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Possums can look a bit funky but they are really good to have around. They don’t bother people and they eat a ton of ticks and other critters you don’t really want around.
Bats are good to keep around too as they eat mosquitos.
And they don’t carry rabies
@@NancyToddYeah, rabies has become so rare in wild animals although it still exists.
I had 4 generations of Possums grow up in my backyard. They eat all the dropped fruit. They compete with stray cats in the area but are harmless if left alone.
Possums eating ticks is a myth.
My daughter is a veterinarian, and when she lived in Las Vegas she had a family bring in their " dog" they had found as a pup. It was very well behaved, and was a great pet for them.....when my daughter informed them they had a coyote, they kept it as it was such a good " dog"!!!
Well they are basically a "DOG". I had a dog that was half coyote.
@@sullyway51 aren't they amazing , mine was ...
Here in Arkansas we have racoons and they are dangerous, but we have all kinds of wild animals and people that have their dog chained upped to were he could be kil e by Mountain lions, Panthers, Coyotes you seen the picture
@@scottierogers7738 Brother, in Arkansas, the animals are the least of your worries.
@@escapetarkov3838 not in Kingsland Arkansas , it is in the Country, now if I lived in Pins Bluff Arkansas well that would be different like you say animals are the last things I need to worry about. All the crime and crap, that's what I like about living in a small town
"Trash Panda" is my most favorite nick name for a racoon. They tend to be very mean too.
Never heard that nickname
Nah just come with some offerings and they'll love you.
City racoons: rural ones tend to mind their own business.
@@octaviusmorlockjust shows everything is more insane in the city
Yep, Huntsville AL has a minor league baseball team called the trash pandas 😂
As a kid, it wasn't uncommon for me to meet a person that kept a raccoon as a pet. The story usually went that the raccoon showed up. The person hung out with it for a while, maybe weeks or months. Then, before the person knew it, they bought a dog bed for it and it came and went as it pleased through a dog door.
I have 2 pet coons
To the New Zealand family, keep away from wild racoons if you happen upon them in the US. They can carry Rabies as can skunks. They can be ill tempered. Adult wild racoons aren't cuddly.
My friend growing up had a raccoon that they'd found as an abandoned baby. He had his own chair and don't you DARE eat Fruit Loops in that house because he'd pull your hair and take the bowl 😂😂
Coyotes can be found in the city. They have adapted their hunting tactics and will often go after dogs along with other small animals.
There's a fantastic picture of one lounging in the beverage cooler of a downtown Chicago corner store on a hot day. I wish I could post it.
Coyotes are kinda-sorta like jackals or dingoes.
Sadly, we humans are taking over the habitats of so many animals. In my area, the deer & raccoons are often seen, some looking for food. I live out in the country & often hear the coyotes howl. No one let's same pets or children out without watching.
Think of you all everyday as you travel & experience the USA! with safety! Hope all is well. 😊🇺🇸
We have them where I live now in Jersey. Before I only saw them when I lived in Arizona.
In Thornhill we have so many wild animals where we live. We have coyotes that are walking around freely. Lots of rabbits, raccoons, deer, skunks, geese and opossums.
I hope y'all are having a wonderful trip and enjoying yourselves. When you are in the U.S. I hope you venture out of the big cities during your visit. A lot of the best and most interesting parts of the U.S. are found in the smaller cities and towns.
smaller towns are a great start if you want to experience urban and wildlife at the same time.
I was surprised Lawrence didn't mention Bison, Moose, Wolves, Mountain Lions, Panthers, Bobcats, Elk, Black and Brown Bears, Feral Hogs and a whole plethora of other indigenous animals that people should avoid if coming across them. Feral Hogs aren't exactly indigenous, but they have multiplied so quickly and have spread quickly all over the South and West.
MOuntain lions i was definetly expecting
Probably because he hadn't personally encountered them.
Lawrence didn’t even show a picture of most of what he’s talking about.. I mean that’s as dumb as you can get.. 🤦♂️🤷♂️ doesn’t surprise me with him anymore. Most of his videos are just recycled things he’s already said without pictures and so many of them I don’t know how he doesn’t think of that? 🤯🤡 too busy rolling his stupid R’s.
Feral Hogs are so terribly destructive to the ecosystem and agriculture, I'm hoping they don't invade the North, but I know it's going to eventually happen unfortunately.
Laurence was talking about animals he has seen in person. Of all the animals you listed, I've seen only one in person--a black bear, on one occasion, from the safety of a car.
Seeing bald eagles flying stirs the heart. They're so beautiful, majestic, all that. They returned to town a year after my son was born (1988) at Quabbin Reservoir and have grown to about a reported 20? Its a great place to hike, take your children - and see them.
Opossum is what we call it in my part of the country, the same creature was called' 'possom down south.
There is a ground hog burrow in my neighborhood, underneath a tool shed where I've seen groundhog females and cubs live since the 1980's. I have encounter opossums, skunks, and raccoons in my neighborhood in northeastern New Jersey. Coyotes have sped across the U.S. because wolves and wildcats have been hunted a lot and coyotes move in because they don't have to compete with larger animals. The raccoons suit in Mario Bros. is actually based on a native Japanese animal called a tanuki also called a raccoon dog. They resemble raccoons in appearances and behavior but are half the size of raccoons, a separate spiece of canid related to wolves and foxes.
Mario actually used a Tanuki suit. Tanuki are a Japanese animal in the canine family but look very similar to raccoons. Tanuki are mostly carnivores not omnivores like raccoons. The Tanuki are in Japanese mythology mostly as transforming tricksters and annoying spirit animals with fat bellies and glide on their um nether regions.
Raccoons eat anything that they can get their paws on but their paws are unique as they can function similarly to human hands minus the thumb. They always are careful often washing food in water nearby and act more sneaky than most animals. Unfortunately very nasty creatures as they can easily get rabies and will go through your trash if you’re not careful.
It may be a Tanuki suit but that is a 100% raccoon tail!
And tanuki often appear in folk lore with magic powers, hence racoon Mario's statue ability
Well, there were both the Racoon Suit and the Tanuki Suit. The Racoon Suit was more red, and it allowed you to swat enemies with your tail and fly. The Tanuki Suit was more brown, and made you virtually invincible as a statue and fly.
@@markchristensen23 and yet they put a raccoon tail on it!
@@deannelson9565 Well, some tanuki do have tails that look like raccoons. Of course, it's the masked look on the face that give it the alternate name of "raccoon dog".
I swear I don’t care what anyone says this New Zealand Family always goes out with a BANG and brighten up my day I love you 4!💯⭐️🤩❤️❤️❤️
Lawrence has a wonderful dry sense of humor and his videos are always entertaining while dumping exposition.
As a US resident. Seeing a bald eagle is amazing, no matter how many times you see one. I had one take a fish after I threw it back in the lake. It was amazing to see it just swoop in and grab it, then take off.
At the age of 63 I finally saw my first bald Eagle approximately 6 months ago here in the state of Pennsylvania
That really depends on where you live. If you live where they are commonplace, seeing one is nothing special, and, regardless of how beautiful they are, you may be more likely to view them as fish stealing nuisances than as majestic inspirations.
Knew a family that had a skunk die in their crawl space under their house, took forever to get the stink out of their house
For us boomers, it has some extra meaning because we almost lost them in the late '60s-early '70s due to the use of a pesticide called DDT. It made the eagles' eggs too thin and the baby eagles would break out too soon and die. I've been canoeing a certain river in Minnesota for 50 years and didn't see an eagle for probably the first 15-20 years. Now I see them on every trip but it is still awe inspiring.
@@mikemiller3069 Mexico still uses DDT. Also look up the videos of how the big companies in California dumped thousands of barrels of DDT off the coast of California and to this very day it's leaking into the ocean.
Fun fact, bald eagles are hatched without their white crest, and remain all brown until around two years old. They also weigh approximately 7lbs as an adult. Dollywood, an amusement park in the Smokey Mountains, is a bald Eagle sanctuary and their birds are often demonstrated to guests of the park.
We here in America have a mythical beast called the Jack-A-Lope. Half jackrabbit and half antelope. Curiously none have been caught on video.
My grandfather had a taxidermied head of one of those on the wall for years. Literally a bunny head with tiny antlers sticking out of it. Told us kids that a rabbit mated with an antelope. We were young. Had NO clue how absolutely ridiculous it was. It wasn't until after he died when we were all teenagers that we found out the truth. It was hysterical.
@@Michelle-ce1qh that's so funny! You're grandfather sounds like a good humored man. I know a couple of people who believe there really are such critters.
@@sapphonymph8204 there's a family pic somewhere with all six of us cousins faces when we found out it wasn't real. JAWS WERE ALL OPEN. lol.
@@Michelle-ce1qh Hilarious!
I was just about to mention the elusive Jack-A-Lope. Remember the postcards where they'd show a cowboy riding one? I assumed they were native to western Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado area - that's where I first heard of them.
Years ago, we visited the Alaska Raptor Center in Sitka, Alaska. They showed us a live Bald Eagle up close, just feet from us. He was on a handheld perch, not in a cage. His name was Volta because he had flown into a high-voltage line and was seriously hurt. It was totally impressive! The power in his presence was amazing. About raccoons: When I was a kid, we would go to the St. Louis Zoo and feed the raccoons Cracker Jacks and popcorn. They would reach up and gently take the treat from our hands. We thought they were cute. Years later, after I married a farm girl, I heard her cuss out @$%&! raccoons because they ruin crops and kill chickens.
As a country girl, I concur. :D
Every single day, i see raccoons, deer, squirrel, and more. Im so used to it, never realized its unique to the world
Same.
Yup, people probably see squirrels on their daily drive here lol. We had exchange students from Japan and they never seen squirrels before
When I was 13 we rescued abandoned baby opossums that had fallen from a tree in our backyard. Luckily for us a gal in our neighborhood worked with exotic animals and was able to bottle feed them til they could eat solid food. She gave us one of them, we named him Opie and he was so sweet and cute. Lived in our backyard once he got cat size. We had a rabbit cage on our back porch that he slept in during the day and at night we had it open so he could wander the yard and eat bugs etc. He got bit by a wild female one day and the bite got infected. We did everything we could, got antibiotics and everything but he passed away. We were so sad, he was a beautiful animal. We loved feeding him fruits and bugs that we found ( he always spit out the grape peels) and holding him. I wouldn’t recommend just trying to domesticate a random possum our circumstances were pretty unique. If you live in an area that they inhabit you will see them if you leave cat food outside at night. They love cat food for some reason. We have cats now and they are outdoors as we need them to hunt so we keep their food outside. The possums will come up to our porch at night and eat the food. What’s funny is our cats will just watch them. I guess they aren’t threatened by them.
As far as the Opossum, the pronunciation is "Possum", the O is silent. Also I loved the look Atlanta gave her dad when he said "deer taste good." Ooooh, she was NOT happy with that remark. LOL
He's right...as does cottontail rabbit and grey squirrel, grouse and pheasant. Sadly though much of where ive hunted over 60 yrs have become safety zones because of houses being built and putting severe pressure on wildlife. Its a lot of the reason why there are so many deer in the suburbs and they are the road hazard they've become....a lot of money spent repairing vehicle and replacing eaten shrubbery.
It’s not so much that the “O” is silent, either way is correct and different areas of the country might use “opossum” and others may say “possum”.
Opossums and possums are different animals. The opossum is native to the Americas while possums are native to Australasia. Confusingly in the US sometimes we call them opossums and sometimes call them possums.
@@DarqJestor Hate to tell you that both varieties use both spellings, and the Australian one is actually named after the Virginia opossum.
@@libertyresearch-iu4fy Not a problem. The point was that they're two different animals. Sorry to hear that Australia confuses the issue too.
I've seen all of these animals over the years. The scariest encounter I had was 4 years ago when I was visiting my cousin in rural Pennsylvania and I decided to take a walk at 3:00 am. I looked to my right and thought to myself there is no bush at this location, then the bush moved and I heard a deep growl, I knew then it was a bear and I could not outrun it back to the house. I pulled out my trusty Sig .40 pistol and slowly walked back to the house, lucky for me and the bear we both were fine and he was just giving me a warning growl lol.
The official weather forecasting groundhog's name is Punxatawney Phil, but I can't say with certainty what Roman numerals might follow the current one's name. They do an elaborate ceremony with him on Groundhog Day.
The Bald Eagle was heading to extinction when I was a child. Luckily they outlawed the pesticide that was killing them and they have made a huge comeback! I see them a couple times a week and more often if I go looking for them. 🦅
I'm surprised Laurence didn't mention porcupines or buffalo 🦬
I would love to hear legendary animals from New Zealand. That would be so cool. There are so many mythical creature stories here in the USA. The most famous is Bigfoot.
You have to understand that New Zealand is a very cut off group of Islands and because of that they had no mammals prior to mankind showing up there. Few marsupials at some pretty damn cool Birds though. Unfortunately many of them have been lost due to things like cats and others are very close since they have no defenses for them.
I lived a number of years in Baltimore, Maryland. I left for the state of Washington in the late 2000s (before 2010).
During my residency, I walked or rode buses, so had a pedestrian's eye view of the areas I traveled, and I have to say Baltimore, though very urban, is rich with wildlife.
Birds: hummingbirds, orioles, cardinals, mourning doves, mallards, green herons, great white herons, red-tailed hawks, and bald eagles
Mammals: flying squirrels, squirrels, chipmunks, bats, raccoons, possums, groundhogs, beavers, skunks, coyotes, red foxes (not all red foxes are red), white-tailed deer, and otters
Reptiles: snapping turtles, soft-shell turtles, box turtles, blue-tailed skinks, copperheads, water moccasins, rattlesnakes, rat snakes
Amphibians: spring peepers, leopard frogs, and a variety of salamanders and newts
This is a short list of the creatures I personally have encountered that walk the streets and properties of Baltimore.
I feel good about the fact that I've seen bald eagles in the wild in Maryland and in Washington state. But then, I've also seen raccoons in both places.
Ah, orioles! They have disappeared from my part of Ohio, sadly. I miss them. We are finally seeing bald eagles here and there!
Funny groundhog story. 5 years ago or so wife and I started what's called a lasagna garden, called so because you build it about 4' x 4' and you layer different things before putting in the soil to prevent weeds. Anyhoo, we planted tomatoes, zucchini, cucumbers, peppers, and romaine lettuce(guess you can call it a salad garden). Well, everything was growing beautifully. Especially the lettuce. We had about 4 beautiful heads of lettuce. I took great pride showing this to my father in law who was at my house for a project we were doing. Well, we had to run out to get some supplies. When we returned, I noticed the lettuce was gone down to the nub. All 4 heads, gone. Freaking groundhogs ate it while we were gone. Took only an hour. Found out I had a family of groundhogs living under my shed.
Most here in Kentucky call them possums. They consume a lot of ticks which was a real issue this summer.
Here in the city in California we have quite a few coyotes...I see them on the security cameras at night - there are stories ALL THE TIME on Nextdoor of them shredding cats to pieces. Also, when I lived in San Diego (although this can happen anywhere) my co-worker had her 7-month old chihuahua scooped up by a hawk in her backyard...possibly a Harrier or Red-tailed Hawk. What a horrible way to die!! 😱
I used to think hawks couldn't survive in the cities but given how much pets and rodents live there, i could see why they could survive.
Coyotes are pack hunters that are comfortable in suburban neighborhoods. They eat cats and small dogs, so apart from cars, they're a huge reason why the US has heavily shifted to indoor-only pets.
Cindy's Dad here. The Groundhog is a type of ground squirrel belonging to the marmot family, and therefore are rodents. They do hibernate during the winter when the temperature drops far enough.
It's pretty cool to see their marmot cousins in the Rockies, if you get up above tree line. They are bigger and fluffier than their woodchuck cousins, and they have no fear of people. They will come out of the rocks and look at you like "What the heck are you doing here?" Not so cool to see groundhogs around your house. Dimes to dollars they are digging underneath something you own, like the house itself.
All summer long I sat in my yard and watched the groundhogs climb my fruit trees, they seemed to really like the mulberries. Didn't even know they climbed well.
Ohio here and I've got one living under my shed... Thing is an absolute unit, my 20lb tom cat is often seen laying in the shade with it in the summer and it's easy half again bigger than him. Crazy to see mega rat just cuddled up with Mr. Murder fingers.
@@johnalden5821 Several years ago I went on the train up Pike's Peak. The marmots above the tree line sat on the rocks near the tracks when the train was coming, hoping for a handout. Marmots are often referred to as "whistle pigs", due to one of their vocalizations. Cute to see them sitting up on a rock watching and waiting.
@@haroldwilbert4377 The cat won't mess with hoss, eh?
Skunks are nothing to sneeze at. Back in early 2018, both of our dogs escaped our fenced-in yard. (One of the gates wasn't fully latched.) The oldest dog
(Who would later die just a few months later at the age of 17) walked his way back before noon that day. (He was familiar with the area because he was a reroaming dog for the first several years of his life.) But the youngest, about 8 years old at the time, was not familiar with the area that much, as she had been fenced I her entire life. Well, she did not return. She was gone forever, it seemed...until exactly one week later, when she feverishly scratched at my front door one evening. I let her in...and she smelled like SKUNK something awful. So what I figured happened was that both dogs got out, encountered a skunk, and tne youngest got sprayed with their Scent , and was unable to smell herself home, until it wore off enough for her to do so. If it can mess up a dog's sense of smell, you know it's gotta be potent. But it's funny, once we got my puppy cleaned up, she was so loving towards us, being g9ne for a week and having to scrounge for food and water, she was just so grateful for being home. And this was in February when we were having quite a Cold snap with 20°F (-7°C) weather.
Wassup guys! Good to see another reaction video. Sending love and prayers from sunny California 🇺🇸❤️🇳🇿
The groundhog is found all over the US. We have tons of them here in Illinois. Plus we never call the Opossum with the O. We just call them Possums and while they look evil, I had one as a pet growing up and it was accually sweet and loving.
We also have what is called "Key Deer". They are only found in the Florida Keys. Full grown about the size of a golden retriever dog. They are protected as there is less than 200.
I have seen them -- and actually camped on one of the keys where they are protected. They are the sweetest little things, especially the fawns, which are the size of a welsh corgi. The Vaca Raccoons, though, are not so cute. Those guys are some scurvy-looking varmints.
Key Deer are the cutest little things!!
Mostly in which Keys?
@@Ira88881
I don't know the exact name of the Island they are on.
@@Ira88881
I looked it up....
The Key deer can only be found from Big Pine Key to Sugarloaf Key.
About mid way between key West and the main land.
Dear God in Heaven! We were camping in the N.C. mountains and nearly every campsite was taken. Around 2:30 AM something pissed off a skunk so much that his ass exploded. Sleep was impossible. Kids were crying and people were throwing up. This continued for around 4 hours. There were no streetlights or any light for that matter. Evacuating in pitch dark would be difficult considering the sheer number of people. As soon as the first rays of the sun were up and we could see EVERYONE packed up and left. We went to a hotel and the people in the rooms on either side of us had been at the campsite too. We all had the story of people running for their lives as one skunk took out 750 people!
I've had 2 pet raccoons. They are very loving and playful but also very smart, hardheaded and mischievous.
You guys are awesome. I live in Rhode Island USA. We encounter every animal shown except the mule deer sometimes daily most the time we ain't paying attention. Wild life ignores you if you ignore it
awesome? how so? they're a bunch of hicks with no content of their own, so they react to other people's already existing reaction videos ... how exactly this that degree of laziness considered "awesome"??
I grew up in Chicago then moved to the suburbs. A few years ago there were "rumors" of a panther roaming around the city and suburbs. "Hey, well, you know, that's so unlikely it's just ..." Whoa, it was a real panther (though we usually call them cougars or mountain lions). Funny I don't remember the outcome, if it was captured or chose to move on.
I've heard a few stories about Chicago having Mountain Lions. Never really paid attention to it.
I saw a bald eagle soaring over my therapist's office the other day. Right in the middle of the city. Michigan is great. 😂
I saw my first wild bald eagle last year here in Kentucky. I've seen them in the zoo and on TV but never in the wild. I was driving home and had to cross over a reservoir. As I was on the bridge, an eagle flew up from the water and was at eye level as I drove over. It was awesome.😍 The coyotes now hunt in cities and urban areas as well. They will hunt cats and small dogs in these areas.
I live in SW Pennsylvania, and I have never seen a bald eagle in the wild until this year. I have seen two...hope to see more.
We had a pair hanging around our property in E KY this spring, was fortunate enough to get a couple of photos of them.
I heard you also have orcs, goblins, elves, dwarves, hobbits, wizards, elyphonts, and dragons down there in your stunningly beautiful country. Cant wait till you all get over..... Its getting closer. ❤ from Fla USA
Fun fact… actually very sad fact is the first animal I accidentally hit w my car was a opossum (pronounced “possum”) I live in the country and they’re everywhere!! My sister had a mom and babies living in her house for a little bit before she noticed the new tenants😭
I've heard they can be quite vicious, but I think they are quite cute, and actually had one come and cuddle up with me, when I was sleeping outdoors once.
A few years ago I ran one over in my own driveway! I was backing out about to head to work in the morning when I felt the thud. It must have been hunkered down in front of the rear tire, so I was at normal backup speed when the front tire rolled over it. It was a full adult size, probably 20 pounds or so. I felt pretty bad because it took awhile to die. I live in the city, although there are 2 wildlife preserve areas within a mile of my home, so it's not uncommon for animals to roam into our neighborhood.
actually it is called an opossum, with the O being said. we just called em possums but possums are actually a different animal, like the Australian possum
That's how we know it's spring, by the dead opossum and skunks dead on the road.
@@jean-paulaudette9246 They can make themselves look quite vicious, but they genuinely seem quite harmless in reality (though I would not grab one with my bare hands). They walk my backyard fence. If my dogs see one and start barking the opossum freezes in place and will NOT move (I cannot get it to move along by pushing it) and the dogs will NOT stop barking until I remedy the situation by pushing the opossum over the fence with the bristles of a broom (then it scampers away and the dogs stop barking).
The California Condor! The 'real' baldheaded bird (Vulture) - the biggest bird that was almost extinct from lead and poisons but now flourishing again thanks to intense breeding programs.
The Whooping Crane is also making a comeback. From 21 in the wild in 1941 to around 800 today. There is also a species of sea turtle in south Texas that is making a comeback from near extinction on the Padre islands.
Came home late from work one night and found 5 raccoons on my porch helping themselves to some food I'd left out for a couple of neighborhood stray cats. I live in the middle of a city but close to a river and have had frequent sightings of several of the animals in this video. Hope you're enjoying your American tour!
Please stop feeding "stray" (read: feral) cats. They're an invasive species and kill birds.
I live in Northern Indiana and I've seen several groundhogs! They just hide A LOT. They rarely just run around in the daytime doing things. Very sneaky. But I've been here my whole life so I've seen a few.
We live in Southwest Florida and have a couple of trash pandas that live in the palms behind our house. I'm a night owl so I see them late at night. They are very well behaved and never get into our trash bins that are just 20 ft away. Plenty of lizards and fruit trees for them to eat around here so they probably don't need to get into the trash.
If your dog gets skunked it is awful. If a skunk sprays outside or gets run over…it smells like marijuana. If you live in a garden-type apartment complex you will quickly realize that it is overrun with skunks or all your neighbours smoke pot. All my neighbours smoke pot, 24/7. (Legal here in CA.)
Possums are actually very beneficial to our environment, and they will keep other small rodents away also they don't bother you. I am very fortunate to see eagles all the time and I am always in awe when I see such beautiful birds of prey. We have so many beautiful animals and birds here in Michigan and all throughout the United States. Every country has been blessed with beautiful creatures, and it's wonderful to see people like yourselves showing them.
Possums are adorable, but can be quite mean. I had a family of them under my house once and the babies kept getting up through a vent I couldn't quite keep screwed knto it's hole in the floor. Momma would come to collect it, hiss and charge at you then grab the baby and go back down the way she came in.
@libertybell8852 to be fair you are a big scarry giants to them.
I live in Nacogdoches, Texas and I hope you enjoy your traveling through our great state! Giving y'all a huge Texas welcome!!!
I had a friend that had a pet skunk. Her name was Petunia and she was THE SWEETEST THING! They remove their scent gland which renders them helpless so they must be kept inside. She was litter trained and when I picked her up she put her front paws on both sides of my neck and laid her head against my shoulder. I’ve always wanted one since. They come in black and gray. She was gray with white stripes. 🥰
Raccoons were introduced to Japan in the 1970’s. There was a Japanese cartoon series about the adventures of Rascal the raccoon, which was an American children’s book series. The Japanese imported ~1200 baby raccoons per year as pets. Unfortunately they quickly outgrew the small Japanese homes and became unmanageable. They were released into the wild. Without natural predators, raccoon population exploded. This problem was exasperated at the end of the cartoon series, when Rascal was release into the woods ‘where they belong’.
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Bald Eagle do what is called death spiral it's a courtship they go way up about 1000ft and fall to the ground to the last minute they separate. Racoons are very smart and cute. We also have Wolfe's Moose, Black Bears, Grizzly Bears, Theory Devil, you should look at all the extinct animals from America
Oppossums are cute as heck when they are babies. The adults are totally weird looking, but they seem to be relatively gentle, sweet animals.
The NZ, and Australian ones aren't. Pretty much the Trash Panda from hell.
Opposums are also one of the few animals to groom themselves and pick off ticks while doing it.
Their low body temperature also makes them practically immune to rabies
Every single time ive ever seen a possum here in the US they are super aggressive and incredible mean
Ive seen possums charge out from hidden places and run up to other animals and just attack viciously an animal just minding there own business. In my experience possums r pound for pound the most violent and aggresive animal ive ever encountered in the wild
In the midwest, large predatory birds have made a huge comeback in my lifetime. I'm nearly 50, and when I was a child in the 80's, you didn't see red-tailed hawks or bald eagles...at all. Today, they can be found all across the midwest, in prairies, woodlands, and along rivers. The reason we didn't have them when I was young is a sad story.
In the 1960's & 70's they used DDT to poison pest bugs in fields and forests...it was HIGHLY effective at killing bugs, and it didn't kill other animals. At least, not directly. Large predatory birds (like red-tailed hawks) ate rodents who had been exposed...it didn't kill the rats or the hawks. Bald eagles ate fish and carcasses of animals who had been exposed to DDT...it didn't kill the fish or the eagles. Large waterfowl also ate fish, and they weren't killed either. Same goes for owls and many other birds. It didn't kill the animals directly...what it did was make their egg shells brittle...very brittle. So brittle that a nesting bald eagle (or other large bird) would crush the shells, therefor they couldn't successfully reproduce, and in the long run, it meant vast numbers of bird species died out in areas where DDT had been used. Eventually scientists and environmentalists found the cause of the problem, and it lead to the ban of the bug poison. It wasn't until the late 80's or even mid-90's before people started to see bald eagles again in our area, and return the wonder of seeing the majestic animal. Today, they're so common, I see multiple bald eagles every day driving for work. You won' t see them in cities obviously, but in any rural area, they aren't hard to find. They nest here all year round. I've seen multiple bald eagles, as well as turkey vultures, surrounding a deer carcass in a snowy field mid-winter, after the deer was struck by a car and limped into the field where it died. The eagles are top predators among birds, and they're every bit as beautiful as turkey vultures are ugly. Turkey vultures have featherless, red-heads, and black feathered bodies. They're also found year-round, often circling high above in search of dead deer or other road kill. And boy do we have lots of red-tailed hawks, and other smaller falcons as well. All these birds made dramatic comebacks in my lifetime.
Yep. I didn't know the story about ddt but I was thinking the same about the blade eagles and turkey vultures. See them all the time.
eagles don't typically live near a city unless the city is near a large body of water and has trees. hawks can be found in cities as long as the hawks could find prey.
I love how interested and vocal Denzel is in this reaction lol!
My personal opinion, baked Raccoon and sweet potatoes is wonderful. Also, baked Beaver. Good eating.😊
Wow, that guy used the worst possible picture of a mule deer I've ever seen. They're about 20-30% bigger than whitetailed deer and grow somewhat more majestic antlers (the males). Such a majestic animal to be represented by the picture he used 😞
Hello nz fam 😊 not criticizing Lawrence, because i love him and Tara, but he spelled raccoon wrong. 🦝 I love the idea of telling us about NZ things compared to other countries. I don't know a lot about ur country but am definitely curious to learn. Glad u all had a great trip. * 2 people in the comments spelled racCoon wrong too lol
I have coyote's running around my neighborhood all the time.. They are always in my yard early morning... but that's because we also have wild rabbits living in the neighborhood as well. Arizona is amazing for wild animals... the desert for sure!! lol
Another name for ground hog is woodchuck. There is a word game where you try to say the following three times as fast as you can. "How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck would chuck wood?"
If you want to see all of these in the same season (except muule deer, have to go to the Rockies for those), come to the Mississippi River in the winter. Grafton, Illinois, hosts bald eagles during the winter, & you can see them all over the place. Ground hogs can get huge & wreck a car if hit. As for skunks, smell one for the first time & you'll never forget it...ever.
When you travel to the states, you may run across prairie dogs (cute little varmints), armadillos (not so cute), and long horn cattle (especially in Ft. Worth, TX).
Loving your content, but it would be great if you could output the audio from these videos directly into the recording software so it doesn't sound like a big echo chamber. It get's hard to hear sometimes for me.
I have a fig tree that has become a sort of fruit pub for local wildlife. Sure I will sit around with squirrels, raccoons, foxes, and possums. I've named the ones who keep coming back and they've probably named me. However, it's time to scramble for the door and hide inside when a skunk arrives. They must be really lonely out there.
Indiana is directly below my state Michigan and Ohio is right below us and they are our college football rivals. This is also the home of America's Football team the Detroit Lions.
Though “opossum” is sometimes shortened to “possum” in North America, with the two words often being used synonymously, this is technically a misnomer. The proper name for the scaly-tailed creature with a pointed head (that may be baring its teeth) is opossum.
The O is silent in opossum. Mule deer are very common here in Utah. I get coyotes behind my house. The condor is huge and native, but rare, in the western USA.
Prairie dogs, marmots, and cougars are common here in utah too.
I had full black Pomeranian dog, one night let him out to go potty, went back to let him back in and dang near had a heart attack seeing him an and a skunk sniffing each other in the back corner of the backyard. The balance I had to have of calling him back in and not scaring the skunk was insane. My Bearbear made it back in without getting sprayed, and I’m convinced that skunk thought he was one of them. 😂😂
Living in Illinois along the Mississippi River, we have a lot of bald eagles winter here. It's really neat to see 20 of them up in a tree. And there are many pairs that nest and raise their young ones around here.
The largest Eagle I saw was at a Sanctuary for injured wildlife. It measured 4ft. Tall, the wing was mangled.
I had a pet raccoon I named Rocky. He was a baby when I found him. He used to crawl up my legs and body and nibble at my ears. I eventually gave to a bar/restaurant owner who let him eat the scraps they threw out every night.
We had a couple raccoons as pets when i was little. ( like 5 ish years old) 1 the female was very clean she would wash her paws in the water dish after eating. The male was a slob and a theif he had a stash under my moms dresser. If you were missing a hairbrush, watch, certain toys ect.. go check bandits stash.
Here's a little ditty we say in the northeast... "How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? He would chuck, he would, as much as he could and chuck as much wood as a woodchuck would if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
I've lived in America almost my entire life, I spent three years in England. The only time I've ever seen bald eagles was at an aviary in England.
I think they should weaponize skunk spray. that would make any army give up
FYI the "O" in Opossum is silent. I'm surprised his wife didn't correct him lol
I live in the country in central Illinois and see most of those routinely, the bald eagles less frequently. A trip further north in Illinois and they are everywhere.
I had trash pandas that would come to my door every night for a snack,I didn't start feeding them the woman that owned the house before me would feed them and I didn't have the heart not to give them their nightly snacks
When I lived on Nob Hill in SF, we had a family of foxes. SF’s Golden Gate Park is replete with wildlife, plus there is the Bison Paddock. No escape in the Bay Area from mountain lions, deer, wild turkeys.
The most famous groundhog in the world is none other than Punxsutawney Phil, who is used by weathermen around the globe to predict the coming of Spring every February 2nd. In fact, as you pointed out, the movie Groundhog Day was filmed in Punxsutawney, and other than the actors, the festival is a real thing. Thousands of people show up even before the sun rises to watch a group of men in Tuxedoes pull a groundhog out of a cage and then read from a scroll to say whether winter will linger or if spring is coming. Ironically, if you count from February 2nd, it is literally SIX WEEKS before the first day of spring anyway.
Moehau is one of my favorite New Zealand folklore/cyptid, basically your version of Bigfoot . creature said to dwell in the Coromandel-Moehau ranges of New Zealand's North Island.
So a key to remember with this video is the title "Animals I encountered in the US". He lives/lived in the Midwest. Being from the suburban Midwest all of these animals except the mule deer are pretty common. Most of these animals are pretty common in suburban areas with the exception of the Bald Eagle, but the Bald Eagle has been making an incredible come back and expanding its range.
I will say most Americans actually really like our furry and feathered friends. You just have to remember certain statistics like in 1900 there were 500K white tailed deer across North America and 76.3 million people. Now there are 30 million white tail deer and 331 million people. Alot of medium to large animal species are way more common now and have expanded ranges and at the same time there are more people in the US than ever. There is just alot of human wildlife interaction. So while we may complain when animals eat our garbage, garden, or pets we still love them.
If you want to see some funny videos look up wheen canada geese attack, when turkeys attack, or deer / bear / racoon break ins.
I was in Wal-mart a couple years ago and a woman was carrying a live raccoon like a child
Just to let you know the Coyote is a city dwelling animal. I live about 2 miles from Disneyland, no I don’t go there all the time, it’s too expensive, and meaning we are miles from the countryside, we were warned not to leave our small dogs out at night, they could be eaten by the Coyotes. Also, when I lived in Redondo Beach, when I jogged early in the morning, 4AM, every once in a while, I would see Coyote. Don’t worry about them harming you, they are very afraid of humans. Also, welcome to the US. I hope everyone will make you feel welcome here.🤗
They've adapted to the city because it's easy to find discarded food or small animals where there are lots of humans. The city is not, however, their primary habitat.
He should have talked about the most famous of all our animals: Bigfoot.
I've got raccoons, opossums, squirrels, mantises, butterflies, dragonflies, mockingbirds, blue jays, lizards, and frogs, hanging around my yard in the middle of Houston.
My parents have a whole Disney Princess fairytale thing going on in their yard in Montana, with foxes, herds of deer, black bears, blue birds, chipmunks, butterflies, cranes, etc just naturally hanging out. And they live just down the road from HUGE herds of bison, and random elk. Occasional moose.
I live in rural Texas and we call racoons "trash pandas." They are cute but they get into everything and can be rather vicious. They also carry rabies. Possums are shy and docile unless cornered and do not carry rabies. I leave fruit and raw veggies out for the ones that live in our trees because they eat ticks in droves. Sad that he didn't mention our nine-banded armadillos or our bobcats. We also have rattlers, copperheads, coral snakes and cotton-mouthed water moccasins, black widows, brown recluse spiders and scorpions. But other than that it's a great place. And the BBQ is to die for. HA!
Don't forget your big Tarantulas .
The current largest bird is the California Condor.
The story of Moose in New Zealand is very interesting. They were there and were thought to have been killed off, but sightings have persisted and an antler has been found in recent years. There’s probably a small population yet.
I've seen all of those that he mentioned, plus a couple of other interesting ones (rattlesnakes, black bears, pronghorn antelopes). I had a close encounter with a possum ("opossum" is the actual name) once when my brother and I were hiking across an open field and came across one in a box trap. Feeling bad for it, we were inclined to let it out, but the possum's attitude (hissing, spitting and baring teeth) made us wonder if we could manage it without getting chewed. Sorry about that, Brer Possum.
I'm in northeastern Illinois about 35 miles north of Chicago. We have all of these except the mule deer. They're out west. Opossums AKA possums are actually as cute as can be. There are occasionally "coyote warnings" in the local forest preserves during the season when coyotes have their pups and are more aggressive.
I almost never see raccoons around here. Haven't for years. Then a couple months ago one started coming into my back yard to eat the food we put out for the local fox. We stopped putting the food out for a couple days and the raccoon moved on.
Skunks can be pets but they have their scent gland removed. Some may find this inhumane.
Laurence's videos are addicting.
The raccoon suit in Mario isn't a raccoon, it's a tanuki. They look similar to a raccoon and are found all over Japan.
When I first saw a bald eagle, my first impression was it being huge. I never pictured them being that large and instant respect comes across when I see them.
As a resident of Pennsylvania, you guys should research Punxutawney Phil. He is the most famous groundhog on the east coast. He and his descendants have been around since 1887. We have all of these animals in Pennsylvania. I hope you get a chance to see some of these on your trip!
Punxutawney Phil is actually the most famous groundhog in the world.
I have a 5lb doggie that loves to act like he's half wolf and we live in mid Michigan. He's had a couple encounters with skunks and racoons. No porcupines. I ran out of my shoes when I saw a frozen opossum under my porch. In Texas there were armadillos and prairie dogs, jack rabbits and squirrels.
Ah yes! I forgot to mention the beloved armadillo. One showed up on my front lawn last year around 5:00 am foraging. And another bird seen in Texas typically south of I-10 is the Caracara. My daughter and I mistakenly thought it was a bald eagle. They look similar from a distance and typically are seen in pairs.
@plmintexas509 I lived in the panhandle when we went to the valley the roads were covered in tarantulas and we would see road runners all the time. And even saw a badger. There's lots of wildlife especially in Texas.
wish they would have shown the Bison.
Pacific Northwest USA including my State Oregon, has many species of mammals, birds, reptile. 13 species of Squirrel, 5 species Chipmunk, Western Spotted Skunk, Striped Skunk, American Marten, Fisher, Ermine, Long-tailed Weasel, Mink, American Badger, American Pika, Pygmy Rabbit, Brush Rabbit, Eastern Cottontail, Mountain Cottontail, Snowshoe Hare, Blacktailed Jackrabbit, Whitetailed Jackrabbit, Yellow Bellied Marmot, Mountain Beaver, Ringtail Raccoon, Raccoon, Sea Otter, River Otter, American Black Bear, Wolf, Elk, Moose, Cougar, Coyote, Bobcat, Fox, Porcupine, Beaver (State Mascot), Seal, Killer Whale, Mountain Goat, Longhorn Sheep, Nutria, Mole, Muskrat, Gopher, Pronghorn Antelope, Wolverine, Canadian Geese, Crows, Pigeon, Seagull, Magpie, Badger, American Blacktail Deer, Columbian Blacktail Deer, Columbian Whitetail Deer, Weasel, Bighorn Sheep, Canadian Lynx, Spotted Owl, Great Horned Owl, Peregrine Falcon, Woodpecker, Blue Heron, Robin, Swallows, Wild Turkey, Mountain Grouse, and many species of Bats. Don't forget Sasquatch aka Bigfoot.