re: Coolest animal you have seen in the wild

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I used to track Romeo in winter,

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Awesome. The size difference to that chocolate lab is astounding. When humans domesticated the wolf it was our first foray into genetic engineering and a key to our own evolution.

Grizzly bears and bald eagles in Alaska.

I witnessed the crimson tide at grand pass off west timbalier. Hundreds of bull reds all over the place. The water was literally blood red. Had 6 heavy duty poles iin the water and in less than 10'seconds they were all stripped.

Howler Monkeys and wild parrots

I've seen two "black wolves". I'm sure i'll catch some slack but...

we were running dogs around 1989 in St Helena. It came over the hill, with the dogs trailing it about 200 yards behind. of course i didn't shoot, would have been about 80 yards, and kept going across the open cutover.

in East Feliciana, around 1995. we were going across the field and up a hill in a truck, 3 mutt dogs were running at us and ran past us, which i thought was odd. we got over the hill and same as before, a long haired jet black dog was booking it across the field, and went thru that fence like it wasn't there. I'm assuming it was about to run those 3 dogs down and xxxxxx. and you thought a greyhound was fast, i'd like to put whatever that was on a track.

what it was, i don't know, but 2 very odd situations with other dogs involved.

Saw a moose in Maine
Huge schools of jellyfish and lots of sea snakes in the Persian Gulf. A great white shark somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. A mountain lion that was too close for comfort in Kentucky and a bald eagle in Lake Martin.

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Mammoth Caves.

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Been there on a camp trip back in the 70's. Mammoth Cave is fricking awesome. Slept in the cave.

Camel spider or hedge hog. Both in Iraq.

Grizzle bear at 20 yards