What if you lived in Australia?

[Estreeter]

Originally Posted by trailmaster

With so many strange creatures running all over the place in Australia,

Nothing strange about our wildlife, in fact humans stole ideas from our wildlife

[trailmaster]

All the animals in Australia are weird. Roos, quokkas, Tasmanian devils, others. There is nothing like that in America. Here we have just typical critters that exist in Europe and most other places. Bears, wolves, coyote, bison, buffalo, mountain lion, prairie dogs, woodchucks, otters, badgers, boars, etc. Thousands of animals that you don't have.

[SanteeFats]

Originally Posted by trailmaster

All the animals in Australia are weird. Roos, quokkas, Tasmanian devils, others. There is nothing like that in America. Here we have just typical critters that exist in Europe and most other places. Bears, wolves, coyote, bison, buffalo, mountain lion, prairie dogs, woodchucks, otters, badgers, boars, etc. Thousands of animals that you don't have.

Jealous???

[trailmaster]

Originally Posted by SanteeFats

Jealous???

Who are you calling jealous. I am not jealous of Australia. Every day that I go outside of my apartment I see the most common above ground animal, a squirrel. There is a family of gray squirrels that live in a cottonwood tree near my building. There are hundreds of squirrels in all city parks. I have also seen rabbits, ground squirrels ( often called chipmunks ), and so many birds and crows.

[Sir Honkers]

Originally Posted by trailmaster

Who are you calling jealous. I am not jealous of Australia. Every day that I go outside of my apartment I see the most common above ground animal, a squirrel. There is a family of gray squirrels that live in a cottonwood tree near my building. There are hundreds of squirrels in all city parks. I have also seen rabbits, ground squirrels ( often called chipmunks ), and so many birds and crows.

Yeah, I recall walking through parks in England, squirrels everywhere. You might occasionally see a possum in a tree here, but mostly it's birds. Our neighbours have got a pear tree in their yard and now and again we see a fruitbat in it. Also some kind of owl comes and sits on the garden sculpture my missus bought...scares the bejesus out of the cat. A couple of warm nights ago, it was having a sleep on the deck when it wakes up, stands up, stretches, sees the owl and streaks in through the pet door without it's paws touching the deck. Pissed myself laughing.

[bloke57]

Originally Posted by loosegoose

You might occasionally see a possum in a tree here, but mostly it's birds.

My impression of the birds of Australia (acquired admittedly over only a couple of visits) is that every darned one of them goes "sqwark!" or "raaaahkkk!"

I prefer the cheerful twitter and chirrup of our English birdsong...

[Estreeter]

Originally Posted by trailmaster

All the animals in Australia are weird.

Not to us they're not

Some might ask Aussies to explain a platypus

But what about this American critter

[trailmaster]

The Mr.Big story has come to a sad end. Construction crews were putting up temporary housing for the 500 men coming to build his future mansion. Mr.Big was overseeing some of the construction and there was an accident and Mr.Big was killed. When his will was opened it as reported he left his estate worth in excess of 200 billion dollars to the people of Australia!

[trailmaster]

Originally Posted by Estreeter

Not to us they're not

Some might ask Aussies to explain a platypus

But what about this American critter

That's an armadillo common to South America, Central America, and the Southwestern U.S. It evolved from armor plated dinosaurs.

[Estreeter]

Originally Posted by trailmaster

That's an armadillo common to South America, Central America, and the Southwestern U.S. It evolved from armor plated dinosaurs.

See, I did see an armadillo once when I was in the US many years ago, I thought it looked a little strange, but it's only as strange as every other animal one ain't used to seeing.

Hmm, just had a thought, cross breeding a platypus with an armadillo