Come on in animal lovers: Poll for favorite domestic and wild animals

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Anonymous wrote:I love my ordinary boring rescue tabby cats if no particular breed. And really big chill domasticated dogs/cats/rabbits. I also have a family inherited soft spot for sheep — my granny has a sheep farm — although that’s a different vibe than a pet. Working sheepdogs also have a special place in my heart.

For wild animals, I love many but I think the North American tundra ecosystem is my favorite. Moose, polar bears, bison, ermine, seals, etc. Love them all.

OP we have a boring rescue tabby also and love her to pieces - visitors are amazed by how friendly she is.

Interesting about your granny having a sheep farm! Don’t know much about them but they do seem to enjoy each others’ company.

I can’t get over the size of moose - just their foot prints are big enough to sit in. We would like to visit the NA tundra system (in a safe low impact vehicle) and see these animals in their own element. Do you recommend anywhere in particular?

Sheep are the most pack animals. Anything one sheep does, no matter how dumb, every other sheep will do too. They’re kind of evil and mean too but I’m fond of them (and I love wool).

As for northern animals, I visited this wildlife sanctuary when I was in Whitehorse. https://yukonwildlife.ca/ I loved it because we were only able to see about half the animals — the enclosures were so large they could choose to be far enough away from visitors we could barely spot them if they wanted. Also apparently the deer can jump the fence of their enclosure and sometimes leave to go on adventures but they like coming back because it’s safe and there’s food. (I also saw two lynxes just hanging out by the road while we were up there which was pretty cool too.)

OP - northwestern Canada wilderness must have been amazing. Hope you got to see the Northern Lights there. Seeing Lynxes chill by side of road would be very cool.

Your observations about sheep confirms my impressions. Must be some kind of collective survival strategy. Zebras and wildebeest do that in Africa as well - incredible to see them running together in what seems like an eternal stampede during the Great Migration from Kenya to Tanzania. It does help protect more being picked off by Apex predators.

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Anonymous wrote:Fave domesticated are big mutts. All of them. Although I have fallen in love with a neighbor shiba inu and a corgi.

Fave wild are crows and ravens. I hear magpies are fascinating too but we don't have them here. Our crows all live in green worlds of plenty so they don't seem able to be tempted by feeding or else I would try it. They have their raucous days where they all seem to be up to something. It's amazing to think of them and all the raptors flying and able to see the detail on the ground.

OP - Nice choice

Yes big and little well adjusted mutts are wonderful. I usually prefer mutts to purebreds as they tend to be less neurotic and often have fewer health problems as long they get lots of love and adequate training.

Yes sometimes the crows are deafening along the canal. And, I often see raptors such as hawks, Turkey vultures and vultures near the canal. That is a major reason why our cats are indoor cats (plus we have foxes and coyotes near us).

I agree that carvids are super interesting.

“Crows and other corvids (a family of birds that includes ravens and magpies) “know what they know and can ponder the content of their own minds,” according to a 2020 study in Science. This is considered a cornerstone of self-awareness and shared by just a handful of animal species beside humans, such as monkeys and great apes. Crows can also use their complex brains to find creative solutions, such as dropping nuts on the road so passing cars can crack them open …

Crows are extremely intelligent. They can use tools to get what they want, like New Caledonian crows in a single South Pacific island of the same name, which shape twigs into hooks to catch grubs from rotting logs. And according to new research, crows are even smarter than we thought”.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/animals/a34165311/crows-are-self-aware-like-humans/#

Octopodes are super intelligent too but I don't particularly like them. Nor monkeys or apes. Love the Ravens of the Tower of London

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Golden snub nose monkeys. There are videos of them taking and eating oranges from people and it’s just so cute to watch them eat.

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Anonymous wrote:Fave domesticated are big mutts. All of them. Although I have fallen in love with a neighbor shiba inu and a corgi.

Fave wild are crows and ravens. I hear magpies are fascinating too but we don't have them here. Our crows all live in green worlds of plenty so they don't seem able to be tempted by feeding or else I would try it. They have their raucous days where they all seem to be up to something. It's amazing to think of them and all the raptors flying and able to see the detail on the ground.

OP - Nice choice

Yes big and little well adjusted mutts are wonderful. I usually prefer mutts to purebreds as they tend to be less neurotic and often have fewer health problems as long they get lots of love and adequate training.

Yes sometimes the crows are deafening along the canal. And, I often see raptors such as hawks, Turkey vultures and vultures near the canal. That is a major reason why our cats are indoor cats (plus we have foxes and coyotes near us).

I agree that carvids are super interesting.

“Crows and other corvids (a family of birds that includes ravens and magpies) “know what they know and can ponder the content of their own minds,” according to a 2020 study in Science. This is considered a cornerstone of self-awareness and shared by just a handful of animal species beside humans, such as monkeys and great apes. Crows can also use their complex brains to find creative solutions, such as dropping nuts on the road so passing cars can crack them open …

Crows are extremely intelligent. They can use tools to get what they want, like New Caledonian crows in a single South Pacific island of the same name, which shape twigs into hooks to catch grubs from rotting logs. And according to new research, crows are even smarter than we thought”.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/animals/a34165311/crows-are-self-aware-like-humans/#

Octopodes are super intelligent too but I don't particularly like them. Nor monkeys or apes. Love the Ravens of the Tower of London

OP - how about admire / respect them (highly intelligent animals) a little more? 😀

The London tower ravens seem a little iconic …

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Anonymous wrote:Golden snub nose monkeys. There are videos of them taking and eating oranges from people and it’s just so cute to watch them eat.

Nice choice! What little characters!

Had to look them up - after seeing pictures of them, I was familiar with their singular and beautiful appearance through photos but not from seeing them in real life or zoos.

So sad they (and so many other animals) are endangered and face extinction.

For others who also can’t quite place them:

“The golden snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus roxellana) is an Old World monkey in the subfamily Colobinae. It is endemic to a small area in temperate, mountainous forests of central and Southwest China. They inhabit these mountainous forests of Southwestern China at elevations of 1,500–3,400 m (4,900–11,200 ft) above sea level. The Chinese name is Sichuan golden hair monkey (四川金丝猴). It is also widely referred to as the Sichuan snub-nosed monkey. Of the three species of snub-nosed monkeys in China, the golden snub-nosed monkey is the most widely distributed throughout China” (wiki)

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Dogs and foxes

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Anonymous wrote:Dogs and foxes

OP
Any particular types of dogs?

I love foxes too! Good thing since one or two hang out our place all the time.

Here is good advice for handling foxes living in your yard peacefully ….

https://blog.nwf.org/2018/04/what-to-do-when-foxes-move-in/#:~:text=Generally%2C%20there%27s%20not%20anything%20to,to%20live%20in%20our%20yards.

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Capybaras
Otters
Scottish Fold cats with straight ears (Google it, beyond cute)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dogs and foxes

OP
Any particular types of dogs?

I love foxes too! Good thing since one or two hang out our place all the time.

Here is good advice for handling foxes living in your yard peacefully ….

https://blog.nwf.org/2018/04/what-to-do-when-foxes-move-in/#:~:text=Generally%2C%20there%27s%20not%20anything%20to,to%20live%20in%20our%20yards.

Great article! "a fed mammal is a dead mammal"

My dog keeps all the foxes away from the immediate yard but they do like to taunt her. The screams on certain nights drive her nuts and nobody gets any sleep...

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For animal lovers:

The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology is the world's largest and oldest archive of animal sounds. And now that the entire collection has been digitized, it is also the most accessible.

The digital archive consists of nearly 150,000 audio recordings, covering about 9,000 species of animals. Although there is an emphasis on birds, species from across the animal kingdom are represented. Over the last decade, the Library has also expanded its mission to include video recordings of animal behavior.

https://www.macaulaylibrary.org/



This interactive map allows you to listen to forests around the world

https://www.euronews.com/green/2020/09/24/this-interactive-map-allows-you-to-listen-to-forests-around-the-world