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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See the thing is i’m not worldly enough to know what common animals in my country are uncommon in other countries. I mean there’s some mallards here and there, the ones with the green head just like the meme, are those exotic and surprising? Oh, my old hometown has swans. They’re surprisingly aggressive.
What i will say though is that i definitely feel that way about architecture. I quite like the winding medieval back alley leading to a church built in 980 (as in the year), it’s cool; but Americans will have a spiritual experience over it because no building in the US is that old.
my old hometown has swans. They’re surprisingly aggressive.
Swans are just White Supremacist geese.
Here in Scotland tourists are always fascinated when we talk about the wild haggis running around.
When I went to Scotland I just wanted to see the Hairy Cows and the goddamn loch ness monster
Black bears of Surrey. (UK).
In UK people come from all over the world to see our royal family of great apes.
Peacocks. Where I live (central California) there is a local park that has a flock of wild peacocks. I had a friend visiting from Korea and he was so excited to see them.
I saw a white one in the wild once (prob albino) and that was a thing of beauty
There is one here too!
It’s wild to me that there are wild macaws in northern South America. Granted I haven’t seen them in person, but even videos of them look so weird, like a hundred people let their pets out on accident.
People are excited to see raccoons. If you’ve ever had to make major repairs to your property, this makes no sense to you.
People somehow don’t even think about hummingbirds. We get ruby throated hummingbirds through here, and they’re fascinating. Never had a visitor even mention them.
hummingbirds. saw 4 at the same time on a feeder once, and they don’t even like each other apparently
They can be quite territorial.
Trash panda!
Really? Where I’m from in the states there are robins fucking everywhere
American Robins are not the same as European Robins.
American Robins were named so because they vaguely reminded British settlers of their robins “from home”.
I am aware of the two different species. I never noticed a stark difference between the tone of red/orange between the two.
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Okay, so it isn’t animals, but tourists in my parents’ town get stoked when they see how big the Monongahela River actually is. They think a nearby creek is the river and we’re like, “that’s a creek. Drive up the road a bit to see the river.”
The same tourists also lose their minds if they see a train filled with coal go by.
It’s all about the koalas and kangaroos but then they see a cockie or a rosella, hear a possum late at night and shit themselves
Can confirm. The rosellas were delightful. The Ibis were pretty awesome as well -such a trashy looking bird. Ours at least hides its shame (kiwi).
I have a mate who lives in midwestern us and they utterly lose their shit over the fact we just casually have all these parrots everywhere like nbd.
Shitting themselves over possums isn’t hyperbole for any non-Australians reading.
Possums at night sound like a demon crossed with a chainsaw.
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Moose. We get European summer students and seeing one is the highlight of their animal watching when they’re here, apparently.
Personally, I’m more impressed with elk, a bull elk with a full rack is pretty awesome.
Who doesn’t like a full rack.
Here in the US, I find most of my EU friends want to see the American Texan in the wild. Weird fetish, but hey, you do you.
Pet them? wtf?
Are you serious? Why do you care if he’s rabid if you’ll be dead?
When I was a teenager, I was walking past a bear cub (it was the middle of the city and some asshole took money for pictures with a “trained” bear cub). The cub didn’t like me for some reason I had a textile bag in my hand, with a leather-cover notepad in it, like a knock-off moleskin. The cub slashed the bag and his fangs cut through the bag and half of the notepad like butter. If it was my hip, he’d scratch my bones.
Now there are adult bears…Great, I believe in humanity again!
I saw a comment on here I think which said that a big problem in parks which have bears is that it’s really difficult to design a rubbish bin which is simultaneously too difficult for the smartest bear to open but also easy enough for the dumbest human. These types of anecdotes make me believe that more and more.
I’ll answer the opposite way: in South America we have no crows, so it was by far the most fascinating animal I saw while in England.
That’s wild, I thought crows lived everywhere humans do.
