Scared British Guy reacts to "Deadly Animals Lurking in American Backyards"

[@MoreAdamCouser]

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[@donniemjr75]

The last example tells you everything you need to know about bear spray. It doesn't always work.

[@mystikarain]

I still believe chickens are decedents of velocerapters!

[@theaccidentalcook8557]

@@mystikarain agree. But more closely related are Cassowarys. They're terrifying😅

[@theaccidentalcook8557]

@donniemjr75 💯 especially when the one using it is a numbskull who didn't read the instructions properly😇

[@aaronward5612]

7x13=28.....

[@professionalvampire1]

The trouble with protecting yourself from scorpions by wearing shoes is that scorpions like to hide in shoes. Anyone who lives near scorpions knows to shake out their shoes before putting them on - there might be something in there that doesn't want to be squished by toes!

[@robertsmith4681]

A lot of people carry large ziploc bags and seal their shoes in them for that exact reason. Even if you shake them off there is no guarantee that it will come out and you may be stung on the hand if one does fall out of your shoe while trying to shake it out.

[@lightsalt8530]

​@@robertsmith4681this is exactly what I do. I have a severe allergy to venom. Bees, wasps, scorpions and fire ants. I live in the South so it's a problem lol.

[@n8v_willie]

I always pack a black light flash light when camping. Making sure there aren’t scorpions in my shoes, or the loo lol Or even at home I always shake out my slippers lol

[@ZeroTolerance-tk9ce]

I live in the east so fortunately we don't have to deal with scorpions. I do have to check my shoes for Black Widows.

[@PaulHill-r8t]

Rattle snakes do not normally atack you they warn youbefore you get close enouph to get bit, although if it is cool out they might not. but if they are cold they normaly do not strike unless you are on top of them. i have found one Mohave green that did not rattle at me but he was cold after a rainstorm on the San Pedro river near Toumbston and a Diomandback western type near Cochise stronghold Arizona. and for the scorpians in your house i usally put pickle jars in my snake boots so they can not get in the toes and sting me. and olive jars in my laceup boots and tihgten the laces. snd do not put anything against the walls. allways carry a gun 10mm or bigger with FMJ. or hardend bullets.

[@deborahbreeden4394]

As a lifelong Floridian, every body of water has alligators. I've been in a canoe surrounded by alligators. They usually attack after people feed them, when provoked or at dawn or dusk. I've seen scores of alligators and never seen them be aggressive.

[@CountAdolfo]

Absolutely. If the water is wet... it's got a gator or will...

[@Ron-d2s]

I live in a valley, the next valley over is called The Rattlesnake!

[@DS-ub1jm]

Yup. I don’t trust it if I can’t see the bottom and even then I keep an eye on it😂 not to mention snakes

[@bemusedbandersnatch2069]

It's cuz alligators are usually smaller and less aggressive than crocodiles. Them smiley bastards will absolutely fuck up your shit if they can, but not like crocs will.

[@CherylHughes-ts9jz]

I have a photo of my grandma petting an alligator in a Florida swamp😅

[@Quiet.Katie.]

Farm girl here. Cows are fiercely protective of their calves. They will kill you. When they no longer have a calf they are extremely docile, usually 😊 Deer accidents are a right of passage in my area. You learn to constantly scan for them, day or night.

[@splatninja9447]

I moved from the desert to up north. Yeah, deer are everywhere and God help you if your head isn't on a swivel. Also, I kind of hate them now. They all seem to have a death wish. Like just a couple weeks ago I had a young buck wait until I was like 15 feet away before he decided "yeah, sure I'll cross the road now."

[@broncobra]

One would think deer would be the smartest animals on the planet, after all of the stupid ones have been weeded out. One would be wrong.

[@TheCrunchbite]

@@broncobrathere’s no such thing as a smart deer, they’re literally all stupid lol

[@tearsinmycoke]

Nothing worse then driving down the road at night and looking over and seeing 30 glowing eyes waiting to dart in front of you at any second. Ahhh American driving.🙃

[@jessedriscoll4447]

@@broncobra deer are actually hilarious, because in the woods they're one of the smartest animals out there they outsmart thousands of hunters every year, but for some reason when they come across that little black like through the woods... it all falls to shit

[@albertchambers1307]

When I lived in the Klamath Indian Reservation in Northern California, we had a couple of hundred black angus and about 80 black bear on the land, One black bear got in the house to get a salmon that my mother was getting ready to cook. We had a cougar that hung out on the roof, crying for my sister to come out for a walk. I got bit by a rattler when I was working at a shipyard in San Pedro, California - which actually had antivenin at hand. There are no safe places.

[@KingNothing2x4]

same thing happened to me

[@YasmineGalenornOfficial]

I grew up in rattlesnake and black widow country. I was taught from the time I could walk to never stick my hand into a bush outside without looking first, or into a hole in the ground. We have cougar sightings around here, and now and then bear sightings. There are bobcats also...and coyotes are common in the suburbs. (Near Seattle WA).

[@janfitzgerald3615]

Yup, we have bobcats, cougars, coyotes, black bears and deer around our neighborhood in Port Orchard. The cougars usually stay outside the neighborhood but have been seen in trails. Occasionally a bobcat has come in someone’s backyard and the bears have raided bird feeders, the coyotes usually stay outside the neighborhood too, but you can sometimes hear them at night, especially during mating season. I lived in the Tri Cities for awhile, we had rattlesnakes and black widows there.

[@lyonanddebanderson4418]

you have very few sightings of any of those, quit playing into this BS. Know what you are talking about, you are a liar.

[@TheCrunchbite]

Come to the south! We have that and more!

Same down here in Southern CA where even the normally venomous southern pacific rattlesnake has developed a hybrid strain with the Mojave rattlesnake in some higher habitats and can now easily kill a person. Mountain lions routinely use San Diego and Riverside county green belts and river bottoms as highways in and out of the suburbs. I have also nearly hit several black bears with a car, narrowly missing them in the dark.

[@dramspringfeald]

Humans are superior, and we elect the right to ALWAYS poke it with a stick.

[@cindyshell]

"Attacked" by rattlesnakes is a bit pejorative. They do not go out of their way to bite humans. Most bites are from people messing with them (or accidentally stepping on them). They are painful and have a long recovery time, but they are not typically fatal. Also - scorpions love to be tucked into your shoes. Always shake them out before putting them on! We are avid hikers. Here is what you need to know about bears: "If it's brown, lie down; if it's black, fight back; if it's white, good night."

[@jodibraun6383]

Also, never ever get in between a mama bear and her cubs. In fact, don't go near cubs, because mama isn't far away and won't be pleased.

[@MeanBeanComedy]

People keep saying that, but most polar bear attacks are not fatal.

[@patriciacole3030]

Yes, alligators and crocodiles have been around since dinosaurs. They are virtually unchanged since then.

[@kellygears8514]

The only thing that happened to them. Is that they shrunk!!!!!

[@josephcarroll8262]

We call them "swamp puppies."

[@TheCrunchbite]

@@josephcarroll8262they’re cute swamp puppies lol

[@MsMorri]

I think they’ve been around longer, or earlier versions of them.

[@erikjaroy8214]

They're literally older than TREES!

[@broncobra]

Rattlesnakes will usually warn you by "ratteling" the round rattles on their tail. It's best to heed that distictive sound, stop, and slowly back away.

[@jamesaritchie1]

Where I live, and in many other areas, rattlesnakes very seldom rattle. This is normal. Over the last couple of hundred years, rattlesnakes that rattled were the first to be killed. The quiet ones survived, and the noisy ones were killed. They have adapted. We tried to make rattlesnakes rattle. Very few of them do, even when provoked.

[@broncobra]

@@jamesaritchie1 Yeah, well one would think deer would be the smartest animal on the planet, after all of the dumb ones being killed off? ROFLMAO? It is NOT so?

[@brentharlow3559]

Same here, the wild pigs started eating the ones that rattled in our area. The remaining ons just lie there and pray nothing spots them.

[@MichaelCrawford-me1rg]

Cutting through the neighbor's pasture, when I was a kid, and as I got close to the cows, they formed a defensive posture: calves in a tight group, heifers in a semi-circle in front of them, bulls in a semi-circle in front of them. I suddenly remembered how a bull chased my brother across that same pasture, once, and decided I didn't need to cut across there to get where I was going.

[@Elevatedzebra96]

Pretty sure Tim McGraw explains that in a song “down on the farm” 🎶don’t mess with the bull he can get real mean. don’t forget to shut the gate. Stay out of the beans.🎶

[@Repugnantone]

@@Elevatedzebra96 Hence the age old adage. If you mess with the bull, you'll get the horns!

[@Plasmacore_V]

As kids my great uncle told my brother he could have a calf if he could catch it. Just watch out for the bulls. When asked how do you tell which are the bulls he said, "they're the ones not running away from you."

[@Michael1777-1]

Dude your funny and accurate

[@GodelFishbreath]

Visited my uncle like twice growing up, he was in another state. Near him was a farm, on the farm was a cow. we got intothe same field, farmer came out told us that the cow had just lost her calf to the slaughter house and was not safe. So we (me and sibs) left. I think that she might have been aware of the difference between the farmer and us, but when asked we left.

[@olivemy_life4441]

We have a really bad issues around here with coyote dogs. People will dump their dogs in the parks, they breed with coyotes, and create a larger wild dog pretty much. It’s honestly terrifying

[@geistdylan]

I can't tell you how horrifying it is to hear a pack of coyotes getting closer and closer and closer when you're locked outside your house at 3am in the pitch dark. Middle of nowhere country town. Scariest moment of my life

[@lianabaddley8217]

This happened to my younger daughter and her boyfriend. Except they were at a lake. The boat died. They were going for help. It was night. They said they kept seeing eyes all around. Luckily, they found a shed they could get on top of. They had to call 911. Sheriff got out there to them before I could and finished scaring the pack away.

[@GodelFishbreath]

Coy-dogs are the result of matinig coyote and dog. Size depends on the dog. I saw a pack that looked iike their parent mated with a saint beanard.

You hear them in an unknown number, close by but you can't see them. It is unnerving, even when you are hunting with several other armed friends and in motion predawn on your way to your setup.

[@corinna007]

I was visiting my dad once; it was already dark, and we could hear a pack of them really close. He went to get one of his guns, and as soon as I opened the door to the deck I saw one run by the steps.

[@kathleenhensley5951]

The first time I heard a pack of coyotes I compared their howls to the crying of lost souls. Very, very haunting.

[@ClaireRedfieldKennedy-ld2lx]

8:56 Yes, coyotes killing pets is a problem. They very rarely attack people unless they're frightened because coyotes just don't eat people.

[@sultryjmac]

coyotes and wolves know better. There is an intelligence in their eyes and you can tell they know if they start that fight, they will lose.

[@twobitsandpepper8235]

They will actually try to lure dogs out to go 'run with them', and then the pack will show up and have a feast on the dog.

[@rebeccajolley8291]

My mother was raised in Idaho and one winter night when she was a child (1949ish) she went out to the outhouse and had snow from the tree above it knocked down on her by a mountain lion that had taken refuge in the tree for the night. When my grandfather went out the next morning he found claw marks all over the tree and paw prints the size of dinner plates all around the outhouse.

[@MichaelCrawford-me1rg]

Moms were tough when they were girls!

[@jamesaritchie1]

Cougars are very good at climing trees. A lot better than people. If that cougar wanted her, it would have gone up the tree after her.

[@heathermcteer9581]

The child that was attacked in Florida at Disney. The parents stated that they didn't think Disney would allow gators in the park! They allowed that poor child to play at the edge of the pond. Gators are everywhere in Florida, Disney or not. Poor child.😢

[@eponine1966]

There's a reason why deer hunting exists. Controlling their numbers is not only important for humans but the deer population as well. Lyme disease from ticks on the deer also is an issue. Coyotes can be a problem for farmers, but honestly never been afraid of them. Their yips can sound frightening if you're not used to it though.

[@BillyMonroe]

Yea but outside of car accidents or vehicle damage have you ever heard or seen deer hurt a human ?

[@xtinkerbellax3]

Sad we have to kill animals because we've developed too much of their habitat and destroyed ecosystems and food chains. Humans really are the most destructive species.

[@GinjerFour]

​@@BillyMonroe Yes actually... There's hundreds of cases where Bucks have charged people and killed them with their antlers. Deer have incredibly strong legs for kicking and running so just imagine a 100lb deer running at you antlers first. You'd be lucky to survive.

[@BillyMonroe]

@@GinjerFour well we have had entirely different experience’s then.

[@maddy6316]

the yips are definitely unnerving, especially when they're being raucous bc they're eating your friend's dog.. not a fun experience and most certainly one i'd like to forget

[@soulsyn4444]

In my neighborhood, we've had deer, foxes, coyotes, cougar, vultures, eagles, hawks, owls, oppsums, squirrels, rabbits & skunks. Nothing surprises us anymore. 😂

[@tshort1975]

I grew up in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia. From the age of 5 on up we went camping, fishing, and hunting. We stayed in the woods growing up. At 13 we walked up on a rattle snake. We backed away slowly but it scared the crap out of me and from that point on, I only go into the woods during the winter. You know, when the snakes go back to hell where they belong. Lol

[@CaraFay-bf8jk]

Same experience with a rattlesnake in the Adirondacks mountains when I was 12. I was walking through the woods, which is about the only entertainment there was in Upstate New York, and stepped onto a large rock. I heard the snake but I couldn’t see it. I got increasingly scared trying to out wait him so I jumped and hit the ground running toward the road. Guess where I never went again.

[@Anarcho-harambeism]

We don't have many rattlesnakes in MO. But we have plenty of cotton mouths and copperhead.

[@mikejschin]

I had a couple of encounters with rattlesnakes while hiking in the Blue Ridge Mountains. The first one I saw in plenty of time, so I maneuvered well away from it. The second one was scary: I missed stepping on it by a few inches and was already a couple of feet past it when I heard the rattle. Turned around and saw it coiled up. Almost jumped out of my skin. It was a very hot day, which probably explains why the snake didn't slither away while I was approaching.

[@cassandrahepp6445]

A girl I know and her friend were followed by 2 mountain lions while out on a hike. One of them got within 10 ft. They actually made the local news. This happened only about 3 months ago. For the record mountain lions are typically solitary animals. It's likely they were siblings who had recently left mom since they typically stay together for a short while after before going their seprate ways.

[@annfrost3323]

The alligator story was altered. Happened about 3-4 years ago at a Disney hotel resort. I believe the family was from Ohio with a 3 year old boy and a baby girl the mother was holding. Boy was playing on water edge in a pond outside the resort. An alligator jumped out of water and grabbed the little boy. The father followed and wrestled the alligator but couldn't rescue the little boy. He was found drowned.

[@julieinthenorthwest4594]

Also, didn't they ignore the fence and signs about gators, IIRC?

[@michelleespino9814]

@@julieinthenorthwest4594Idk but I think the family wanted more signs posted afterwards.

[@Darth-Lesbian]

@@michelleespino9814Being in Florida should have been warning enough. Those damn fools.

[@MarieJackson-sp3be]

I can't tell you how many times I've told tourist to back away from the pretty pond in Flotida. There's always an alligator in there! And they are very fast!

[@MSGill645]

If you are going to a place you don't know, check it out first. Alligators see small bodies as food...cats, dogs, kids. Don't feed them

[@jlcutright0723]

Just moved out of the city last year here in WA and into the countryside. Am happy that the deer love my backyard but still feeling iffy about the black bear that finished off the last of the apples from my trees this past fall. Asked the neighbors and was told, "Oh yeah! She (the bear) goes back and forth between our yard and yours this time of year." 600 pounds of apple-loving bear likes my backyard. Yay??

[@jacquelinejohnson9447]

Scorpions and spiders like shoes. Thats why you always shake your shoes out before putting them on.😅😊❤

[@heatherfroman7031]

So growing up in the woods of Kentucky, used to coyotes, poisonous snakes and spiders and maybe the occasional bear. Then one day I found a scorpion in my house and I left the state. Kidding, I didn't leave because of the scorpion, and I moved to Florida lol we even have friggin monkeys lol. Seriously though I can't deal with scorpions and I was perfectly fine not ever seeing one in Kentucky for over 40 years lol. I've been so close to copperheads and screaming for someone to come get this snake, because it was 2 ft away from me and every time I tried to move it would come closer so I just froze lol and screamed.

[@repoman6508]

Woke up one night with a rattle snake on the headboard of my bed. There is a vent in the floor going to a crawl space he prob came in feeling the warmth. Managed to get him outside without incident, snakes don't really bother me though. I'm in Canada on the edge of the Canadian Shield Rattle snakes are fairly common here and generally warn you well before attacking.

[@MoreAdamCouser]

oh my god...

[@I_Am_L_3]

Ngl i would have freaked out and burned my house down in 5 seconds flat

[@badgerrrlattin35]

That deep into Canada you probably can use rattlers as walking sticks. 😀

[@lonknight3197]

Grew up in Texas in a very old ranch house built out of local rocks in the summertime you always had to check your bed for snakes before climbing in,only saw one Rattle snake but every year we have about a 100 Copperheads, Mom opened the over one day was going to bake our supper and their was a Copper head inside a pan so mom put a lid one the pan an turned the oven to 350, gave the cooked snake to the farm cats, Now scorpions got stung the first day my family moved into that ranch house and i was a baby not yet walking, and it would seem like i would get stung about 2 x a yr. Now immune to them, yellowjackets sting also just annoying, best part of living on that ranch was all animals really loved my Mom so had alot of pets orphaned animals , hurt animals , lost dumped dogs cats , think we actually had one of every North American animal over the 20 yrs we lived there.

[@cayminlast]

We live on the edge of the Everglades National Park near Everglades City, there are all sorts of critters roaming around Gators, Bears, Panthers and an assortment of creepy crawlers that bite.

[@janedyck8852]

Years ago I used to work at a gravel quarry in the office and was told my first day there that no matter how nice the day was to NEVER sit outside and eat lunch as there was a puma (mountain lion) family that lived in the quarry. And in the last couple years a new subdivision was built in a previously wooded area about 2 miles from me and now its very common to hear of coyote sightings up and down the streets of my suburb ......everyone is making sure to keep the pets indoors after dark!

[@maddy6316]

i was out running in texas with my older brother in high school when we stumbled upon a rattlesnake in the middle of the trail. it was a heavily wooded area and the brush was so dense that there was no way around the snake. instead of running 7 miles back the way we came, we decided to jump over it to finish out the last two miles of the loop.. probably one of the dumbest things i've ever done considering it was rattling like it was possessed. we also always had scorpions, black widows, and brown recluses in our home (just the nature of living in the country, those sticky insect traps under the bed really come in handy), neighbors with cattle, and deer and coyotes on our property near our house. desensitization definitely plays a role in people (like my younger self) forgetting that wild animals can actually cause serious harm

[@tfrazie]

I live in the rural mountains of North Carolina. Last month, I saw a beautiful timber rattlesnake in my yard near my back porch. It was big. A week later my husband captured it and we found a local snake rescuer with a special license to transport the snake to a more isolated area with no traffic. Timber rattlers are a protected species. Turns out she was pregnant! 😊 We also have black bears track through the yard most days. But they are very skittish. So are timber rattlers.

[@BubbleNova1991]

Thanks for keeping the snake safe! Way too many people just kill them without a second thought. Snakes are so important and deserve to live in safety too

[@psychokitty7268]

​@BubbleNova1991 Without snakes, we would be overrun by rodents who carry diseases that are far more dangerous than snakes.

[@MorphicStates]

Heh, I walked out my front door one morning to go to work and ran into 3 black bears in my front yard. A mother and her cubs. I had to bolt back inside real fast. You will never convince me they are skittish. 😅😋

[@renpixie]

@@BubbleNova1991 Not if they’re Mohave Greens . Those bast@rds gotta go.

[@averyrichard5177]

@@MorphicStates Black bears are scavengers. They won't eat anything still alive. You would've been fine if you had gone out the back door and ignored them. It's important to know the different responses to different types of bears if you live in areas with lots of bears, like the Blue Ridge Mountains. Playing dead near a grizzly will save your life; they're not interested in prey that's already dead. Meanwhile, playing dead near a black bear is like ringing a dinner bell.

[@ashleyder9164]

4:03 "Florida Man" is a meme for a reason.

[@JIMBEARRI]

I don't know if it's available in the UK, but there's a cable TV program called "The Incredible Dr. Pol". He's a veterinarian in rural Michigan. A good part of his business involves treating farm animals. Yes, cows are dangerous, particularly the Black Angus breed. His constant warning is "Never turn your back on an Angus !" There have been many times on the program where the vets have narrowly missed being seriously injured.

[@caseyb4425]

My mom would tell us about driving her father's logging truck in the deep dark hollers here in Middle Tennessee. Once she came upon a fallen log that stretched across the width of the road. Knowing the old truck was high enough off the road she figured she could easily drive over it. As the front tires started to climb over the log...it shifted, throwing the truck sideways. She froze inside the truck and watched as a rattlesnake continued it's journey across the road. Longer than she was tall, and as thick as her waist. And the coyotes... I caught a beauty on one of my trail cameras last year, he was huge and solid black. Coyotes are in my yard literally every night, but that one was truly special.

[@twobitsandpepper8235]

I think a solid black one means wolf, not coyote. Have never seen a black coyote...

[@TrulyUnfortunate]

We have a shitload of Gators here in Texas as well. Me and a Buddy were fishing an ox bow lake off the Trinity River...an ox bow lake is from the old river channel course that ended up land locked when the river moved. You have to be real careful about hanging your stringer of fish off the side of the boat. We always attached the stringer to the boat with a line that would break if the gators decided they wanted your fish. All it takes is one incidence of a gator dragging your boat sideway and threatening to swamp you when he decides your fish are his fish. They can smell you coming from crazy distances!!!!

[@Grynslvr2]

Gators in Texas. Yep, 40 odd years ago I was a cop for Crystal Beach, TX and we got a report of an alligator that came up from a body of water in this guy's back yard and ATE his beagle. Lots of kids playing around that water in the summer time, so we called the Game Wardens, who called in to Austin, got a "death warrant" for the alligator from a judge, and another Game Warden drove it down to the scene of the beagle buffet. I then got to watch as the Crystal Beach foundation savers err... I mean Volunteer Fire Department, tried to pump the water out of the "slew" with their pumper. They didn't realize that it was connected to the Gulf of Mexico. I went off duty and the Game Warden got lucky with some sort of bait, and shot Mr Gator. I live on Galveston island, just across the ship channel from all of this, and have had rattlesnakes, in my back yard, coyotes on my block, water moccasins within 200 yards of my house, alligators on my island ("it's MY island"), and cougars in the neighboring counties. If that weren't enough, we have sharks, stingrays, and eels in the water around us, and are likely to have hurricanes, waterspouts, and tornadoes. Heck the mascots for the local high school teams in the county are the Tornadoes (Galveston), the Cougars (LaMarque), Stingrays (Texas City, TX), and the Gators (Dickinson, TX). Come on down to the Island and enjoy an exciting day, full of action, adventure, and general weirdness.

[@TheCrunchbite]

I had a 12 footer grab an egret off to my left in north Mississippi about 20 years ago while I was fishing from a bank

[@dianchain1926]

All southern states have gators. I believe they have a "gator hunting season" here in Alabama now.

[@anjoleeeickhoff6800]

We live on the outskirts of town in a rural area so we have a field behind our house and on the one side of our house. Sometimes at night the coyotes will come across the fields and come into our back yard. We also get foxes and an occasional bobcat. Bobcats and foxes scream like a woman is being murdered sometimes, it’s absolutely terrifying the first time you hear it because it does sound like a woman screaming in terrible agony. We live in central Illinois between Decatur Illinois and Taylorville Illinois.

[@bertiesark]

I live in British Columbia Canada and have had cougars on my deck more than five times over the twenty plus years I have lived in my home, those nights our dogs do NOT GO OUT lol

[@SirOtter1]

The western coastal areas of Florida also have salt-water crocodiles, who reside in the brackish waters on the edge of the Gulf of Mexico. They might also have them on the Atlantic coast, but I haven't spent enough time on that side to say. Saw a crocodile on Sanibel Island right after Hurricane Wilma in 2005. It was dozing in a creek just below the edge of the road through the Ding Darling Wildlife Refuge. I got within about ten feet of it before backing away very quickly.

[@RS-xs7vl]

“Rattlesnakes are native to--“ “They Belong In Hell!!” 😂😂😂😂 Yep! 1000% agree!

[@alyssacole7285]

😂😂😂Lol

[@panzerdeal8727]

Add Copperheads and Water Moccasins to that. 3 common types in WV.

[@shawn7779]

@@panzerdeal8727ntm Diamond back rattle snakes.

[@panzerdeal8727]

@@shawn7779 Diamondbacks, Timber, Sidewinders..all of them as a group.

[@shawn7779]

@@panzerdeal8727 almost stepped on a moccasin one time, and found a diamond back in my grandpas old shed. Those snakes are not fun to interact with.

[@alwaysalibrarian]

I saw a video of a 14-ft alligator strolling across a Florida golf course. My parents sometimes saw alligators while golfing in Tampa, Florida. We now have coy-wolves, a wolf/coyote hybrid. They can be at least half the size of wolves. Lately, a lot of homeowners have been visited by black bears since their habitats are being encroached on.

[@michealdrake3421]

2:15 Black Widows are actually mostly harmless. The reason they have the reputation they do is because they're one of only two species of spider native to North America that can harm humans in any way. If bitten by a black widow though, the average person will just get flu symptoms for a few days, then it'll go away on its own. In fact, black widow fatalities are so rare that we only make a single batch of antivenom every year. It's not something to be worried about. It might ruin your week, but it almost certainly won't kill you.

[@OliviaFinley-p7w]

The brown recluse is a spider to be more afraid of for sure

[@lycanhussar]

@@OliviaFinley-p7w Even them it depends on their bite, i believe that science found that their venom isn't really dangerous but the bacteria that they form around their mouth is. that bacteria is what eats your flesh not the venom.

[@0529mpb]

You have evidently not been bitten by a black widow. The muscle, joint and lower back pain is intense. You hurt all over and cannot sleep. Pain killers don't do alot either.

[@michealdrake3421]

@@0529mpb You might be allergic. Allergies and compromised immune systems can lead to more extreme reactions.

[@ThePorpoisepower]

Buddy of mine got bit by a black widow... the bite got necrotic, and it took a few months to recover fully.

[@corinna007]

Canadian here; I'm surprised they didn't have moose on the list. They can be even more dangerous than the bears, despite what some people think. I think most of us Canadians are more concerned about them than bears. And about coyotes; some years ago a young aspiring singer named Taylor Mitchell was walking in a forest in Cape Breton; she passed two people going the opposite direction; not even ten minutes later, they heard screaming, and ran back to find her being attacked by two pr three coyotes. Unfortunately she didn't make it.

[@broken4096]

I've seen wild boar, coyotes, and deadly snakes in my backyard. A copperhead killed my dog this year. One reason Texans are armed. Lots of other stuff, but not real dangerous, like deer, raccoons, possums, armadillos.

[@MoreAdamCouser]

that is crazy to meeeeeeee

[@toodlescae]

​​@@MoreAdamCouserwe've had wild boar, a cougar, copperheads, water moccasins, rattlesnakes and even a couple alligators after a flood in '94. Of course we have 21 acres of family land. Like broken said we also get non-lethal wildlife as well from squirrels to deer.

[@BunnyNorris]

Wolves should have been replaced by wild Boar on the list.

[@thatinsufferablenerd]

Grew up in ID where all these animals are common beside gators. We went hunting and stuff all the time. Once while we were out my brothers went to pee on a sagebrush like any other time and accidentally bothered the rattlesnake hiding. They started screaming and ran back to hide in the truck while my dad decided he wanted a new hat band and took care of it. I've had wild deer walk up to me too, they're skittish but if you're quiet and still and calm they won't see you as a threat.

[@the_blu_gypsy]

I had to chuckle about the scorpion, I was born and raised in Arizona and as a kid I would play with scorpions and black widows. But I was born in the late 60s so ya. You always give me a good laugh with your reaction to animal videos, thank you 😊 😊😊

[@robertlee9069]

same here...we used to go out hunting rattlesnakes as a kid..spend all day turning over wood..logs whatever. We grew up in a different time my friend.

[@RobW-l7n]

I live in rural michigan, WHAT THE FUCK?

[@Aaron-io8vw]

I am from New jersey. A half hour out of New York city, you have rattlesnakes, Copperheads, a ton of Deer, a bears. In my home town of Matawan, we had three people eaten by a Shark that swam into a brackish water(where salt water and fresh water meet) creek in 1916. The attack inspired the book and film Jaws.

[@troys6965]

An Amazon delivery driver was recently bitten by a rattlesnake a few miles from here. She's okay now. Our usual concerns are alligators, coyotes, water moccasins (snakes), and rabid raccoons.

[@TheCrunchbite]

Yall have cotton mouths?

[@troys6965]

@@TheCrunchbite We have the Florida Cottonmouth.

[@tomk.2601]

We're 50 mins North of Chicago, and a big cat may occasionally pay a visit, either as an 'exotic pet' that strays from its home, or wanders from far up North. The cat and local coyotes typically want NOTHING to do with people, unless there's food scraps in their bins, or if they may have a tasty dog or cat, especially if the cat is allowed to roam, or dogs are tethered or enclosed in a fenced yard. (If a coyote comes around people in daylight, chances are that it may have rabbies.) There have been cases in which dogs on an on-leash stroll with their owners have been attacked by one or more coyotes, mostly after sunset.

[@RESET1776]

I was nearly taken out by a mountain lion a few years ago. At the time I lived just off the river in a wooded area. Went out back at night & didn’t notice there was a lion sleeping on the roof of a car. Literally was face to face with it inside a couple of feet, easily within it’s striking range. I just kept backing up slowly keeping eye contact & it darted off into the woods. Scary stuff! Also, A gentleman who lived down the block from me was killed unloading cattle from his trailer. They spooked slamming the gate into him & when he fell to the floor they trampled him.

[@ooglafina]

My neighbor was actually nearly killed by her cattle. The momentum of their weight pushed her into a fence, where she got trapped and trampled. She lived, but she was in bad shape at first. People on the radio made fun of it because it was actually really serious. Also, the manure on their hooves got into the wounds and she got serious infections. Also, I saw a coyote a few years ago. It was standing in a corn field a few blocks from my house when I drove to work and it was just staring at traffic. It was very eerie. They sound really creepy when you hear them barking in the distance at night too.

[@MrsHornesgdnm]

Adam, I lived in Colorado Springs, Colorado when I was in the Army, I was stationed at Ft. Carson.... anyway, I remember hearing on the news on TV that there were reports of Bears getting into the dumpsters at Taco Bell near the foothills of Pikes Peak.... the Mountain in Colorado Springs. Anyway, apparently the Bear liked Taco Bell food, because the same bear would make it's way to the dumpster, have to be tranquilized by the Forrest Rangers, then transported back over the mountain many miles away. They tagged him, so the always knew it was the same bear.... that was pretty funny! In a different news report, there was a guy who had to call in to work saying he couldn't make it in until the Wildlife Ranger arrived to tranquilize the the mountain lion on his front lawn! Could you imagine going out to your vehicle with a cup of coffee in your hand heading out to your truck and seeing a mountain lion looking at you like you are the one for breakfast?!! I remember another report where kids were not allowed to go out to the playground at recess because there were bear cubs playing on the playground.... where baby cubs are, mother is surely close by! There were reports of people looking out into their back yard and seeing a bear family going swimming in their pool..... you take your chances living among the beautiful scenery of the mountains, there were always reports of people finding their pets killed by wild life, or come up missing altogether! The people in the news did their best to warn new people moving into the area not to leave their pets outside, especially in the spring time when wild life are really hungry after hibernating during the winter months in the mountains! People really need to think before they move to places..... I just believe people have forgotten to think things through altogether!! Enjoyed the video.....

[@nancyjanzen5676]

I was camping at Mustang Island off the Texas coast. The park ranger told me to keep a watch because a coyote had been attacking small dogs. Mine was a mid sized wolf hybrid. I had him chained outside when I heard a different than normal bark. I stepped out of the RV into heavy wolf scent.and looked west as he was to see a coyote going as fast as it could away from there. My cuddle up puppy showed his wolf side saying this is my turf leave.

[@deviousmousey]

when i was around 8 years old, i was riding my bike with my neighbor through the bike trails in the woods alongside our neighborhood, and we got chased by a pack of coyotes. they had young pups with them and got defensive, at least 4 of the coyotes chased us a good 1/4 mile out of the woods. on more than one occasion while camping, having a large fire, music playing, people partying, etc, we've had whole packs of coyotes come into camp to steal food, gotta watch out for them forest puppies.

[@Nurse0981]

I live in NW PA and my sisters along with my niece and nephew were out clearing brush on the property we lease for hunting. They didn’t realize coyotes were stalking them until they heard a growl from a dense thicket as soon as they heard it they took off running. They made a big mistake by leaving their guns in the truck and they were lucky that the guys were there and fired a shot and they took off running the other way. When I was 12 I went hunting for the first time I had an encountered with a black bear come crashing through the woods and stop just below our tree stand. It stood up on its back legs and sniffing the air then noticed we were in the tree and started climbing the tree but thank god it gave up and got down and ran off

[@jamesaritchie1]

Coyotes do not stalk people with intent to do harm. They are just extremely curious. I've had an entire pack walk around me on both sides no more than ten feet away. I've been around coyotes and black bears my entire life. Neither are aggressive in any way. Black bear attacks are extremely rare, though this is largely because the most aggressive ones were killed off long ago, and only the more timid ones survived to breed.

[@BradleyBellwether-oy2qi]

I know a guy who was stung by a bark scorpion. He lived in Arizona and woke up one morning out tent camping when one fell on his chest from the ceiling of the tent. It startled him, and he tried brushing it off. When he did, he said, "All of a sudden, it felt like some put a hot clothing iron on my chest". He didn't go to the hospital. He just washed the site really good, took an otc pain killer, and monitored his vitals. He said, " Besides the pain, the only symptom I had was a slight numbness in my fingertips".

[@theresacrubaugh2095]

I was a volunteer photographer for Myakka River State Park, Florida. It would take about 30 minutes or less to get to a hospital for anti-venom. Mostly I came a cross water moccasins. But one day a ranger took me out in the Prairie to get a picture of a Sunburst (sort of a Venus Fly Trap) but instead she let out a scream. I stopped immediately! Then she asked me if I needed to get a pygmy rattler for the park? Yes, I did. She pointed to where it was. I saw nothing. She pointed more until I could see it. It's a pretty snake but it was posed ready to strike. I took 4 shots. Only one was good because I was shaking out of fear. Later that year, they used it in a campground slide show so tourists could understand how well camouflaged snakes can be. Coyotes come into the city of Chicago all the time.

[@debipatterson4150]

67 yrs old and I have never seen these in my back yard! I have seen a racoon, and a buck with large horns laying in the shade, he left on his own after a nap. A friend of mine in Florida lived in a apartment complex, she went to take out her trash, opening the dumpster and was attacked by a rapid fox. This fox had rabies, and a few other bad things!

[@tanyapoe5490]

Well a lot of people that get stung by the scorpions are putting their shoes on. The damn things crawl into shoes and sting when you push your foot in.

[@MichaelCrawford-me1rg]

That's what they told us when I was deployed to Iraq: spiders and scorpions like warm, damp places - like boots. Gotta beat em on the floor and shake em out!

[@donhathaway3234]

The wife and I were snowmobiling out behind our house one very cold moonless winter night. We had stopped on top of the highest hill, shut off the machines to just enjoy the quiet. Sitting there we started to hear the yelps of coy dogs echoing in the valley below. Coy dogs are what we call feral dogs in New Hampshire. We could tell they were getting closer. Whatever the pack was chasing, they obviously caught it. The screams and howling was enough for us to fire up the machines and head for home.

[@michealdrake3421]

3:25 Yes! You're more right than you probably know. Crocodiles and alligators have been around since the time of the dinosaurs and have remained virtually unchanged for over 65 million years. They are literal dinosaurs. They survived the KT extinction. They existed before it and are still alive today. They eat everything, they have almost no natural weaknesses to anything. And if you live along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico they'll just casually wander into your back yard whenever they feel like it.

[@Arizhel6]

I find mountain lion tracks occasionally when I go hiking. The largest ones I've found were nearly as big as my hand. They're huge cats but aren't actually classified as big cats because they can't roar. They purr, like domestic cats do, and it sounds like a friggin diesel engine. Their yowls during mating season are creepy as hell; they sound an awful lot like a woman screaming.

[@HanginWithMrReyRey]

I live in Tucson and my stepmom got bit in the calf by a rattlesnake and had to walk herself 5 Mi out of the desert to the vehicle where my dad had to drive her to the hospital and she got anti-venom in her 3 hours later her leg swelled up to the size of a watermelon and she was in the hospital for a while.

[@DravenGal]

Glad she's okay. Why on EARTH was she five miles into a desert on foot? I'm not being snarky, I'm just curious.💙

[@giffysstiffy887]

Black bears and mountain Cougars are very dangerous😎 Black bears and cougars kill American ls every year and they live every where😎 A black bear recently chased a man off of a cliff and tried to eat him while he was hanging off of the cliff

[@lightsalt8530]

I live in Alabama (Roll Tide!) and my cat saved me from a rattlesnake. I didn't hear it at all because I had headphones on while working in my yard. My cat won, no bites. Snake was dead before I even knew what was happening.

[@DravenGal]

@@lightsalt8530 Kitty power!

[@lightsalt8530]

@@DravenGal for real! He got extra treats for a few days.

[@camcroney7965]

Most of the time shoes are why people are stung by scorpions. They climb in the shoe and if you don't check you stick your foot in and are stung. So when in the south west, especially outside or edges of towns always check your shoes.

[@HeWhoShallNotBeShamed]

I've had a black widow under my headboard of my bed. I slept on the couch for a week before i got the bastard. I stepped on a scorpion in my house, and it hurts like a bastard. We had 6 or 7 rattle snakes over the years. Mom carrying a potluck tray stepped over one, sunning it's self on the door mat. My dog chased a frog into the water meter box. When I looked, I found a 4 and half footer. We had bobcat, mountain lions, and coyotes on our property. We found an abandoned coyote pup. It took two days for wildlife rescue to come get him from us. He was a vicious little shit that wanted us dead. A girl from my junior high school had a mountain lion pull 11 rabbits through the front of the hutch about two miles from my house. So, if you live in southern California, you can tick off most of these deadly animals on the list.

[@splatninja9447]

I had a black widow living under my bed. Don't know where she went, but she left me alone and I saw no flies or other pests so I left her fat self alone. Then one day she was just gone. Cool critters, but they have nothing on those master hunters known as wolf spiders. Well nothing but venom potency.

[@dawnboren594]

I live on Palomar Mt. One night I was just outside the backdoor with a very bright light on. I heard light patters on the ground and 3 coyotes ran past me into a nearby canyon. Freaked me out.

[@wormholewilly3037]

ya i went camping with my dad and brother probably around 18 years ago in south dakota. pretty close to mount rushmore. we were sleeping one night and we woke up to what sounded like a baby crying up on the cliff about 30 feet from our tent. So i got out of the tent with my flash light to see if i could see anything and an older man from a neighboring camp site told me not to go wandering off because that sound is the sound of a mountain lion. i started building the fire a lot bigger and stayed outside by the fire for a long time that night.

[@Hassi_81]

Coyotes mostly attack in packs… when in their own, they’re pretty skittish. But always best to avoid because they could be rabid. I live in Vegas, and we see coyotes in the suburbs occasionally

[@saltyk9869]

A couple years ago, I went to Florida for work. There was a pond nearby and I was warned to stay away. When I asked why, I was told that there's gators in it and they've even gotten near the building. My family has had horses as long as I remember, and once had a horse attacked on the leg (took a chunk from the leg). We asked the vet what could have done it and was told it was likely a mountain lion.

[@TheSpiralAim]

Got rattlesnakes where I live. Your misconception is that they kill you instantly. Deaths from rattlesnake bites are really rare. They also warn you first... so honestly they are easy to avoid. We also have bark scorpions in our house lol. They hide in your shoes when you go to bed, as a warning.

[@nemo227]

I keep a sharpened shovel near my back door. I live in a small suburb in the Monterey Bay area. Last year there was a mountain lion recorded on security camera in the patio of a nearby home. I've only found in my fenced back yard: squirrels, rats, possums, bantam chickens, cats, and . . . a peacock.

[@MkH-24]

One night I was pulling up to my house and we had a pond next to us. I looked out the window and thought I saw my dog. I drover over there and was yelling out the window "SASHA! COME HERE RIGHT NOW! " and she got closer and then I thought. Oh wow she looks big, why does she look so big? Then I realized it was a coyote that was the same color as my german shepherd but much bigger than her. I then thought ooookay better go 😅.

[@hansborracho4350]

I am way more scared of Sasquatch and Dogmen, than a friggin coyote 🥴🥴

[@Mrscruffyxx]

Either you must have seen a wolf or you have a puppy because coyotes definitely dont get as big as german shepherds.

[@deannep8971]

In the plains they are smaller, in the deep mountains they are much bigger, I've seen one as big as a shepherd near Crystal Colorado ​@Mrscruffyxx

[@Mrscruffyxx]

@@deannep8971 you're not gonna find a coyote as big as a German shepherd anywhere. MAYBE an Australian shepherd but 100% not a German shepherd.

[@MichaelTimmons-ef3lu]

We've got coyotes all over Wyoming and they can and will kill a large dog if they are in a pack but, one on one with a large dog they will flee. If there is something around your house they may return with others but usually not. Being injured a coyote will be killed, left or eaten by its pack!

[@hereigoagain04]

I took a First Aid class over 18 weeks back in the 90’s. Once of the activities was to take a look at each picture on the big screen, and go through how to address the wound. The last picture came up and nobody knew what we were looking at. There was just meat & chips of bone. We had no idea where to begin treating the wound because we couldn’t identify the body part. When we asked what it was, the facilitator told us, “That’s a face after a bear attack. NEVER mess with a bear!”

[@xo2quilt]

Where I live, we have mountain lions, deer, cattle, rattlesnakes, scorpions, coyotes, wolves and bears. Come out to the western United States, where you can experience them all!! I've seen them all as well.

[@SonoraSlinger]

I live in the great American Southwest. And yes, just about every dangerous predator lives here

[@anotherrandomperson5154]

Gators pop up in the ditch across from my house quite frequently. Be respectful of them, let them be and keep your distance. I've seen only one Florida panther in my life and that was back in 1986. It was sitting on the on ramp to the interstate. This was in Sarasota, Fl. Beautiful animal. Same as gators and most wildlife be respectful, let them be and keep your distance.

[@leadingblind1629]

Love it when a photographer catches a dangerous wild animal SNEEZING. They look fierce then don't they ???? 😂😂😂

[@katiedelp2166]

Indiana here! We have a mated coyote pair that lives at the edge of our property! They come out at night or really early in the morning. They are extremely important for the ecosystem and are generally misunderstood. Although, coyotes are considered predators, they are also opportunistic and shift their diets to take advantage of the most available prey. Coyotes are generally scavengers and predators of small prey but can shift to large prey occasionally. The most common food item for coyotes is small rodents.

[@mikemollman1869]

Alligators (crocadillians in general) are actually older than the dinosaurs.

[@MJ-00001]

So what you're telling me is we should have _Gator Nuggets_ 🐊

[@imweakfordeaky]

@@MJ-00001I’ve had deep-fried gator tail tenders before… they were pretty yummy !

[@PlantManC]

We have a bunch of these around where I live in California. If I go to the disc golf course in the foothills a few miles away, we have rattlers, deer, and cougars live nearby but usually shy away from people. I don’t walk my little dog off leash in certain areas of the park because he could be eaten by a mountain lion. I’ve seen tons of rattlesnakes and we just give them respect and space.

[@Volyren]

Mountain lions are just domestic feral cats with beefier hardware. There's a chill one who naps on my patio once a month or so. I've given him scritchies from a barely cracked door. But I risk 2 fingers and only get back 1.9. That tongue will draw blood in 4 or 5 licks. So, I've never been curious about his biscuits. He's a nice kitbull, but I like the glass between us.

[@nerysghemor5781]

YES. Mountain lions can actually be super chill if you respect them. At the zoo in my area, one of the mountain lions was laying right on the ledge on his side of the glass and there was a ledge on my side. I gave him the same sleepy eyes you give your domestic cat, as I approached. He stayed chill when I sat down and eventually laid down on the ledge, and we then took a nap together. Best moment ever.

[@jamesaritchie1]

Mountain lions are a hell of a lot more than beefier domestic cats. They can be extremely aggressive and dangerous.

[@DonnasArizonaAdvenrures]

I live in Arizona and hike through the Superstition Mountians all the time. I've run across Rattlesnakes, Mountian Lions and Coyotes. You back away from rattlesnakes and don't get in their way and they will move away from you. I walked around a bend in the trail and came face to face with a mountion Lion. We had a stand off for a moment, then I backed away. The Lion turned and ran up the mountian side. I went jogging in our neighborhood and had two large coyotes following me. I turned around and yelled for about a minute and they ran from me and jumped over a neighbors 6 foot tall block fence. They jump up and put their front leg on the top, and then they push themselves up by using the back legs to climb up the fence. Always know all about the animals in your area and you'll be fine. We also have scorpions, and I hate them! They give me the creeps! I've lived here for years and have never been bitten. The joys of living in the American South West.

[@GeographRick]

I'm in South Carolina. There are alligators that live in the pond behind my house. Just keep a respectable distance and make sure your dog can't get to the edge of the pond. I see them every day and have never had any problem.

[@musicandmoviefan9217]

11:48 a great number of scorpion stings occur when you put your foot into your shoe without checking it first as the scorpions like to crawl into shoes to hang out.

[@Lindsay-nx5sv]

CT always had coyotes, but over the years, they have gotten bigger. In my area, they were a little bigger than a fox. Then, they began feasting on the abundant wild turkeys, and now they are the size of a Labrador.

[@user-ii3vn8tn3q]

Home from work at 2am, there's (what I think is) a yellow lab running around my front yard! How exciting, I get to play with a dog! I get out of the car and call it, start walking over as it runs to the 6' fence. It stands there, for a seconds then jumps from a standstill, to the top of the fence, then ONTO THE ROOF of the house next door. I got back in the car and sat there for the LONGEST time not daring to walk across the lawn to the house. It was a mountain lion.

[@gramalinda750]

Okay so yes, cows can be evil. The man in the pool holding up the gator was one of The Gator Boys which was a series on Animal Planet. They rescue gators and run a preserve just for gators. Do you know how many rodents we would have if not for snakes?? The coyote is not a large animal but they can be deadly. The wolf is much larger and is also aggressive. And yes, this is one of the reasons we have weapons. 😉

[@renpixie]

I live in rural Arizona. My neighbor bought a cow for milking. Somehow she didn’t realize it was a Mexican Longhorn cross. Ruby decided to break out of her pen & run with the local ranchers herd of Black Angus. You can still see Ruby with the herd.

[@cactusrose9601]

I’m in Arizona all my life, & I can tell you that my mom sat on a rattle snake & ended up in icu. She did survive. Regarding the bark scorpions: I’ve seen them all over my house. They were seen in my shoes, climbing up the walls, in my kitchen sink, you name it. Tarantulas aren’t deadly, but their huge (5”) size can scare the crap out of you if you run into one on the couch.

[@freshair6201]

There are many people in Mexico who are very poor. They basically live in shacks. The door only covered by a sheet. Many sleep on a mattress on the dirt floor. This is why so many are stung by the scorpions.

[@richardlong314]

When i was 15 i was doing some labor around my aunt's daycare she ran at her church. I saw a cougar lounging in a tree about 24-30 yards from where the kids were playing outside. I told the teacher to get the kids inside quietly and walked between the kids and the cat then went inside after the kids and their teacher got inside. Fun times

[@americansmark]

I had a coyote in my yard this morning. It just noticed me and kept its distance. I'm not wortied about it cuz all three of my dogs are far larger.

[@MichaelCrawford-me1rg]

They work in packs - one will lure a dog into the woods, where the rest of the pack is waiting.

[@brianm6117]

I'm not even in the mountains and we have deer, bear, coyotes, snakes, and (reportedly) mountain lions. Few weeks ago buddy from work sent me a ring camera video from his mom's salon of a bear. Her salon is 1/4 mile up the road. I was right by her salon multiple times that day because we were using the parking lot to park people for a party we were having. I would go fetch them on a side by side and bring them back to the house. I'll hear the coyotes yipping in the distance occasionally. One day I came home from work early and a snake was just chilling right inside my front door. I've hit 8 deer in various vehicles over the years.

[@hemidog1982]

The chickens have been trying to tell us about the cows forever. The cows already silenced the lambs.

[@Rickettsia505]

In Albuquerque NM, My daughter had to leave her apartment for a couple of days, while they were exterminating an infestation of scorpions. We had the "great bear invasion", where many bears came down from the mountains into the city, looking for apple trees. My daughter also had rattlesnakes infest her basement. Hitting a deer is always a risk, also elk and antelope. There are coyotes all over. Little dogs and cats are called coyote bait, but owls and hawks can also get them. We also have incidents of bubonic plague here in NM.

[@Complication84]

There is a reason why settlers eradicated wolves and coyotes. People get sick of losing children to predators.

[@benschultz1784]

With wolves it was more of the stories of wolves attacking people in Europe that caused the killings.

[@RaffiJaharian]

They eradicated predators mostly to protect livestock stock that why you don’t se many large predators in the eastern US .Jaguars were also eradicated from the US

[@meminustherandomgooglenumbers]

What’s the reason they eradicated buffalo and beaver?

[@hannarae4311]

We have rattle snakes in Long Island Ny which I didn't know but I have seen garter snakes and only a cotton mouth once in North Carolina. I was sitting on top of the stairs of a beach out in the outer banks enjoying the warm day while everyone else was at the beach as I thought I saw something moving at the top of the driveway. I realized it was a massive four foot cotton mouth snake as it was a pitch black scales but watched in awe as it moved past. never seen one in person but really incredible but dangerous animals. Definitely had to thank Steve Irwin for instilling a respect yet fascination for these guys too rather then fear.

[@KahavaveCAPIPI]

Cows - Keep in mind that there are people whose entire job consists of managing thousands of cows at once. Like, they can hurt you but its pretty rare if you're careful. Deer - Deer are stupid. Great reactions, but incredibly smooth brained. Gators - Gators are chill. I maintain anyone who has ever gotten hurt by a gator was doing something stupid like walking up to it to poke it or not checking large bodies of water before approaching. According to reports Covert (the lady from the video) was literally walking up to it while people were telling her to get away. Kid gets a pass cause he was 2, I don't know if the parents were charged but they should have been for not paying attention. Snakes - All snakes, not just rattlers; watch where you step, keep your eyes and ears open, wear good jeans. They don't want to bite you because they know they can't eat you, its purely defensive. Mountain Lion - They don't go out of their way to attack humans but if you're in their territory the best you can do is back away for a couple hours until it decides you've gone far enough. Don't fight back, don't turn your back on it, don't run. Just steadily back away and keep yourself as big as you can. Alternatively, gun. Coyotes - Pronounce it "Kai-oat". The e is silent. They're one of the 'respect them and you'll be fine' class of animals; they're not just a dirty puppy, they're a wild animal and you have to remember to treat them as such. A coyote would have to be amazingly desperate (or sick but then you have a whole different problem) to go after a human unprovoked. Wolves - I... honestly don't have much advice for this because I don't live in wolf country. Standard wild animal advice I guess; avoid, stay strapped, stay near a car. Might be worth carrying a repellent if you're gonna be camping. Scorpion - Insect proof your house, wear shoes, socks, and jeans outside. Don't have that particular variety, but that's the good advice for preventing small creepy crawlies. Bears - You can usually scare off black bears; those given examples were incredibly atypical. Don't mess with grizzlies; if the gun or mace doesn't scare them off it just makes them angry at you. If you're not able to get to your car fast enough your best option with a grizzly is to literally lie down and let them hurt you for a while. Eventually they'll get bored and leave you alone. Don't run, you'll just die tired.

[@lawrencewilson8947]

My mom found a pair of rattlesnakes in my crib. Years later in a different part of Oregon, I found bear tracks, wolf tracks, coyote tracks. All in my back yard. Came across puma tracks up in the woods.

[@Samhain606]

I live in Florida. All the animals are friends.

[@MicheleReece]

🤣🤣🤣 You're hilarious. I pet my neighbor's Bull all the time. He puts his head up against the panels, and wants a head scratch. I stay away from mother cows and they're calves.

[@christopherjon1245]

I near got trampled by a bunch of cows…..I avoid Walmart now

[@AnikaLivo]

At my parents' house above Estes Park, Colorado, we had bears try to get into his bear proof tradh can regularly. He had to use fence posts to fasten it down, because they'd pick it up and flip it over and the contents would get all over the interior. I had a bear walk up behind me twice in one summer, about 30 feet away. I asked them what they thought they were doing, and they stood up, looked at me, and ran off. No cubs involved, thank God! I'm a lot more leery of elk, and especially moose, which we've had many times. Moose operate on the theory of "if it worries you, stomp on it".

[@spectre9957]

Garter snakes and Red Racers in Washington, water moccasins and pygmy rattle snakes in GA, I'm live around vipers, mambas, asps and a few others all living in the wild around me. Never been bit. I have mountain lions go through my back yard occasionally. Coyotes everywhere. Wolves about 50 miles north. Black bears. It's pretty wild out here.

[@rachael9442]

My husband was getting out of his car one evening during winter and was getting something out of his car. Our dog started to bark from the window in a way he never heard before and when he turned around there was a coyote creeping up on him and stood 10 feet away him. It didn’t run off right away it just stood there staring him down trying to size him up until it finally walked off. We live in a heavily wooded area in southwestern Ohio and it is not uncommon to see them in our backyards.

[@vickywhitesell7482]

Cows run wild out in the west, the road signs reads "Open Range." The ranchers rent the National Forests and cows and sheep run loose to keep the grass grazed and help keep forest fires down. The sheep have shepherds and herding dogs moving with the flocks.

[@tripsixx5802]

I’ve lived all over the place, I’m in Virginia now and I’ve had black bears, rattlers, copperheads, and coyotes. In Florida of course gators, cottonmouths, rattlers which don’t always rattle down there because they’re scared of the boar, and now they have pythons! In Vegas those bark scorpions are a pain they can get everywhere especially the young small ones which hurt worse, basically like 5 bees stinging you at once but they’re kinda cool and trippy they glow a bright greenish blue under black light

[@patrickhopkins4468]

Ever been out in the woods when suddenly everything goes quiet and the hair stands up on the nape of your neck? And you suddenly KNOW a predator is watching you? I have. Upon turning around and heading back to my vehicle, i ran across a set of cougar prints in the light dusting of snow on the ground. It was shadowing me as I walked through the woods. I keep a loud air horn with me as well as my rifle. I don't mind admitting that I fired off one round in the air and used the horn periodically on my way back to my vehicle. I stopped at the closest ranger station to ask about cougar sightings and was told that there had been several in the past week. Yes, it was in Oregon