...for being named America's National Mammal (http://bigstory.ap.org/article/13b58c1761084981aad3115bb0aed67f/american-bison-designated-uss-national-mammal)!
15 facts about our new national mammal (https://www.doi.gov/blog/15-facts-about-our-national-mammal-american-bison)
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Bigfoot packs stalk them in Yellowstone.
It's about damned time!
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Here is what he really is
Congrats to the Bison as National Mammal. They beat-out my choice, the Duck-Billed Platypus, by a nose. Of course the Platypus is still in the running for everything else because nobody knows what the hell they really are anyway. To celebrate, I'm going down to Wal-Mart and buy some Bison-Steaks to fire-up on the BBQ this weekend. <:-)
Mmmm, Bison steaks.
HAHAHA!!! Our Bison is absolutely the one in the above clip.
Ha! The dead one or the survivor?
*sigh*
Not the dead one.
Come on!!
Thank God. Being eaten by a pack of wolves is one of my few phobias.
Okay, I have to admit the douchebag bison video was even better than my Yellowstone Bigfoot-hunting video. O0
Are you serious about that phobia, Bison?
Sorta related: Friday night I was grilling burgers out on our deck, which faces the nature preserve and 1000s of acres of hilly woods. The smell brought out the coyotes but it was dark and I couldn't see them...I could only hear them howling for the food.
Scared the crap out my kids :)
Quote from: Gusington on November 06, 2016, 11:29:42 AM
Scared the crap out my kids :)
Don't blame them. Coyote howls are pretty freaky.
No not really, but you have to admit being eaten alive by a pack of wolves would be horrible.
Quote from: Bison on November 06, 2016, 12:21:46 PM
No not really, but you have to admit being eaten alive by a pack of wolves would be horrible.
Or Zombies. :hide:
Quote from: OJsDad on November 06, 2016, 01:12:34 PM
Quote from: Bison on November 06, 2016, 12:21:46 PM
No not really, but you have to admit being eaten alive by a pack of wolves would be horrible.
Or Zombies. :hide:
Or the ultimate nightmare, Zombie Wolves.
I think the point was that bison...or perhaps Bison...is a douche. And yes, any sort of zombie hybrid would be horrible.
Wolves are hunters right? Not scavengers like coyotes? So I think that fear of being devoured by wolves, or anything really, is pretty bad. Torn limb from limb, bleeding out...that sort of thing.
^ Exactly and to throw salt in the wound they single out the weakest for their next meal. How's that for a kick in the face? Your last thoughts are "Oh shit I'm being eaten by a pack of ravenous wolves! They chose me because I was the weakest link in the herd!!! OUCH!!!!!!!"
Insulted and thusly torn to shreds for it.
Quote from: Gusington on November 06, 2016, 03:32:42 PM
Insulted and thusly torn to shreds for it.
I've had a few relationships like that.
Clearly Disney lied. The circle of life sucks.
Hakuna-fucking-matata.
No, we don't see the end of the video. So I'm thinking the wolves probably just gave the bison a good-natured wedgey and an Indian Burn and then they all laughed it off. Probably just a pre-rehearst tourist stunt for the cameras is all. We all know everything in Nature lives in complete harmony with everything else. Besides, the Bison probably started it.
Quote from: Bison on November 06, 2016, 03:36:20 PM
Clearly Disney lied. The circle of life sucks.
Actual Disney movie,
Never Cry Wolf, about actual Smithsonian researcher Farley Mowat going up north in the 60s (iirc) to study wolves in the Arctic and his colorful adventures, based on his autobiographical memoirs of the same name. (I found the book in UTK's library in college; it's just as interesting as the movie.)
Highly instrumental in changing the popular perception of wolves to be noble, basically harmless animals.
As much as I like the book and the movie both, my BS detector pegs hard on the misunderstood harmlessness of wolves. ;)
(Note that while I might be misremembering the Smithsonian connection, Mowat basically lied out of his ass in order to create a 'helpful' myth, leaving future readers to debate how much of his story was based on actual research, whether his or others'. So... so I'm
granted a pass on whether he was commissioned by the Smithsonian or not. So there. :P )
They might be noble (I actually think they are amazing animals), but a hungry wolf pack still needs to eat...
Well, it was the harmlessness I pegged on, not the nobility. ;)
Quote from: mirth on November 06, 2016, 11:57:42 AM
Quote from: Gusington on November 06, 2016, 11:29:42 AM
Scared the crap out my kids :)
Don't blame them. Coyote howls are pretty freaky.
Living on the ranch, down in the hills of Jed Clampettland, there were multiple different packs in our area. They'd be screaming all over the place, when the moon was up & bright.
Sounds like women screaming from a distance sometimes. :crazy2:
I'd occasionally see one of the dumbasses running down the road, or along a fence line, in the day time. They weren't too stupid, though, because they'd be off like lightning if they caught sight of you coming out a door.
Here in Florida Coyotes are everywhere now days. They're even getting over to the barrier islands on the coast and eating the Sea Turtle eggs out of their nests. We may have to change the state emblem to an Indian girl watching a steam ship go by while a coyote is chewing on one of her legs.
There's apparently a pack living a long par-4 away from our house, but I never hear them; our neighbor across the street gets them in her backyard, and they've killed all her outdoor cats. The only time I've ever heard them, I was in a completely different area of town and much farther away from their territory. (Arguably that weird set of snowprints I posted a year or two ago came from a coyote, although it looked completely different and was basically the size of the front half of my foot. But if it was running, it might look like that. Maybe. Whatever it was, there were and still are little teeny tiny prints exactly the same in the concrete of our garage floor, about the size of a dime. They'd be more adorable if I knew what they were. ;) )
They helped me get my littlest niece inside one night when we were having a party at our house and she wanted to play tag outside after sundown for some bizarre reason. I said, "Okay, but keep an ear out for coyotes. They can outrun you, and might carry you off."
>:D
Quote from: Sir Slash on November 08, 2016, 09:54:59 AM
We may have to change the state emblem to an Indian girl watching a steam ship go by while a coyote is chewing on one of her legs.
That's an amusing picture you made me form in my head. ;D