Call me crazy, but if I’m going fishing in a part of the ocean with sharks, I’m doing so on something more substantial than a kayak.
Pretty depressing to read that they may or may not be dying from this behavior sort of behavior, and how few are left of the that specific iteration (article cited 39). Going to be really sad if orcas die off in my lifetime. Them and elephants
That was probably not too serious but they kill for territorial reasons and not food pretty sure they did not eat that dear
When I was in South Africa we did a guided tour on this reserve and I remember the guide took us to this lake where a bunch of hippos were chilling in and we were pretty close and he was going over all these stats about how they are the deadliest mammal in Africa towards humans while the hippos were a few feet away staring at us and I was like maybe this is not the best of ideas to be here
best luxury tourism tour drop ever right here folks, only thing that could have topped it off is if Wad of 100s and Magnums actually saved a baby hippo and brought that non binary individual back home.
A few Stoffel stories, the GOAT of honey badgers. “..after years of living in his own they decided to find him a female companion to join him in the enclosure. First thing Stoffel did? Stood on her head and used her to climb over the wall.”
I did not expect to name drop South African animal tourism stuff (I studied abroad at Univ of Cape Town for two months and went on 'safari' the last week before coming back home but I am certainly privileged) but I went to this rehabilitation center while in South Africa and went to Stoffel's enclosure. I also saw the Lion area and the male lion there was by far the most massive lion I've ever seen. I guess that fits in with the honey badger narrative that he broke out of his enclosure and was like: first task, kill one of the biggest lions on the planet. Mad lad
"Ron Williams says he was at the bar on Saturday night into early Sunday morning when a man... "Jumped in the water trying to swim around antagonizing the alligators......."
Growing up we had a bar in my hometown that had a creek out back with a deck. We would buy chicken necks before going and feed the gators out there. One night, the big one decided he wanted to explore and made his way into the bar through the back door that always stayed open.