Date: 2014-04-08 01:53 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] silverjackal
I also wondered why the photographer was so concerned about keeping his hat on.

To shield his eyes from making direct contact with the elk. In that he was correct, as it really could have provoked an aggressive reaction. While he was avoiding eye contact he also should have refrained from pointing that giant black mechanical eye (camera) at the elk. Cameras are mostly hostile, staring eyes to animals who haven't been carefully habituated to them.

Date: 2014-04-08 01:58 am (UTC)
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Oh that makes sense! Pretty much the only thing he did that makes sense.

Date: 2014-04-08 02:01 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] silverjackal
When he was shooting up at an acute angle at the elk standing over him I almost expected the animal to slam its' head down and gore him in the torso, aiming for the camera. Now wouldn't *that* have made for interesting video! Man disemboweled by elk!

Date: 2014-04-08 02:31 am (UTC)
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Yes. Accompanied by much weeping and wailing in the press about DANGEROUS WILDLIFE, and SOMETHING MUST BE DONE ABOUT THE AGGRESSIVE ANIMALS.

Date: 2014-04-08 02:51 am (UTC)
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Oh gods! Can no one save that poor woman? Get it *off* her! Right now! D:



Hahahaha. Oh dear. Coyotes with mange, and now a raccoon with mange. Curiously most of these "Chupacabra" reports seem to come from Texas. Do you have any insight as to why your countrymen (and women) are so determined to make a mythical beast out of ordinary wildlife?

Date: 2014-04-08 03:03 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] silverjackal
I knew you'd get a kick out of that. :D

The raccoon is amusing, the hair terrifying. Only think the damage she has done to the ozone layer over the course of her life...

Oh, and also the news services aid and abet this nonsense by playing up the "chupacabra" angle.

It never ceases to baffle me because one would think that people had never seen a coyote or a raccoon before, and that is patently not so. Especially in these days of television and the internet but I suppose people are people and this is just something they love to play at.

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