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 Your Favorite Animal, Plant, &/or Fungus You've Seen in the Wild 
#13758290 - 01/09/11 05:46 PM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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What's your favorite animal, plant, fungus, and/or other organisms you've seen in the wild, not captivity?
For me...
Reptile: Eastern hognose snake.
Amphibian: Gray Tree Frog
Mammal: Red Fox
Bird: Eastern Screech Owl
Plant: Datura stramonium
Fungus: Amanita muscaria var. formosa
Insect/invertebrate: Cecropia moth
I listed something for almost every category but you can list only one plant or animal if you want.
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 Re: Your Favorite Animal, Plant, &/or Fungus You've Seen in the Wild [Re: Space Elf]
#13758330 - 01/09/11 05:54 PM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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Nice. When I was younger, my family was camping on our uncles property in Utah. On the drive up around all the dirt roads, we saw a black bear with 2 little cubs. My mom didn't let me get more than 5 feet from her the whole trip. I was like wtf?
Needless to say, I was bored as fuck the whole trip.
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Re: Your Favorite Animal, Plant, &/or Fungus You've Seen in the Wild [Re: Space Elf]
#13758342 - 01/09/11 05:56 PM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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Psilocybe cyanescens:
Black Bear:
Rattle Snake:
Sea turtle:
Angels Trumpet:
Edited by Belac (01/09/11 05:57 PM)
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Re: Your Favorite Animal, Plant, &/or Fungus You've Seen in the Wild [Re: Space Elf]
#13764832 - 01/10/11 08:06 PM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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I have to admit that many of my favorites would come from the 2 years I lived in Australia, especially in the mammals category. Of course there were kangaroos/wallabys, but I also saw koalas, echidnas and platypus' in the wild. Lots of crazy snakes there also.
And Costa Rica offered some neat things. I saw a sloth up in a tree at lunch one day, I stood quietly in the jungle as a whole group of coati (also called a pizote) passed by less then 10 feet from me, I watched wild monkeys swinging through the trees, and I saw toucans in the wild also.
Heres pics I took in Costa Rica. None of them are really spectacular, but these are the actual animals I saw and photographed personally....
Pizote
Toucan
Sloth
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Re: Your Favorite Animal, Plant, &/or Fungus You've Seen in the Wild [Re: Space Elf]
#13765418 - 01/10/11 09:46 PM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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I've seen lots of stuff while snorkeling, from sea turtles to tiger sharks to stingrays...I guess the sea turtles would be my favorite. I've also gone whale-watching, so humpbacks are definitely a favorite of mine. I also once got really close to a bunch of elephant seals. That was pretty spectacular.
On land, I've seen black bears, moose, caribou, bison, coyotes, bald eagles, pronghorns, and rams. I guess I'd pick bison as the most incredible, as I saw one just a few feet from the car.
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Re: Your Favorite Animal, Plant, &/or Fungus You've Seen in the Wild [Re: Silversoul]
#13766809 - 01/11/11 02:12 AM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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I like snapping turtles and Hawks.
I like Quaking Aspen Trees.
As per OP's requirements, comments limited to things I have seen in the wilds.
But once I paid 20 bucks to play with a baby tiger for ten minutes and that was fucking cool.
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Re: Your Favorite Animal, Plant, &/or Fungus You've Seen in the Wild [Re: Space Elf]
#13766964 - 01/11/11 02:57 AM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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Re: Your Favorite Animal, Plant, &/or Fungus You've Seen in the Wild [Re: SlyShiek]
#13926322 - 02/08/11 10:50 AM (2 years, 4 months ago) |
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Lions are pretty awesome. My family and I got to go to a game lodge in Africa, it was located on a HUGE national park... while we were on a game ride, we got to see two lionesses stalk and take down a Ganu (Not sure about the spelling, its a kind of wildebeast). It was epic!
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Re: Your Favorite Animal, Plant, &/or Fungus You've Seen in the Wild [Re: Force Ten]
#13930261 - 02/08/11 11:27 PM (2 years, 4 months ago) |
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Some of the things i saw in the wild were pretty cool.
aligator
nephiles clavipes (gold orb spider) there pretty big.
black bear. went on a hunt, it was killed 20 yards from me running towards us
Elk, I killed one. plus ive seen many of these in arizona. quite amazing creatures.
Ive seen quite alot of these and have killed about 5
[image]http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT08RWGFig_MNz6GQXAgGgXbldAmML6yUt5vYjDftQxjdqzZ7_69A[/image
Green eel- saw him while snorkeling a reef in florida. HUGE, at least 7 feet long and very big
Bobcat - saw him in the rockies 1 time. A rare sight.
baracude - snorkeling
Bum - ive seen many of these in big cities.
Antelope - seen many of these
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Re: Your Favorite Animal, Plant, &/or Fungus You've Seen in the Wild [Re: dshow]
#13945974 - 02/11/11 04:34 PM (2 years, 4 months ago) |
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Man, I just remembered the alligators I saw in the Everglades. I also saw an iguana there.
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Re: Your Favorite Animal, Plant, &/or Fungus You've Seen in the Wild [Re: dshow]
#13946089 - 02/11/11 04:49 PM (2 years, 4 months ago) |
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Bum - ive seen many of these in big cities.
lol, usually not dangerous, if ever confronted aggressively by one throw change from pocket and run in opposite direction. (not to be mistaken for the relatively harmless hippie bum variety)
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Re: Your Favorite Animal, Plant, &/or Fungus You've Seen in the Wild [Re: Space Elf]
#13964290 - 02/14/11 11:40 PM (2 years, 4 months ago) |
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Animals... Hmm...
I love birds... Corvids are #1...Red tail hawks... bald eagles.. rufous hummingbirds.. Red wing blackbirds, I love their songs so much...
I like getting up close and personal with basically any animal I track... Deer, elk, cougar...
Plants? I LOVE cottonwood trees... Especially in the summer, when a nice breeze is swimming through them, that sound, the way they look... Along with Garry's oak and Ash and big leaf maple. Bryophytes I really dig the shit out of too.
Fungus? Witches butter, along with antlered perfume.(a lichen.) I also love hedge nettle and jewl weed and columbine. Reed canary grass I really dig too. Ah, and maiden hair fern.... I can actually keep going...
I just LOVE the fuck out of my local ecology period....
There was a time as well where I found a human testicle in a mountain stream, picked it up thinking it was an agat... Does that count? 
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Re: Your Favorite Animal, Plant, &/or Fungus You've Seen in the Wild [Re: Raven Gnosis]
#13965207 - 02/15/11 01:53 AM (2 years, 4 months ago) |
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Thats a cotton wood tree. There is a town names Cotton Wood in Arizona because has so many cottonwoods everywhere.
Either way you usually find them in riparian areas because those are the only places in AZ where water comes part of the year.
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Re: Your Favorite Animal, Plant, &/or Fungus You've Seen in the Wild [Re: Space Elf]
#13966096 - 02/15/11 09:15 AM (2 years, 4 months ago) |
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From Hawaii I saw and my favorites are:
The Green Sea Turtle which I swam with on black sand beach in 1997.
And the Killer Whale which I saw jumping out of the water numerous times.
In Mexico I was once accosted by a spider monkey (I believe) who desperately wanted my orange soda.
From Georgia my favorites that I have seen are:
The Red Fox. I've seen them a few times. The last time was a day when there was snow on the ground, very rare, and it was running along a lake. Very picturesque.
I saw a coyote near the Chattahoochee River in Gold Branch National Park. Nobody goes to gold branch and the people who do let their dogs off of the leash all the time. I thought I saw a domesticated dog just off the trail and went to investigate. It wasn't until I was about 15 feet away that I realized it was a coyote. It probably wasn't a danger to me, but still not my best move. They do look a lot like domesticated dogs.
Living in the south eastern United States my entire life I have also encountered various reptiles and amphibians. This includes water moccasins, king snakes, yellow bellied sliders, painted turtles, american toads, grey tree frogs, common snapping turtles, alligator snapping turtles, soft shelled turtles, newts, and many more.
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Re: Your Favorite Animal, Plant, &/or Fungus You've Seen in the Wild [Re: robbyberto]
#13966109 - 02/15/11 09:23 AM (2 years, 4 months ago) |
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Of course my favorite fungus is psilocybe weilii, which I have hunted myself and in fact you can see a picture I have taken of them on wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Psilocybeweiliirobbybertocreavitecommon.jpg
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Re: Your Favorite Animal, Plant, &/or Fungus You've Seen in the Wild [Re: robbyberto]
#13989264 - 02/19/11 11:57 AM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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Hiking around the PNW, I've seen black bears, mountain goats, marmots, grouse, bald eagles, plenty of deer and elk...
In Alaska/Yukon... a grizzly bear, several moose and caribou
Out on the coast sailing/surfing/diving, I've seen all kinds of seals, otters, humpbacks, orcas, red octopus, moon jellies, and my favorite -- hooded nudibranchs
In California I got to surf with dolphins every morning :3
Mushrooms... I love it when I find amanitas... even more when I find cyanescens... and I get hungry when I find chantrelles.
Other plants - wood sorrel and huckleberries... often I've been out hiking and come across a REALLY good smell, always the same smell, that I haven't figured out yet... but I think it's a combination of vanilla leaf with other plants. I wish I could describe it.
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Re: Your Favorite Animal, Plant, &/or Fungus You've Seen in the Wild [Re: erly]
#13994522 - 02/20/11 10:26 AM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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Awesome thread. I love Red Foxes. I see them all the time where I live. I was walking in the woods recently and one ran by me within about 20 feet.
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Re: Your Favorite Animal, Plant, &/or Fungus You've Seen in the Wild [Re: Mad_Larkin]
#14008409 - 02/22/11 06:17 PM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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I love the euphorbia genius and the different varities of insect eating plants.
the frog and snake are my animal medicines & I love dragon flies which have saved me from misery more than once on tour when the horse flies wanted to eat my delicious blood meats. It was bad ass watching the dragon flies attack and then eat the faces off the horse flies.
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Re: Your Favorite Animal, Plant, &/or Fungus You've Seen in the Wild [Re: Space Elf]
#14015227 - 02/23/11 07:39 PM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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Animal: Bull snake (they eat rattle snakes)
Plant: Ponderosa Pine (smells like vanilla)
Fungus: Morel (you can sell them for a higher price than magic mushrooms lol)
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Re: Your Favorite Animal, Plant, &/or Fungus You've Seen in the Wild [Re: SlashOZ]
#14016988 - 02/24/11 12:34 AM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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ponderosa pines smell like vanilla? i never noticed that...
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