Part of the exhibit. They fed the gators chicken, the guy would stand on a platform and dangle the chicken on a pole, and get the gators to jump for it from the water. Like cats, it was kind of amazing. I always thought they were full of chicken. But maybe only one or two of them knew to jump for the chicken, who knows?
There’s an alligator in the pond at my office park, and one day riding in on my bike I saw him grabbing breakfast, very exciting. But everyone knows not to feed them, and to to be careful of them out in the wild! I did not know to be careful of the ones that were behind a very low fence in an exhibit!
Here is the one I see on my way to work sometimes.
I’m always impressed how different things can be normal depending on where you live. Alligators on the way to work! It never crossed my mind someone’s daily commute might include alligators
in London urban foxes were a daily nuisance, then i briefly lived on an ostrich farm in Poland, now I live in America and regularly have deer in my back yard.
I have only once seen a fox, but we do have city coyotes. And amazing birds, whomping big herons and storks, and flocks of ibis, and in my neighborhood peacocks, downtown there is a flock of green parrots. I feel bad for them, sure they’d all rather have the space without the city but they have adapted. And we do have a lot of green space, mitigation is mandated when you pave over land otherwise flooding would be so much worse in the rainy season.
Ostriches can live in Poland? It seems so cold there.
I guess they have a wider range than we usually think.
I’ve seen ostrich farms in Hungary and Serbia. Southern than Poland but still far outside of typical ostrich habitat.
Part of the exhibit. They fed the gators chicken, the guy would stand on a platform and dangle the chicken on a pole, and get the gators to jump for it from the water. Like cats, it was kind of amazing. I always thought they were full of chicken. But maybe only one or two of them knew to jump for the chicken, who knows?
There’s an alligator in the pond at my office park, and one day riding in on my bike I saw him grabbing breakfast, very exciting. But everyone knows not to feed them, and to to be careful of them out in the wild! I did not know to be careful of the ones that were behind a very low fence in an exhibit!
Here is the one I see on my way to work sometimes.
I’m always impressed how different things can be normal depending on where you live. Alligators on the way to work! It never crossed my mind someone’s daily commute might include alligators
in London urban foxes were a daily nuisance, then i briefly lived on an ostrich farm in Poland, now I live in America and regularly have deer in my back yard.
I have only once seen a fox, but we do have city coyotes. And amazing birds, whomping big herons and storks, and flocks of ibis, and in my neighborhood peacocks, downtown there is a flock of green parrots. I feel bad for them, sure they’d all rather have the space without the city but they have adapted. And we do have a lot of green space, mitigation is mandated when you pave over land otherwise flooding would be so much worse in the rainy season.
Ostriches can live in Poland? It seems so cold there.
I guess they have a wider range than we usually think.
I’ve seen ostrich farms in Hungary and Serbia. Southern than Poland but still far outside of typical ostrich habitat.
Like big angry squirrels
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