• _stranger_@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    They’re not kidding about the hogs. They’re not just road hazards, they will fuck you up in person and they’re tough as fuck. They’re invasive, and in Texas you can pay to hunt them from a helicopter.

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    Illinoisian here

    I used to enjoy hiking a lot when I was younger. I’d just go wherever. Private property. Sometimes reservations or parks but just wherever.

    And I would occasionally come across some deer. Majestic animals. Also the bucks are huge.

    I mean. I don’t think people realize how big these animals are. Pure muscle.

    They aren’t as big as a horse but not that much smaller. Like a little smaller than caribou.

    I was always scared of the bucks.

    In the winter (mating season and hunting season), they do get pretty territorial. And I had heard of urban legend stories that they would attack women on their period. Idk if that’s true but if one of them took a run at you, yeah they would fuck you up. Impale you. Stomp you.

    They got cute faces but just avoid them. Especially in the winter.

    It’s like our version of a smaller moose.

    Idk if this statistics includes attacks only or car accidents.

    They certainly cause a lot of fatal car accidents in the rural areas too.

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    8 days ago

    FL has tons of things that will kill you besides gators, even if you take away the most dangerous one “Florida man”. Gators aren’t as much of a problem as rattlesnakes or water moccasins in my experience. Or the black/brown recluse spiders, those fuckers are everywhere.

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      7 days ago

      There has only been one fatal wolf attack in the US in recorded history. Any attacks by wolves are extremely rare, as most are quite way of people. I’d assume that’s why they aren’t included.

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        Beauty and the Beast (1991) contains TWO wolf attack scenes. Are you telling me that Disney didn’t research nature correctly?

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          7 days ago

          To be fair, Beauty and the Beast was set in France.

          Sorry for being a pedantic shit, because you made me giggle.