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Chris Brooke
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"an already elusive subject is considered here from a variety of oblique angles"
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Snake (in Belgium)
Reindeer (in Finland)
Seal (In the Netherlands)
Hornet (in French)
Great Stag Beetle (in Italy)
Unfortunately only the snake on camera
November 28, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Penguins (Australia)
Tortoises (Turkey)
Flamingoes (Turkey)
Haggis (Scotland)
Monkeys (India)
- hares (Scotland)
- scalloped hammerhead sharks (Fiji)
- hoopoe (India)
- flamingoes (France)
- this excellent giraffe (Uganda)
November 28, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Eric Burdon (Newcastle)
Alan Price (Newcastle)
Chas Chandler (Newcastle)
Hilton Valentine (Newcastle)
John Steel (Newcastle)
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild

- beaver (in Scotland)
- platypus (in Queensland)
- skunk (in California)
- raccoon (in Massachusetts)
- boar (in Italy)
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild

- badger
- badger
- badger
- badger
- SNAKE!
- mushroom mushroom
November 28, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild

- Owl (I think Great Horned owl)
- Great blue heron
- Dolphin
- Sea lion
- Red-tailed hawk

That's limiting it to the city of San Francisco. Once a hawk killed a pigeon and ate it in our apple tree.
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild

- beaver (in Scotland)
- platypus (in Queensland)
- skunk (in California)
- raccoon (in Massachusetts)
- boar (in Italy)
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild

- badger
- badger
- badger
- badger
- SNAKE!
- mushroom mushroom
November 28, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Stoat (Ireland)
Red squirrel (Ireland)
Leatherback turtle (Trinidad)
Otter (Shetland)
Tortoise (Greece)
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild

- beaver (in Scotland)
- platypus (in Queensland)
- skunk (in California)
- raccoon (in Massachusetts)
- boar (in Italy)
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild

- badger
- badger
- badger
- badger
- SNAKE!
- mushroom mushroom
November 28, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Least weasel - Michigan (native)
Least weasel - Yorkshire (native)
White tailed deer - Michigan
Grey squirrel - Michigan (native)
Grey squirrel - UK (not native)
November 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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- hares (Scotland)
- scalloped hammerhead sharks (Fiji)
- hoopoe (India)
- flamingoes (France)
- this excellent giraffe (Uganda)
November 28, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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- so many foxes (my garden in London)
- dolphins (Tremadoc Bay)
- moose (Norway)
- a Golden Eagle, I’m almost certain (Scotland)
- Black Rhino (Tanzania)
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild

- beaver (in Scotland)
- platypus (in Queensland)
- skunk (in California)
- raccoon (in Massachusetts)
- boar (in Italy)
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild

- badger
- badger
- badger
- badger
- SNAKE!
- mushroom mushroom
November 28, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Red Fox - NLD
Common European adder - France
Xylocopa violacea - Sicily
Goldcrest - NLD
Common buzzard - NLD, many times but most notably a neighbour's town garden
And whatever this cute little thing is - own NLD garden.
November 28, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Here's a still from the BBC report about the late, lamented Enkidu's visit to the boatyard site the better part of twenty years ago. And nothing has happened since.
November 28, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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not to be dramatic but this should be a crime
The Hong Kong-based landowners of Jericho Wharf have “finally conceded they had no new scheme”, according to the Jericho Wharf Trust. The Trust is lobbying for Oxford City Council to compulsorily purchase the derelict site on the Oxford Canal.
November 28, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Peregrine falcon (Bristol)
Eagle owl (Bristol)
Honey badger (Tanzania)
Aardvark (South Africa)
Sugar glider (Australia)
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild.

Fox (Chorlton-cum-Hardy)
Hedgehog (Chorlton-cum-Hardy)
Goshawk (Chorlton-cum-Hardy)
Parakeet (Chorlton-cum-Hardy)
Terrapin (Whalley Range)
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild

Fox (Tower Hamlets)
Mouse (Tower Hamlets)
Heron (Tower Hamlets)
Falcon (Tower Hamlets)
Kingfisher (Tower Hamlets)
November 28, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild:
1. fox (my street)
2. grass snake (in the river Cam)
3. eel (river Cam)
4. peregrine falcons (Cambridge city centre)
5. kingfisher (by the river)
Bonus because not really native: muntjac deer (my garden)
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild:

1. Spectacled bears (Aguas Calientes, Peru)
2. Mooses (Ontario, Canada)
3. Green-and-white hummingbirds (Cusco, Peru)
4. Grey seals (Strumble Head, Pembs)
5. Welsh Mountain ponies (Preselis, Pembs)

(Last 2 regular parts of my childhood)
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild

1) White tailed deer (our backyard)
2) Turkey (our backyard)
3) Groundhog (our backyard)
4) Gray Squirrel (our backyard)
5) Red Bat (our backyard)

The most exotic things I've seen in our yard are a Luna Moth and a Black Widow Spider.
November 28, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Introduce yourself with animals you have seen in the wild

Bison - SD
Prairie Dog -SD
Golden Eagle - Donegal, just about, with some suspension of disbelief.
Fox/rabbit/hare/squirrel (grey and red), woodcock, snipe - Donegal, that my dogs have tried to kill.
Viper - France.
Rally fans - Donegal.
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild

- beaver (in Scotland)
- platypus (in Queensland)
- skunk (in California)
- raccoon (in Massachusetts)
- boar (in Italy)
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild

- badger
- badger
- badger
- badger
- SNAKE!
- mushroom mushroom
November 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Kingfishers (Goa, India)
Bats (in our garden)
Deer (east Devon)
Red kites (Chilterns)
Buzzards (east Devon)
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild

- beaver (in Scotland)
- platypus (in Queensland)
- skunk (in California)
- raccoon (in Massachusetts)
- boar (in Italy)
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild

- badger
- badger
- badger
- badger
- SNAKE!
- mushroom mushroom
November 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild.

Heron (Magdalen)
Fox (Magdalen)
Badger (Magdalen)
Roe deer (Magdalen)
Kingfisher (Magdalen)

But I have yet to see the otters that live here.
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild.

Fox (Chorlton-cum-Hardy)
Hedgehog (Chorlton-cum-Hardy)
Goshawk (Chorlton-cum-Hardy)
Parakeet (Chorlton-cum-Hardy)
Terrapin (Whalley Range)
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild

Fox (Tower Hamlets)
Mouse (Tower Hamlets)
Heron (Tower Hamlets)
Falcon (Tower Hamlets)
Kingfisher (Tower Hamlets)
November 28, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Fox (if I don’t see at least one on my ride home I feel slightly cheated)
Muntjac (north Oxfordshire)
Seals (Norfolk)
Rat (my front garden)
Mouse (also in my front garden, and almost immediately after I’d seen it, in the mouth of a cat)
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild

- beaver (in Scotland)
- platypus (in Queensland)
- skunk (in California)
- raccoon (in Massachusetts)
- boar (in Italy)
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild

- badger
- badger
- badger
- badger
- SNAKE!
- mushroom mushroom
November 28, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild

Black bear - Virginia
Red fox - Virginia
Raccoon - in a knothole, riverside park, manhattan
Turkey vulture - my dad’s house in PA
A jolly fat red squirrel who took cookie crumbs from my fingers with his wee lil hands - LA
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild

1) White tailed deer (our backyard)
2) Turkey (our backyard)
3) Groundhog (our backyard)
4) Gray Squirrel (our backyard)
5) Red Bat (our backyard)

The most exotic things I've seen in our yard are a Luna Moth and a Black Widow Spider.
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild

- beaver (in Scotland)
- platypus (in Queensland)
- skunk (in California)
- raccoon (in Massachusetts)
- boar (in Italy)
November 28, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Badger -Suffolk
Forest Reindeer - Finland
Mediterranean tortoise- Menorca
Fruit bat- Mahe Seychelles
Rhesus macaque-Delhi
November 28, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild

- rhino
- orca
- elk
- hedgehog (in a pub entrance)
- black bear (back garden)
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild

- beaver (in Scotland)
- platypus (in Queensland)
- skunk (in California)
- raccoon (in Massachusetts)
- boar (in Italy)
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild

- badger
- badger
- badger
- badger
- SNAKE!
- mushroom mushroom
November 28, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild:

- American Alligator (Florida)
- Bald Eagle (Maryland)
- Black Witch Moth (The Bahamas)
- Sandhill Crane (Florida)
- Eastern Hercules Beetle (Virginia)
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild

- beaver (in Scotland)
- platypus (in Queensland)
- skunk (in California)
- raccoon (in Massachusetts)
- boar (in Italy)
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild

- badger
- badger
- badger
- badger
- SNAKE!
- mushroom mushroom
November 28, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild

- White Tailed Deer (Indiana)
- Bison (Oklahoma)
- Prairie Dog (New Mexico)
- Pike (Colorado)
- Grizzly Bear (Wyoming)
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild

- beaver (in Scotland)
- platypus (in Queensland)
- skunk (in California)
- raccoon (in Massachusetts)
- boar (in Italy)
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild

- badger
- badger
- badger
- badger
- SNAKE!
- mushroom mushroom
November 28, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild.

Fox (Chorlton-cum-Hardy)
Hedgehog (Chorlton-cum-Hardy)
Goshawk (Chorlton-cum-Hardy)
Parakeet (Chorlton-cum-Hardy)
Terrapin (Whalley Range)
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild

Fox (Tower Hamlets)
Mouse (Tower Hamlets)
Heron (Tower Hamlets)
Falcon (Tower Hamlets)
Kingfisher (Tower Hamlets)
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild

- beaver (in Scotland)
- platypus (in Queensland)
- skunk (in California)
- raccoon (in Massachusetts)
- boar (in Italy)
November 28, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Introduce yourself with five animals you've seen in the wild:

- Absolute unit ginger and white neighbour cat called Buddy
- grey squirrels everywhere
- effing foxes shitting on my garden sofa
- bloody rats terraforming my flowerbed
- several mice brought indoors by Daphne
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild

- beaver (in Scotland)
- platypus (in Queensland)
- skunk (in California)
- raccoon (in Massachusetts)
- boar (in Italy)
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild

- badger
- badger
- badger
- badger
- SNAKE!
- mushroom mushroom
November 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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- Earthworm (UK)
- Red squirrel (UK)
- Grey squirrel (UK)
- Gray squirrel (US&A)
- Heron (NL)
- Widdle bambi deer thing (NL)
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild

- beaver (in Scotland)
- platypus (in Queensland)
- skunk (in California)
- raccoon (in Massachusetts)
- boar (in Italy)
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild

- badger
- badger
- badger
- badger
- SNAKE!
- mushroom mushroom
November 28, 2025 at 1:51 PM