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Animals you would like to see in your lifetime

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PINETREE

10/08/2012 09:18AM

One of the few for me not seen anywhere is the Lynx. Also a caribou that wanders thru every 10 years or so. Been out west and seen the grizzly,mountain lion and bighorn sheep that were on my list.
Down south I would love a canoe ride along side a manatee.

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ozarkpaddler

10/08/2012 09:53AM

Would love to see a caribou in the wild. What's that place up the shore of Lake Superior, the Slate Islands? Have read that is a good place to see Woodland Caribou.

Got to see a grizzly from a few hundred yards away years ago. Would love to see one again....from a distance!

"Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry." Mark Twain

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OneMatch

10/08/2012 10:50AM

I noticed that Ho Ho has been seeing a lynx around his Ely home recently. That would be one for me,too.

I paddled the Loxahatchie River outside of Ft Lauderdale about 10 yrs ago and saw a few alligator warning signs, but never saw one. Looked for manatees when we cruised out into the ocean, but unfortunately didn't see one. One of those is on my list, too.

We all have to believe in something. I believe I'll go paddle.

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Longpaddler

10/08/2012 11:19AM

Polar Bear....from a distance

..there is nothing- absolute nothing- half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats - Wind in the Willows

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MadMoose

10/08/2012 11:38AM

Blue whale, killer whale and a great white shark would be cool too. I got to see Humpbacks in Hawaii and those guys are amazing.

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Merlin

10/08/2012 11:42AM

Wolverine

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mooseplums

10/08/2012 11:58AM

A Pod of Killer Whales..hands down

"I am haunted by waters"~Norman Maclean "A River Runs Through It"

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PINETREE

10/08/2012 12:03PM

quote mooseplums: "A Pod of Killer Whales..hands down"

That would be hard to beat,with a background of glaciers along the coast.

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Rich11

10/08/2012 12:28PM

Great white shark, grizzly, humpback whale and big foot!

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HowardSprague

10/08/2012 12:39PM

Humpback whale

White shark - from a cage

Have seen a lot of Orcas from a boat - about 80 in one day - but seeing them from the cockpit of a kayak would be most incredible.

"Enjoy every sandwich"

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yellowcanoe

10/08/2012 01:21PM

Wolverine and polar bear in the wild.

Slate Islands are a good place to see woodland caribou but they are so accustomed to people they are hardly elusive.

I prefer to try and find a truly wild one in Wabakimi or Woodland Caribou. There are also many in Newfoundland. I have seen five or six in these areas

I would also like to see a barren ground caribou migration.

Here is a griz from about 150 feet. I was in my truck. There were alot of people around..some of them actually following the bear on foot..Big no no this bear was major stressed

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Freddy

10/08/2012 01:31PM

I want to see them all but in terms of North America we have yet to see a mountain lion although they have probably seen us.

"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul" John Muir

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Papinator

10/08/2012 01:33PM

Turdy point buck :)

Or some wild ponies. Real ones.

"20 years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the things that you did." --Mark Twain

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gutmon

10/08/2012 02:33PM

Ivory billed woodpecker.

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MrBreeze

10/08/2012 02:37PM

quote Papinator: "Turdy point buck :)

Or some wild ponies. Real ones."

Come on by my place if you want to see wild ponies. They come through my yard every couple of days. Had to stop on the highway Friday afternoon while they crossed over. Beautiful animals.

A wild Gorilla, that is the one on my list.

I wish I were, I wish I might, I wish I was in the BWCA tonite!

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Basspro69

10/08/2012 03:56PM

Wolverine .

" I want to know Gods thoughts , The rest are details " Albert Einstein. WWJD

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apugarcia

10/08/2012 04:36PM

Sasquatch for sure.

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nctry

10/08/2012 04:45PM

The biggest reason I would take a far north trip would be to see a Muskox. :)

Nctry

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maxxbhp

10/08/2012 05:06PM

Sorry, I have sort of a bad reputation, but I'm being serious. I read recently that "scientists" seriously believe they can clone a mammoth. If they can do it before scotch and rainy canoe trips do me in, I'd like to see that.

"...And the days I keep my gratitude higher than my expectations, .......well, I have really good days". Ray Wiley Hubbard

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kanoes

10/08/2012 05:12PM

quote nctry: "The biggest reason I would take a far north trip would be to see a Muskox. :)"

same here.

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dentondoc

10/08/2012 05:25PM

quote mooseplums: "A Pod of Killer Whales..hands down"

Even more cool when you are in a zodiac and they pass right under you. Thrilling!

Kiwi ... soon!

dd

"If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs" chances are you missed something. (Inspired by Rudyard Kipling.)

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yellowcanoe

10/08/2012 05:33PM

quote nctry: "The biggest reason I would take a far north trip would be to see a Muskox. :)"

I forgot about that one. Me too.

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Savage Voyageur

10/08/2012 05:41PM

I would like to see a Grizzly bear in the Yukon, A killer whale or a narwhal in the Arctic, Great white shark off of the Great barrier Reef. Not holding my breath on a bigfoot or a wolly mammoth.

"So many lakes, so little time." WWJD

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dprochef

10/08/2012 07:50PM

Always wanted to Kayak with Whales in Alaska along side some Icebergs.

Courage is being scared to death... but saddling up anyway....John Wayne

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PINETREE

10/08/2012 08:04PM

quote yellowcanoe: "
quote nctry: "The biggest reason I would take a far north trip would be to see a Muskox. :)"

I thought of putting that on my list,they are so different. Love their defense mode-form a circle.

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Savage Voyageur

10/08/2012 10:24PM

A honey Badger, haha

"So many lakes, so little time." WWJD

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realandrea

10/08/2012 10:53PM

The short list?

Mountain lion
Caribou, any kind
Any kind of large African mammal not fenced in a zoo
Get a close look at a truly large whale, any species
Beluga whales, once had a chance to look, nearly died of eyestrain...
Birds: Puffin, Harpy eagle

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oldgentleman

10/09/2012 06:52AM

I'd really like to see a muskox.

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mc2mens

10/09/2012 08:26PM

wolf, grizzly bear, wolverine, lynx

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mjmkjun

10/10/2012 08:52AM

platypus. and Australia, of course.

“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” Sir Isaac Newton

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BlackMagic

10/10/2012 09:06AM

A cheetah, my all time favorite animal. And in a Zoo is not going to happen for me - ever.

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PINETREE

10/10/2012 10:03AM

One truly wild polar bear on ice would be neat.

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walllee

10/10/2012 02:13PM

Musk Ox for me.

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fitgers1

10/10/2012 02:51PM

I would love to see a couple animals that once roamed freely in Minnesota. Elk and caribou.

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” Ralph Waldo Emerson...and...“Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading".

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PINETREE

10/10/2012 03:31PM

quote fitgers1: "I would love to see a couple animals that once roamed freely in Minnesota. Elk and caribou. "

The caribou thing would be awesome. Like I said about every 10 years one animal wanders down from Canada.

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boonie

10/10/2012 04:43PM

quote nctry: "The biggest reason I would take a far north trip would be to see a Muskox. :)"

+1 I thought I'd be the first to mention that one.

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fitgers1

10/10/2012 04:44PM

quote PINETREE: "
quote fitgers1: "I would love to see a couple animals that once roamed freely in Minnesota. Elk and caribou. "

The caribou thing would be awesome. Like I said about every 10 years one animal wanders down from Canada."

Let me know the next time it happens. I'll be up there in a jiffy.
I should drive up to NW MN some day to see the elk.

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removedmember1

Guest Paddler

10/10/2012 05:10PM

quote gutmon: "Ivory billed woodpecker."

Me too.

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arctic

10/10/2012 05:51PM

I've seen woodland caribou, a lynx and a wolverine on single occasions, but would like to see these rare critters again.

I've also seen a lot of muskoxen and barren-gound caribou, as well as a grizzly bear (western Canada) and two polar bears. These are treasured memories.

“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.” -Edward Abbey

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pswith5

10/10/2012 06:13PM

That ivory billed woodpecker would make my list. As well as canoeing with whales. A little baby arctic seal would be cute. Oh, how about a snowy owl!

Without the bad times, the good times wouldn't seem so good.

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jb in the wild

10/10/2012 08:52PM

Tyrannosaurus rex.

JB

You can't explain the obvious to the ignorant.

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giddyup

10/10/2012 11:10PM

Koala bear and a kangaroo

"Adversity makes for a better adventure."

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FOG51

10/11/2012 05:52AM

Herd of unicorns [saw some back in the 60's but have nearly forgotten what they looked like] FRED

Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked, the good fourtune to remember the ones do, and the eyesight to tell the differance.

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dicecupmaker

10/11/2012 05:58AM

A red-headed-double-breasted-mattress-thrasher!

Joy is a great teacher, but so is dispair. Wonder is a great teacher, but so is confusion. Hope is a great teacher, but so is disillusionment. And life is a great teacher, but so is death. To deny yourself any of those in any aspect is not experiencing life totally.

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Mort

10/11/2012 07:51AM

Muskox for me.

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h20

10/13/2012 01:55AM

A flying squirrel. (besides Rocket J.) And a timber rattler from a distance.

Buy the ticket, take the ride .Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

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Jeriatric

10/17/2012 02:20AM

About 37 years ago, I saw a grizzly from about 12 feet when it walked past me, from behind, as I stood alone admiring a distant landscape. Imagine my surprise.
I'd like to see an impala actually climbing a tree. They get up there, can't get down and die.
:-)

Someone mentioned woolly mammoth earlier. That is my hope too. A few years ago a researcher said that a mammoth clone was doable within 20 years. Maybe I'll see, at least, a picture of it.

The business of life is the acquisition of memories. In the end that's all there is. ___Mr Carson (Downton Abby)

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walleye_hunter

10/18/2012 07:24PM

I noticed a lot of folks have wolverine on their list. I was fortunate enough to see one on a hiking trip in Alaska. A while back someone on this site mentioned that a male fisher is about the toughest animal pound for pound that you will see in the BWCA. I would have to agree with that. They are 1/3 the size of a wolverine but have the same attitude. Fishers are about the only animal that hunts porcupines and they have reportedly killed lynx at times.

"Man's heart away from nature becomes hard." Standing Bear

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PINETREE

10/18/2012 08:54PM

quote walleye_hunter: "I noticed a lot of folks have wolverine on their list. I was fortunate enough to see one on a hiking trip in Alaska. A while back someone on this site mentioned that a male fisher is about the toughest animal pound for pound that you will see in the BWCA. I would have to agree with that. They are 1/3 the size of a wolverine but have the same attitude. Fishers are about the only animal that hunts porcupines and they have reportedly killed lynx at times. "

I do know Fishers have a nice set of teeth. I don"t know where they come up with there figure,but Minnesota DNR says a male fisher averages 0.5 deer per year killed. They say they get them from maybe jumping on them. I did see the results of a fisher killing a deer,you can see where they struggled for hours. I think the deer was injured before this battle started.

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yellowcanoe

10/18/2012 09:55PM

quote PINETREE: "
quote walleye_hunter: "I noticed a lot of folks have wolverine on their list. I was fortunate enough to see one on a hiking trip in Alaska. A while back someone on this site mentioned that a male fisher is about the toughest animal pound for pound that you will see in the BWCA. I would have to agree with that. They are 1/3 the size of a wolverine but have the same attitude. Fishers are about the only animal that hunts porcupines and they have reportedly killed lynx at times. "

I do know Fishers have a nice set of teeth. I don"t know where they come up with there figure,but Minnesota DNR says a male fisher averages 0.5 deer per year killed. They say they get them from maybe jumping on them. I did see the results of a fisher killing a deer,you can see where they struggled for hours. I think the deer was injured before this battle started."

I do know outdoor cats do not live long in my neck of the woods where fishers cruise my property. I can live without seeing another.

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MrBreeze

10/19/2012 02:32PM

I have all ways wanted to go to Aussie and see Koala bears and kangaroos and crocs in the wild. Oh and the Komodo dragon - oh yeah!!

I wish I were, I wish I might, I wish I was in the BWCA tonite!

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jcavenagh

10/19/2012 02:40PM

animal I want to see before I die :)

LNT - The road to success is always under construction. http://hikingillinois.blogspot.com/

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mjmkjun

10/19/2012 02:57PM

quote jcavenagh: " animal I want to see before I die :) "

Oh, my! you ain't kiddin!

“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” Sir Isaac Newton

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Spartan2

10/19/2012 03:27PM

We were in Tasmania last February and we neglected to make sure to see a Tasmanian Devil. I regret that now. You pretty much have to see them in a nature preserve, but I wish we had made the effort to schedule one of our shore excursions to include one. Since I don't ever plan to return to Tasmania, I think I missed my chance.

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jwartman59

10/20/2012 12:17AM

Wolverine, it has been a life long obsession. they don't want to be seen, i can respect that.

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OldScout48

10/21/2012 05:30PM

quote HowardSprague: "Humpback whale

White shark - from a cage

Have seen a lot of Orcas from a boat - about 80 in one day - but seeing them from the cockpit of a kayak would be most incredible.

"

Alpha Orca to the pod, "If you spit out the plastic tasting stuff the rest doesn't taste too bad."

Old Scout

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