Wild Animals Encounters (Page 2 of 2)

some of my parents friends was in tanzania (i think or kenya) and this guy was swimming in a river without noticing he swam in between a hippo mom and child. The hippo mom snapped him in two pieces in front of everybody. It was a big trauma for them. Hippos are very dangerous!

Lots of foxes around here too. My friend's nickname is Fox because they always seemed to appear when he was around

nice encounter bias...we are so happy they Moved away..

I was tree planting in northern British Columbia when I saw a bear on my piece.

I turned around and there he was, about 12 meters from me. It was a black bear, so it was not as bad as seeing a grizzly bear.

(Your options then. (if you even see it before it kills you) are to play dead (and lose a limb of the bears choosing), run (in a 100 meter race the bear will finish 50 meters ahead of the fastest person in the world), or climb a tree. (I guess grizzly bears can not climb to well).

You can also run down a steep hill and outrun it.

Anyways, I just turned around, walked a couple feet, looked back, he was not interested in me, so I walked away again and he did not bother me. 

Saw a fox and got a good picture of it! They move so smoothly, almost as if they are floating along.

Here is a picture of where we were planting.