Mother nature winner and loser (snake vs toad ) be warned
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Vic Balshaw
Major General
That is one big old brute and just look at them claws.
Wildcat
Major
With claws like that he can have em!The fella above looks like being interested in your models. It might have been a scout.
parsifal
Colonel
i kid you not. this is a true storey. Once quite recently, near canberra, i was driving down a rough dirt road, flanked by 1.5m high rural fences on either side of the road. The width of the road reserve was probably about 8m. There was a mob of kangaros, with two stuck on one side. one was a very big buck, the other looked like a female, but cant be sure. Effortlessly, as i drove down this road, the buck lept over the two fences and the road in one jump. I clocked him at over 40kmh and he got airborne that was well above the height of the truck. They can be pretty energetic....There have been numerous fatalities on australian roads from roos. one case that i know of, the roo came through the screen and decapitated the occupants as it travelled from the front of the vehicle to the back. That animal is understood to have survived the encounter.
Wildcat
Major
My brother hit a roo in his car doing about 60kph. The roo got flung over the bonnet and across to the other side of the road, it got up and hopped away! Banged his car up though.
GrauGeist
Generalfeldmarschall zur Luftschiff Abteilung
I'll bet our Canadian friends have a few stories of what a Moose or Elk can do to a car...
Here in Poland it is easier to hit a wild boar than a roo or a moose on a road. But damages made to a car can be the same terrible. On the other hand, two years ago a troop of European bisons bottled up an airfield of one of the PAF airbases. Just the grass there must have been very tasty for them.
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Jeff Hunt
1st Lieutenant
Closeup of a garter snake in my yard.
Cheers,
jeff
Wildcat
Major
Nice shot Jeff!
Very cute. The thing I like the most is their eyes.
at6
1st Sergeant
Still creeps me out. Hard to find anything pretty about serpentaria.
Old Wizard
2nd Lieutenant
My late mother feared snakes greatly. She was born on a farm in Nebraska and was trained never to go out on the porch before checking for rattlers.
As a kid in Regina Sask., I once proudly brought home a garter snake, knowing full well it would freak her out. It did! The Devil made me do it.
As a kid in Regina Sask., I once proudly brought home a garter snake, knowing full well it would freak her out. It did! The Devil made me do it.
