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What in your country/area is totally normal but visitors get excited for? (sh.itjust.works)
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I've only been abroad one time, and there were little gecko/lizard things everywhere, climbing up walls and scurrying across roads, and nobody cared. I was constantly fascinated but to the locals they're just kinda there.

Bonus question to anyone who visited the UK - was there anything that fascinated you but I'd be taking for granted?

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[–] 41 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I'm lucky enough that I see these little guys on a regular basis.

The first time I went to London, the size of the Ravens caught me off guard. I couldn't get enough of seeing those things. We only really see Grackles in South Texas that regularly and they're half the size, so I'm sure I was the weird bird guy that day to many people.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Fuck these things! I moved into an old wood cabin on the edge of town with a small crawl space. Two of these little fuckers got underneath the house and sounded like they were carrying a heavy rock, scraping against other rocks(r as one fever dream showed me, a tiny coffin). Also you can't bait them cause they only dig up and eat live grubs. So you have to study their movements and set up some 2x4 walls to guide them into a trap. And they can jump like you wouldn't believe! When I released one of them out in the boondocks near a creek, the little fucker reared back and launched itself four feet straight up in the air to clear a fence.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I've eaten armadillo (yes, it tastes like chicken). This was before I found out they can apparently spread leprosy to humans.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Only the nine banded ones. I had to do some research on dillos when I had to trap a couple under my house. Now they are the more common ones in the southern US, but there are so many more types. Like check out this cute little fucker named the pink fairie armadillo

    Completely leprosy free!

    Edit to add: But please don't eat it!

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    But please don’t eat it!

    In my defense, in addition to finding out after the fact that armadillos carry leprosy, I found out that the one I ate was roadkill.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Omg that sounds foul! I to Uber in a small town and some rider saw a road kill whitetail with it's legs starting to create an obtuse angle it was so bloated, and seriously said we should pick it up.

    First, I've been hunting before and cleaned my own deer once (but don't plan on doing it again unless it's the collapse of the food supply chain)

    Second, that being said I'm not opposed to it cause I understand a healthy population needs occasional culling of the weak and/or diseased.(I know that may sound heartless, but it's legit how nature works)

    And lastly, who the fuck looks at a animal that's been dead for an unknown amount of time and thinks "dinner"‽

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Grackles being half the size is a bit of an understate, a common grackle tops out at about 5 oz & 13" with a wingspan up to 18". A raven's common size, on the larger end, is 4½ lbs & 28" with a 60" wingspan.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Absolutely. Grackles are like my hard wired "default bird size", so when I saw what looked like a grackle the size of a dog, it short circuited the more logical, in charge of measuring things parts of my brain.

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