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| Date: | 5/24/2013 12:06:10 PM |
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Hi! I watched a documentary program on TV about life in Alaska. In winter there is little to eat and the wolves were chowing down on any dying moose and elk and such. Sounds like the monkeys and baboon troops that sometimes terrorize the domesticated animals here. Dogs especially are attacked by baboons who routinely kill them. Perhaps its there resemblance to wild dogs and hyenas, perhaps its just menace? Like I was saying wolves scare me and so do bears. I guess a bear is worse than a lion, cos its so big and it could hurt one horribly. Lions can be deterred with stones thrown at them, believe it or not. . Never did that myself, but I have seen rangers in the parks use it to get them to back off. Hyena can sometimes be fooled into thinking that you are much bigger and stronger if you raise your hands and wail like a mad man. Leopard are not easily deterred an put up a hell of a fight. Needless to say running doesn’t help. Some time back we visited the Abe Bailey Nature Reserve. We got caught between buffalo. The ranger asked us to pick some buffalo crap up and rub it all over us. Scared as hell we did what he said and it worked! We were able to make our way without being detected.The salmon run must make bears very excited, so I’ve seen. Poor fish have to swim upstream and get chowed by bears, and all in the name of procreation. The lengths some creatures got to go to, to get laid ;-D I’ve only ever seen polar bears at the zoo and they didn’t seem happy. It was blazing hot, maybe 32 degrees Celsius and these bears were restless. They are huge and I don’t think that anyone could fight or scare them off. I’ve seen that they will soon be extinct if global warming still goes on the way it is. Sad that they must swim so far to catch seals and other prey. I’ve also been big into animals and I would have loved to have studied vet science myself. I was thinking og coming to Canada to study at the university of Guelph. But I couldn’t get funding, so I thought I would apply at the University of Pretoria. However the curriculum was in Afrikaans and I wasn’t comfortable studying it in that language, though I speak it fluently, studying in another language other than my mother tongue Engels would not have been the same. So I studied Chemistry, Physics, Archaeology and eventually found Computer Science appealing. But in retrospect I think its better that way, as I do what I do for my animals for fun and enjoyment. Doing that for a job may not be fun, but I do believe I would have saved many animals. Too late for regrets. If you would like to I reckon go for it. Here too reptiles suffer because vets haven’t been exposed to them while studying. One must rely on the Snakes Board for guidance with regard to reptile sickness. A vote for you too! Take care! Cheers! Stokes |
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