The Feral Test

[gemfyre]

I unexpectedly got to do Shorebird Disturbance Monitoring today. Which meant 4 hours alone watching shorebirds, which is great seeing as I'm feeling particularly anti-social lately. During my time there I wrote a list of interesting, somewhat feral experiences I've had while up here (some I had had before, some I had not), and I was wondering who else has done the same. So I present the following poll.

[Poll #549064]

Comments

[shewholaughs.livejournal.com]

We get gecko's in our house all the time at home - although I don't think any of them have got stuck in any electrical equipment yet.

[kmlahti.livejournal.com]

"Been shat on by a bird"

LOL! Daily!


Euthanizing animals- I hope that counted birds as well. I've had to do a few, unfortunately. It still hurts though it's been long.

[tikibirds.livejournal.com]

i dont think there ARE any amphibans/reptiles in alaska...so no gekos in my printer..i'll trade ya a polar bear for a gecko though :P


once at the bronx zoo in NYC a seagukllk shit on my grandpa's head though. I though it was funny (i was like 6 or 7 at the time)

[firvulag.livejournal.com]

I'll take that polar bear, how do you want the gecko sent?

[pooxs.livejournal.com]

what is 'dabbled in a dead animal'? or do i not want to know?

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

Done a dissection or closely inspected roadkill, stuff like that.

[pinkjubie.livejournal.com]

I didn't know what that meant either... lol, not being from Austrailia I found some other words were kinda... huh?... to me too :P

[blue-cat.livejournal.com]

hmm, most of mine are based around doing a 3 year Biology degree, plus rescuing small things (or not so small things) from cats.

and your marsupial one is biased! I am now in the UK, and have been bitten by yellow necked field mice, shrews, had a handfull of baby mice fall out of a longman's trap into my plastic bag (and being bitten by mom, who subsequently killed all babies)...

sigh. Good days (once they are over).

[firvulag.livejournal.com]

not sure that I've actually answered all the ones i have done, but at least all the ones i can remember.

we had a spider live (and eventually die) in the water level indicator of one of the kettles at my parents place.
I knocked a roo down with my car once, but it hopped off, so i have no idea if it was injured. and I've probably found injured animals before also.
does killing a bird while driving count as euthenasing... or wild pests on a farm?
and i've probably been through knee deep mud at some time, especially when i used to cycle out onto the mudpan near minlaton.
I've also helped slaughter and butcher a sheep or 2 on a farm, would that count as 'dabbling' in a dead animal?

*cuddles*

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

I remember that spider! Poor thing.

As for the lappy, it runs XP I'm pretty sure. Windows essentially doesn't like the drivers because they aren't digitally signed.

[littlelemming3.livejournal.com]

I lied slightly about the geckos - I stayed in a place in Indonesia that had them everywhere inside and out, but we didn't have a printer there. *looks sheepish*

And I didn't realize "dabbling in a dead animal" could refer to dissection, because I've definitely done that too.

Also, what is "bush bashing?" Besides insulting the US president? ; )

[stawberi.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, where in Indonesia? They're everywhere where I am.

[littlelemming3.livejournal.com]

I went to Bali for a week when I was 10 years old - it was FANTASTIC!

Where are you? : )

[stawberi.livejournal.com]

Jogjakarta. I study here, been here six months so far.

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

Bush bashing is walking directly through the bush where there is no path.

[miwasatoshi.livejournal.com]

The terminology may be slightly different, and we don't get wild marsupials out here other than Virginia Opossum (which I've never seen in Arizona) but I have done a lot of this.

My "Shat On By" List

Larus occidentalis / Western Gull
Cyanocitta stelleri / Steller's Jay
Passer domesticus / House Sparrow

[stawberi.livejournal.com]

I don't have a printer, so a "no" to the gecko question.