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In your country, what "common" animals are tourists most excited to see? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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It has always amused me that the tourists to the US that I’ve spoken to are often very excited to see raccoons, and disappointed if they don’t see them before they leave.

Some others I’ve noticed on the east coast of the US are blue jays and cardinals. Boy, do people get excited about those if they’ve never seen them before! Very pretty birds of course, just very easy to get used to and see as uninteresting as well.

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[–] kerrigan778@lemmy.world 26 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Raccoons are a national treasure and should be recognized as such.

[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Trash panda > regular panda

Fight me, China

[–] cosmoscoffee@feddit.de 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I generally agree, but I'd like to extend it to

red panda > trash panda > regular panda

[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

I can agree to that

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

China has issued a very strong protest

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 3 points 6 months ago

But it was supressed with tan-

"Individual found dead in his house after typing a comment on a social media. Allegedly he tried to kill himself with 2 shotgun rounds to the head"

[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Are they charging my family for the bullet?

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Them and opossums. They’re our special scavengers

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I prefer skunks. Cute, practically harmless, and watching people absolutely flip out when they get spooked by one is a favorite past-time of mine.

[–] kerrigan778@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I do love our opossums but they are technically an invasive species in a lot of their current range. But they coexist so well with people that it's hard to mind.