What's your closest encounter with wildlife?

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I really haven't had that much of an encounter with wildlife because I've lived most of my life in the city.
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Miriam Molina wrote: 13 Apr 2018, 18:54
Zain A Blade wrote: 12 Apr 2018, 11:24 Oooh, yours was one frightening experience. I can relate because a lion almost mauled me at a zoo in Nigeria. I was young and fearless (or just crazy), I breached their safety protocol and decided to cross the metal bars to get a close up shot of a lioness. The only thing between me and the lioness was a flimsy wired fence. The shock of my camera's flashlights irritated the lioness and she came at me, lurching at the fence that separated us. All of a sudden it occurred to me that to a lion I am nothing but prey. I ran as fast as I could to the exit, because I knew without doubt that another lurch at the fence will completely bring it down. If the wired fence had given way before I got out, I would have made headline news that day as he second person mauled by a lion in that same zoo. The first one was a caretaker who forgot to lock the gate to the lion's den while feeding them.
Apparently, the caretaker didn't take care. And you, daring photographer, are something else. I wonder if you would have enjoyed your pictures had you been mauled by that angry lioness. I'm glad you escaped unscathed. And wiser?
Any wiser? Well, I must say that the fear of lions is still in me. That should be enough to keep me wary of all predators going forward.
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When camping in the Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania, we heard of bear sightings. Some of the trees in our campground showed sign of bear scratches. We didn't see any, thankfully.
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I've seen lions and tigers when we visited the zoo once. They allow you to take pictures with tigers. I couldn't even force a smile while standing beside the tiger, but my companions enjoyed the experience.
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Well in my country people still hunt once in a while so i've seen a deer and some other animal i can't name(though i'm sure i've seen on national geography wild once) but they were both dead, a bat has entered my hostel room once(had to chase it out), i've seen and killed two scorpions in my boarding school(both in different schools) and i've had snakes in my backyard, all promptly killed except for a few escapees(if you can don't have mercy on a poisonous animal, it might accidentally poison you on purpose). So if that counts for wild life then yeah i've seen some.
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Well, to my luck or unluck, I don't have such a scary experience with wildlife yet. I have visited only few national parks and had seen bears, leopards, crocodiles, deers, foxes, elephants and many more animals. But none of them get panicked with our arrival. They were busy with their daily routine and didn't try to chase us away. So we enjoyed well by watching their behaviour, took more and more photographs and came back.
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My closest encounter was snorkeling with giant manta rays in the Maldives. Unforgettable!
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It depends on what counts as the wild! At an aquarium in Austin, I had a paid encounter with a kinkajou, and that was really cool. At Disney World, I've swam with sharks, and in the Florida Keys, I've swam with dolphins and manatees.
But if we're talking about actually encountering animals in the wild, most of my experiences have been during snorkling or scuba diving! I've encountered turtles, barracudas, and a wide variety of other really cool fish.
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I have not had any encounters with wildlife. But I read so much about them. I also watch them. The experiences I have gotten have increased my hunger for widelife travel.
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Lolz i read all the hillarious comment.
So sad I have no experience yet but soon I will and when I do I will come back here to leave a comment.
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Yes, I had an encounter with a lion. It was my most miserable day. I had never been so scared in my life as I was that day.
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I’ve been to the zoo severally. That’s been the most interaction I’ve had with wildlife. I’m not sure I want to have an up close experience.
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It would be the zoo :D
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My closest encounter with wildlife was when I saw a very big ptython in my garden. I was almost unconscious at first sight
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The zoo.
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