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"Trash Panda" is my most favorite nick name for a racoon. They tend to be very mean too.

Possums can look a bit funky but they are really good to have around. They don’t bother people and they eat a ton of ticks and other critters you don’t really want around.

My daughter is a veterinarian, and when she lived in Las Vegas she had a family bring in their " dog" they had found as a pup. It was very well behaved, and was a great pet for them.....when my daughter informed them they had a coyote, they kept it as it was such a good " dog"!!!

As a US resident. Seeing a bald eagle is amazing, no matter how many times you see one. I had one take a fish after I threw it back in the lake. It was amazing to see it just swoop in and grab it, then take off.

Coyotes can be found in the city. They have adapted their hunting tactics and will often go after dogs along with other small animals.

I was surprised Lawrence didn't mention Bison, Moose, Wolves, Mountain Lions, Panthers, Bobcats, Elk, Black and Brown Bears, Feral Hogs and a whole plethora of other indigenous animals that people should avoid if coming across them. Feral Hogs aren't exactly indigenous, but they have multiplied so quickly and have spread quickly all over the South and West.

Seeing bald eagles flying stirs the heart. They're so beautiful, majestic, all that. They returned to town a year after my son was born (1988) at Quabbin Reservoir and have grown to about a reported 20? Its a great place to hike, take your children - and see them. Opossum is what we call it in my part of the country, the same creature was called' 'possom down south.

As a kid, it wasn't uncommon for me to meet a person that kept a raccoon as a pet. The story usually went that the raccoon showed up. The person hung out with it for a while, maybe weeks or months. Then, before the person knew it, they bought a dog bed for it and it came and went as it pleased through a dog door.

Fun fact, bald eagles are hatched without their white crest, and remain all brown until around two years old. They also weigh approximately 7lbs as an adult. Dollywood, an amusement park in the Smokey Mountains, is a bald Eagle sanctuary and their birds are often demonstrated to guests of the park.

We here in America have a mythical beast called the Jack-A-Lope. Half jackrabbit and half antelope. Curiously none have been caught on video.

Coyotes are pack hunters that are comfortable in suburban neighborhoods. They eat cats and small dogs, so apart from cars, they're a huge reason why the US has heavily shifted to indoor-only pets.

I hope y'all are having a wonderful trip and enjoying yourselves. When you are in the U.S. I hope you venture out of the big cities during your visit. A lot of the best and most interesting parts of the U.S. are found in the smaller cities and towns.

I swear I don’t care what anyone says this New Zealand Family always goes out with a BANG and brighten up my day I love you 4!💯⭐️🤩❤️❤️❤️

As far as the Opossum, the pronunciation is "Possum", the O is silent. Also I loved the look Atlanta gave her dad when he said "deer taste good." Ooooh, she was NOT happy with that remark. LOL

Mario actually used a Tanuki suit. Tanuki are a Japanese animal in the canine family but look very similar to raccoons. Tanuki are mostly carnivores not omnivores like raccoons. The Tanuki are in Japanese mythology mostly as transforming tricksters and annoying spirit animals with fat bellies and glide on their um nether regions. Raccoons eat anything that they can get their paws on but their paws are unique as they can function similarly to human hands minus the thumb. They always are careful often washing food in water nearby and act more sneaky than most animals. Unfortunately very nasty creatures as they can easily get rabies and will go through your trash if you’re not careful.

Lawrence has a wonderful dry sense of humor and his videos are always entertaining while dumping exposition.

There is a ground hog burrow in my neighborhood, underneath a tool shed where I've seen groundhog females and cubs live since the 1980's. I have encounter opossums, skunks, and raccoons in my neighborhood in northeastern New Jersey. Coyotes have sped across the U.S. because wolves and wildcats have been hunted a lot and coyotes move in because they don't have to compete with larger animals. The raccoons suit in Mario Bros. is actually based on a native Japanese animal called a tanuki also called a raccoon dog. They resemble raccoons in appearances and behavior but are half the size of raccoons, a separate spiece of canid related to wolves and foxes.

The official weather forecasting groundhog's name is Punxatawney Phil, but I can't say with certainty what Roman numerals might follow the current one's name. They do an elaborate ceremony with him on Groundhog Day.

Funny groundhog story. 5 years ago or so wife and I started what's called a lasagna garden, called so because you build it about 4' x 4' and you layer different things before putting in the soil to prevent weeds. Anyhoo, we planted tomatoes, zucchini, cucumbers, peppers, and romaine lettuce(guess you can call it a salad garden). Well, everything was growing beautifully. Especially the lettuce. We had about 4 beautiful heads of lettuce. I took great pride showing this to my father in law who was at my house for a project we were doing. Well, we had to run out to get some supplies. When we returned, I noticed the lettuce was gone down to the nub. All 4 heads, gone. Freaking groundhogs ate it while we were gone. Took only an hour. Found out I had a family of groundhogs living under my shed.

Every single day, i see raccoons, deer, squirrel, and more. Im so used to it, never realized its unique to the world

We also have what is called "Key Deer". They are only found in the Florida Keys. Full grown about the size of a golden retriever dog. They are protected as there is less than 200.

I saw my first wild bald eagle last year here in Kentucky. I've seen them in the zoo and on TV but never in the wild. I was driving home and had to cross over a reservoir. As I was on the bridge, an eagle flew up from the water and was at eye level as I drove over. It was awesome.😍 The coyotes now hunt in cities and urban areas as well. They will hunt cats and small dogs in these areas.

I've seen all of these animals over the years. The scariest encounter I had was 4 years ago when I was visiting my cousin in rural Pennsylvania and I decided to take a walk at 3:00 am. I looked to my right and thought to myself there is no bush at this location, then the bush moved and I heard a deep growl, I knew then it was a bear and I could not outrun it back to the house. I pulled out my trusty Sig .40 pistol and slowly walked back to the house, lucky for me and the bear we both were fine and he was just giving me a warning growl lol.

I've had 2 pet raccoons. They are very loving and playful but also very smart, hardheaded and mischievous.

Cindy's Dad here. The Groundhog is a type of ground squirrel belonging to the marmot family, and therefore are rodents. They do hibernate during the winter when the temperature drops far enough.

Another name for ground hog is woodchuck. There is a word game where you try to say the following three times as fast as you can. "How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck would chuck wood?"

I had a friend that had a pet skunk. Her name was Petunia and she was THE SWEETEST THING! They remove their scent gland which renders them helpless so they must be kept inside. She was litter trained and when I picked her up she put her front paws on both sides of my neck and laid her head against my shoulder. I’ve always wanted one since. They come in black and gray. She was gray with white stripes. 🥰

I lived a number of years in Baltimore, Maryland. I left for the state of Washington in the late 2000s (before 2010). During my residency, I walked or rode buses, so had a pedestrian's eye view of the areas I traveled, and I have to say Baltimore, though very urban, is rich with wildlife. Birds: hummingbirds, orioles, cardinals, mourning doves, mallards, green herons, great white herons, red-tailed hawks, and bald eagles Mammals: flying squirrels, squirrels, chipmunks, bats, raccoons, possums, groundhogs, beavers, skunks, coyotes, red foxes (not all red foxes are red), white-tailed deer, and otters Reptiles: snapping turtles, soft-shell turtles, box turtles, blue-tailed skinks, copperheads, water moccasins, rattlesnakes, rat snakes Amphibians: spring peepers, leopard frogs, and a variety of salamanders and newts This is a short list of the creatures I personally have encountered that walk the streets and properties of Baltimore. I feel good about the fact that I've seen bald eagles in the wild in Maryland and in Washington state. But then, I've also seen raccoons in both places.

You guys are awesome. I live in Rhode Island USA. We encounter every animal shown except the mule deer sometimes daily most the time we ain't paying attention. Wild life ignores you if you ignore it

Years ago, we visited the Alaska Raptor Center in Sitka, Alaska. They showed us a live Bald Eagle up close, just feet from us. He was on a handheld perch, not in a cage. His name was Volta because he had flown into a high-voltage line and was seriously hurt. It was totally impressive! The power in his presence was amazing. About raccoons: When I was a kid, we would go to the St. Louis Zoo and feed the raccoons Cracker Jacks and popcorn. They would reach up and gently take the treat from our hands. We thought they were cute. Years later, after I married a farm girl, I heard her cuss out @$%&! raccoons because they ruin crops and kill chickens.

Dear God in Heaven! We were camping in the N.C. mountains and nearly every campsite was taken. Around 2:30 AM something pissed off a skunk so much that his ass exploded. Sleep was impossible. Kids were crying and people were throwing up. This continued for around 4 hours. There were no streetlights or any light for that matter. Evacuating in pitch dark would be difficult considering the sheer number of people. As soon as the first rays of the sun were up and we could see EVERYONE packed up and left. We went to a hotel and the people in the rooms on either side of us had been at the campsite too. We all had the story of people running for their lives as one skunk took out 750 people!

I grew up in Chicago then moved to the suburbs. A few years ago there were "rumors" of a panther roaming around the city and suburbs. "Hey, well, you know, that's so unlikely it's just ..." Whoa, it was a real panther (though we usually call them cougars or mountain lions). Funny I don't remember the outcome, if it was captured or chose to move on.

Here in the city in California we have quite a few coyotes...I see them on the security cameras at night - there are stories ALL THE TIME on Nextdoor of them shredding cats to pieces. Also, when I lived in San Diego (although this can happen anywhere) my co-worker had her 7-month old chihuahua scooped up by a hawk in her backyard...possibly a Harrier or Red-tailed Hawk. What a horrible way to die!! 😱

I heard you also have orcs, goblins, elves, dwarves, hobbits, wizards, elyphonts, and dragons down there in your stunningly beautiful country. Cant wait till you all get over..... Its getting closer. ❤ from Fla USA

So many more, too, though not all are exclusive to America as Lawrence said. My vote for one of the weirdest are armadillos, which originated in South America but can certainly be found in the US.

I love how interested and vocal Denzel is in this reaction lol!

The Bald Eagle was heading to extinction when I was a child. Luckily they outlawed the pesticide that was killing them and they have made a huge comeback! I see them a couple times a week and more often if I go looking for them. 🦅 I'm surprised Laurence didn't mention porcupines or buffalo 🦬

I saw a bald eagle soaring over my therapist's office the other day. Right in the middle of the city. Michigan is great. 😂

Skunks are nothing to sneeze at. Back in early 2018, both of our dogs escaped our fenced-in yard. (One of the gates wasn't fully latched.) The oldest dog (Who would later die just a few months later at the age of 17) walked his way back before noon that day. (He was familiar with the area because he was a reroaming dog for the first several years of his life.) But the youngest, about 8 years old at the time, was not familiar with the area that much, as she had been fenced I her entire life. Well, she did not return. She was gone forever, it seemed...until exactly one week later, when she feverishly scratched at my front door one evening. I let her in...and she smelled like SKUNK something awful. So what I figured happened was that both dogs got out, encountered a skunk, and tne youngest got sprayed with their Scent , and was unable to smell herself home, until it wore off enough for her to do so. If it can mess up a dog's sense of smell, you know it's gotta be potent. But it's funny, once we got my puppy cleaned up, she was so loving towards us, being g9ne for a week and having to scrounge for food and water, she was just so grateful for being home. And this was in February when we were having quite a Cold snap with 20°F (-7°C) weather.

We live in Southwest Florida and have a couple of trash pandas that live in the palms behind our house. I'm a night owl so I see them late at night. They are very well behaved and never get into our trash bins that are just 20 ft away. Plenty of lizards and fruit trees for them to eat around here so they probably don't need to get into the trash.

I'll help interact with your videos. Your family deserves a million subscribers and more.

I live in Nacogdoches, Texas and I hope you enjoy your traveling through our great state! Giving y'all a huge Texas welcome!!!

I live in Northern Indiana and I've seen several groundhogs! They just hide A LOT. They rarely just run around in the daytime doing things. Very sneaky. But I've been here my whole life so I've seen a few.

Oppossums are cute as heck when they are babies. The adults are totally weird looking, but they seem to be relatively gentle, sweet animals.

I would love to hear legendary animals from New Zealand. That would be so cool. There are so many mythical creature stories here in the USA. The most famous is Bigfoot.

Living in Illinois along the Mississippi River, we have a lot of bald eagles winter here. It's really neat to see 20 of them up in a tree. And there are many pairs that nest and raise their young ones around here.

I've got raccoons, opossums, squirrels, mantises, butterflies, dragonflies, mockingbirds, blue jays, lizards, and frogs, hanging around my yard in the middle of Houston. My parents have a whole Disney Princess fairytale thing going on in their yard in Montana, with foxes, herds of deer, black bears, blue birds, chipmunks, butterflies, cranes, etc just naturally hanging out. And they live just down the road from HUGE herds of bison, and random elk. Occasional moose.

Came home late from work one night and found 5 raccoons on my porch helping themselves to some food I'd left out for a couple of neighborhood stray cats. I live in the middle of a city but close to a river and have had frequent sightings of several of the animals in this video. Hope you're enjoying your American tour!

Possums are actually very beneficial to our environment, and they will keep other small rodents away also they don't bother you. I am very fortunate to see eagles all the time and I am always in awe when I see such beautiful birds of prey. We have so many beautiful animals and birds here in Michigan and all throughout the United States. Every country has been blessed with beautiful creatures, and it's wonderful to see people like yourselves showing them.

The most famous groundhog in the world is none other than Punxsutawney Phil, who is used by weathermen around the globe to predict the coming of Spring every February 2nd. In fact, as you pointed out, the movie Groundhog Day was filmed in Punxsutawney, and other than the actors, the festival is a real thing. Thousands of people show up even before the sun rises to watch a group of men in Tuxedoes pull a groundhog out of a cage and then read from a scroll to say whether winter will linger or if spring is coming. Ironically, if you count from February 2nd, it is literally SIX WEEKS before the first day of spring anyway.

I'm in northeastern Illinois about 35 miles north of Chicago. We have all of these except the mule deer. They're out west. Opossums AKA possums are actually as cute as can be. There are occasionally "coyote warnings" in the local forest preserves during the season when coyotes have their pups and are more aggressive.

I’ve never been fortunate enough to see bald eagles in the contiguous 48 states but when visiting Alaska in my twenties, saw a group of them hanging out on a beach. I’m not sure what I expected it but they were huge. Made an impression for sure.

Wassup guys! Good to see another reaction video. Sending love and prayers from sunny California 🇺🇸❤️🇳🇿

When I was 13 we rescued abandoned baby opossums that had fallen from a tree in our backyard. Luckily for us a gal in our neighborhood worked with exotic animals and was able to bottle feed them til they could eat solid food. She gave us one of them, we named him Opie and he was so sweet and cute. Lived in our backyard once he got cat size. We had a rabbit cage on our back porch that he slept in during the day and at night we had it open so he could wander the yard and eat bugs etc. He got bit by a wild female one day and the bite got infected. We did everything we could, got antibiotics and everything but he passed away. We were so sad, he was a beautiful animal. We loved feeding him fruits and bugs that we found ( he always spit out the grape peels) and holding him. I wouldn’t recommend just trying to domesticate a random possum our circumstances were pretty unique. If you live in an area that they inhabit you will see them if you leave cat food outside at night. They love cat food for some reason. We have cats now and they are outdoors as we need them to hunt so we keep their food outside. The possums will come up to our porch at night and eat the food. What’s funny is our cats will just watch them. I guess they aren’t threatened by them.

When I lived on Nob Hill in SF, we had a family of foxes. SF’s Golden Gate Park is replete with wildlife, plus there is the Bison Paddock. No escape in the Bay Area from mountain lions, deer, wild turkeys.

The Jaguar used to be native to the US Southwest but was hunted to extinction. They still live and breed all over Mexico including some not far from the border and solitary males sometimes now do wander north of the border into the "sky island" mountains of southern Arizona. When they do so, they are sometimes caught on cameras that have been set up along game trails and water holes for that purpose. So far there is no breeding population in the US though. You should do something similar and set up cameras in the area of the South Island where the panther is rumored to be.

Fun fact… actually very sad fact is the first animal I accidentally hit w my car was a opossum (pronounced “possum”) I live in the country and they’re everywhere!! My sister had a mom and babies living in her house for a little bit before she noticed the new tenants😭

The groundhog is found all over the US. We have tons of them here in Illinois. Plus we never call the Opossum with the O. We just call them Possums and while they look evil, I had one as a pet growing up and it was accually sweet and loving.

When I first saw a bald eagle, my first impression was it being huge. I never pictured them being that large and instant respect comes across when I see them.

Hi how is/was America?

Your sound quality is great but the sound quality of the Lost in the Pond video is very very poor and low. Hard to hear and quite muffled...sounds like you have a pillow over the speaker or computer.

If you want to see all of these in the same season (except muule deer, have to go to the Rockies for those), come to the Mississippi River in the winter. Grafton, Illinois, hosts bald eagles during the winter, & you can see them all over the place. Ground hogs can get huge & wreck a car if hit. As for skunks, smell one for the first time & you'll never forget it...ever.

I had full black Pomeranian dog, one night let him out to go potty, went back to let him back in and dang near had a heart attack seeing him an and a skunk sniffing each other in the back corner of the backyard. The balance I had to have of calling him back in and not scaring the skunk was insane. My Bearbear made it back in without getting sprayed, and I’m convinced that skunk thought he was one of them. 😂😂

Here in Iowa growing up, I was always fascinated with raptors and always wanted to see a bald eagle. We now have many living in Iowa especially along the Mississippi river. We have a man in Decorah a town in the northeast. Who installed a camera over a nest and every year we get to watch the hatch and rearing of eagle chicks. It's on 24/7 except when they catch a cat or dog.

The story of Moose in New Zealand is very interesting. They were there and were thought to have been killed off, but sightings have persisted and an antler has been found in recent years. There’s probably a small population yet.

So a key to remember with this video is the title "Animals I encountered in the US". He lives/lived in the Midwest. Being from the suburban Midwest all of these animals except the mule deer are pretty common. Most of these animals are pretty common in suburban areas with the exception of the Bald Eagle, but the Bald Eagle has been making an incredible come back and expanding its range. I will say most Americans actually really like our furry and feathered friends. You just have to remember certain statistics like in 1900 there were 500K white tailed deer across North America and 76.3 million people. Now there are 30 million white tail deer and 331 million people. Alot of medium to large animal species are way more common now and have expanded ranges and at the same time there are more people in the US than ever. There is just alot of human wildlife interaction. So while we may complain when animals eat our garbage, garden, or pets we still love them. If you want to see some funny videos look up wheen canada geese attack, when turkeys attack, or deer / bear / racoon break ins.

When you travel to the states, you may run across prairie dogs (cute little varmints), armadillos (not so cute), and long horn cattle (especially in Ft. Worth, TX).

The O is silent in opossum. Mule deer are very common here in Utah. I get coyotes behind my house. The condor is huge and native, but rare, in the western USA. Prairie dogs, marmots, and cougars are common here in utah too.

The largest Eagle I saw was at a Sanctuary for injured wildlife. It measured 4ft. Tall, the wing was mangled.

I have coyote's running around my neighborhood all the time.. They are always in my yard early morning... but that's because we also have wild rabbits living in the neighborhood as well. Arizona is amazing for wild animals... the desert for sure!! lol

I have a fig tree that has become a sort of fruit pub for local wildlife. Sure I will sit around with squirrels, raccoons, foxes, and possums. I've named the ones who keep coming back and they've probably named me. However, it's time to scramble for the door and hide inside when a skunk arrives. They must be really lonely out there.

I have never encountered a skunk. And I pray that never changes. I live in Maryland, on the East Coast. And we do have eagles here as well. I will never forget this encounter several years ago. I was driving to church. There was an eagle about 100 feet up and then it suddenly came swooping down to within 20 feet of me, then hovered momentarily, then took off again! What an amazing sight!

In the midwest, large predatory birds have made a huge comeback in my lifetime. I'm nearly 50, and when I was a child in the 80's, you didn't see red-tailed hawks or bald eagles...at all. Today, they can be found all across the midwest, in prairies, woodlands, and along rivers. The reason we didn't have them when I was young is a sad story. In the 1960's & 70's they used DDT to poison pest bugs in fields and forests...it was HIGHLY effective at killing bugs, and it didn't kill other animals. At least, not directly. Large predatory birds (like red-tailed hawks) ate rodents who had been exposed...it didn't kill the rats or the hawks. Bald eagles ate fish and carcasses of animals who had been exposed to DDT...it didn't kill the fish or the eagles. Large waterfowl also ate fish, and they weren't killed either. Same goes for owls and many other birds. It didn't kill the animals directly...what it did was make their egg shells brittle...very brittle. So brittle that a nesting bald eagle (or other large bird) would crush the shells, therefor they couldn't successfully reproduce, and in the long run, it meant vast numbers of bird species died out in areas where DDT had been used. Eventually scientists and environmentalists found the cause of the problem, and it lead to the ban of the bug poison. It wasn't until the late 80's or even mid-90's before people started to see bald eagles again in our area, and return the wonder of seeing the majestic animal. Today, they're so common, I see multiple bald eagles every day driving for work. You won' t see them in cities obviously, but in any rural area, they aren't hard to find. They nest here all year round. I've seen multiple bald eagles, as well as turkey vultures, surrounding a deer carcass in a snowy field mid-winter, after the deer was struck by a car and limped into the field where it died. The eagles are top predators among birds, and they're every bit as beautiful as turkey vultures are ugly. Turkey vultures have featherless, red-heads, and black feathered bodies. They're also found year-round, often circling high above in search of dead deer or other road kill. And boy do we have lots of red-tailed hawks, and other smaller falcons as well. All these birds made dramatic comebacks in my lifetime.

On the west coast, we have marmots in the mountains. They are our version of the groundhog - not the same, but just about. We just spent the weekend in Whistler BC and saw several. They whistle, hence the name, Whistler. 😊

I've been in Alabama most my life and as a child, I had neighbors with pet skunks with their scent glands removed, of course. They're members of the ferret family and actually make good pets. They're super smart and cuddly.

I live in the country in central Illinois and see most of those routinely, the bald eagles less frequently. A trip further north in Illinois and they are everywhere.

I live in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho and I can confirm this. We have a Bald Eagle that hangs out right across from the animal clinic I work at in the trees. We watch for him all the time and it’s cool especially when you hear him making his calls. But most of the Pacific Northwest you see a lot more eagles. I moved to Idaho 2 years ago from Pennsylvania and it’s super rare to see one in Pennsylvania. But eagles are truly beautiful and majestic birds.

We see bald eagles all the time in western Pennsylvania…they are so beautiful!! 😊

I've lived in America almost my entire life, I spent three years in England. The only time I've ever seen bald eagles was at an aviary in England.

The Weather Channel and local tv stations usually carry the Groundhog Day ceremony. It’s usually very cold but the people who attend look like they’re having fun. It’s a nice diversion in the dead of winter. 🥶

When I was a kid, I used to have a groundhog that lived under the wooden stairs to the backyard of my house. Whenever my mom sang A bicycle built for two, the groundhog would always pop out to listen. He always came out to hear her sing that song.

As someone that works right down the road from a Bald Eagle nest, and someone that's gotten to see one up close and personal after a presentation by the American Eagle Foundation at a convention, I can say with 100% certainty that there's nothing else quite like seeing one in person, especially when it's out in the wild.

Indiana is directly below my state Michigan and Ohio is right below us and they are our college football rivals. This is also the home of America's Football team the Detroit Lions.

I usually dislike families using their kids in their content, but the way you do it is great, even watching your daughter basically do her own cooking show, love it.

We had a couple raccoons as pets when i was little. ( like 5 ish years old) 1 the female was very clean she would wash her paws in the water dish after eating. The male was a slob and a theif he had a stash under my moms dresser. If you were missing a hairbrush, watch, certain toys ect.. go check bandits stash.

I am from Coeur d'Alene, ID and can confirm that we do indeed have Bald Eagles a plenty in this area. We also have many of the animals on this list as well. Racoons, deer and skunks regularly visit our yard here.

I had a pet raccoon I named Rocky. He was a baby when I found him. He used to crawl up my legs and body and nibble at my ears. I eventually gave to a bar/restaurant owner who let him eat the scraps they threw out every night.

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Though “opossum” is sometimes shortened to “possum” in North America, with the two words often being used synonymously, this is technically a misnomer. The proper name for the scaly-tailed creature with a pointed head (that may be baring its teeth) is opossum.

Very funny man. He didn't mention the little California Condor bird. Oh well! I so enjoy what you folks do....makes me smile!

I live in Pennsylvania and the wild animal that I still feel excited about seeing a porcupine. Still remember that. The groundhog that "predicts" the weather is also from my state and his name is Punxsutawney (punks a taw knee) Phil. Male or female it has retained this name for YEARS!!

I have a 5lb doggie that loves to act like he's half wolf and we live in mid Michigan. He's had a couple encounters with skunks and racoons. No porcupines. I ran out of my shoes when I saw a frozen opossum under my porch. In Texas there were armadillos and prairie dogs, jack rabbits and squirrels.

Woodchuck, groundhog, and marmot are 3 names for the same thing. Friends have two living under their garden shed, and they come out around dusk & waddle across their backyard. Names are Bruce & Oliver. Yes, we name our wildlife.

I live on the Deleware River in NJ and we have a 2bald eagles that lay eggs and nest in a tree by my house. My daughter loves to go down and watch them. They are majestic

I've not seen a coyote here but our neighbors have lost chickens to them and one of our neighbors sees them "romping" in her front yard in the early morning hours. I have heard them howling in the evenings. We have a small herd of deer that stop by every; morning on their way to the creek. And my husband had his own caddy shack kind of summer a few years ago where the groundhogs were driving him nuts burrowing all over the place and feasting on his vegetable garden. He kept a box trap set up with various groundhog "treats" and was quite successful at catching and releasing them to a remote area. Our neighbor, an older widow, was intrigued with his success and set up her own trap. She, however, caught a skunk. :) The neighborhood still enjoys that one. :)

If you do an internet search, you’ll be able to find several live cameras streaming bald Eagle nests. They should be getting the nest ready right about now and will start laying eggs in the next month or so. You can watch the daily progress, the hatching, feeding and growth of the babies. It’s fascinating. I like the south Florida cam but there is a north Florida cam and even one in my state of Georgia.

Love you guys. I grew up in Washington State, lived in Edmonton Alberta Canada for 17 years and am now in Virginia. I've seen many wild animals in my travels!

That map on opossums was out of date 30 years ago... I saw a mama possum with her babies walking in a row in North Oaks, MN (a really fancy suburb that's heavily forested and has lots of wildlife) back in the early 90s. I regularly see a few in my neighborhood I live in now. It's not just a few have ventured here - they seem to be at least somewhat established.

Bald Eagle do what is called death spiral it's a courtship they go way up about 1000ft and fall to the ground to the last minute they separate. Racoons are very smart and cute. We also have Wolfe's Moose, Black Bears, Grizzly Bears, Theory Devil, you should look at all the extinct animals from America

The smile of a possum can give anyone the chills. Possums eat tons of ticks so I leave them be around my place.