As we hiked some more, she screamed. I looked up and saw a coyote about 20 feet away, staring at us. He wasn't doing anything threatening, just observing us. I told her that it was fine, just not to look at him if he's scaring her. He was literally just standing on all fours, just calmly watching us.
It wasn't until he started following us at a distance when I started to get scared, but I just told her not to run or anything, in case he decides to chase after us. Eventually, we got to the car and the coyote was long gone.
It wasn't until he started following us at a distance when I started to get scared, but I just told her not to run or anything, in case he decides to chase after us. Eventually, we got to the car and the coyote was long gone.
J
Does a bat in my hair, a snake in my tent, a tarantula up my leg, a bear against my car, a deer in the road to many times to count, a mountain lion in my back yard, the geese who wont move when I am trying to park, the cat who wants to die by my dog jumping the fence into my yard,the endless snakes in my pool, the flamingo who got out of the zoo and loves to freak me early in the morning, the dogs that have bitten me, the dolphins I swim with, the star fish I pet, the beauty of my scuba dives and the creatures I see, the shark who really wanted to eat me, the elephant I rode or the giraffe I rode or the horse I rode or the donkey I rode count? Just to name a few!
Just to name a few!
In Bikini Atoll one of the ships we dove on was the Nagato, which commanded the attack on Pearl Harbor. Most of the tour was exterior, but we did go thru the galley and the kitchen and into a storage room. From the storage room the group exited a tear in the hull, after noting a nurse shark sitting on the sand inside the room. I went last, and as I got to the breach the shark lifted and started swimming slowly towards me. Now these are mostly bottom feeders and not typically a man eater, but you don't want to turn your back on any animal. So I took a position at the door and shined my dive light in it's eyes to blind it, and figuring if it got aggressive it would go to the light which I was more than willing to hand over as a distraction to my exit. It kept coming, more slow and curious than menacing, but when it got within a couple arm lengths I raised the light to smack it on the nose. Raising my arm was all it took, the shark did a quick180 and sped out the other side of the hull. I used that opportunity to do a hasty exit out my side. I got many quizzical looks from the other divers as to why I delayed, and needless to say the decompression stops seemed twice as long on the way up! 'Couldn't wait to share that story! And rub it in their noses that they had laughed at me for carrying a bulky light that looked like a club.
In Bikini Atoll one of the ships we dove on was the Nagato, which commanded the attack on Pearl Harbor. Most of the tour was exterior, but we did go thru the galley and the kitchen and into a storage room. From the storage room the group exited a tear in the hull, after noting a nurse shark sitting on the sand inside the room. I went last, and as I got to the breach the shark lifted and started swimming slowly towards me. Now these are mostly bottom feeders and not typically a man eater, but you don't want to turn your back on any animal. So I took a position at the door and shined my dive light in it's eyes to blind it, and figuring if it got aggressive it would go to the light which I was more than willing to hand over as a distraction to my exit. It kept coming, more slow and curious than menacing, but when it got within a couple arm lengths I raised the light to smack it on the nose. Raising my arm was all it took, the shark did a quick180 and sped out the other side of the hull. I used that opportunity to do a hasty exit out my side. I got many quizzical looks from the other divers as to why I delayed, and needless to say the decompression stops seemed twice as long on the way up! 'Couldn't wait to share that story! And rub it in their noses that they had laughed at me for carrying a bulky light that looked like a club.