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[zesty_pinto]

Have another comic from Bird and Moon's Our Wild City.


Never tangled with a cottonmouth, but I have with timber rattlers. I almost stepped on one and only realized it after the fact. That was the only time I seen one even try thinking of attacking me since I was stuck in the rain and was seeking cover a few feet away under a table umbrella.


Did lead to this neat photo, though!

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[iwouldbegood]

I checked the link to livingalongsidewildlife.com and I think such websites/projects are so important! We had a series of billboard info points set up across the city recently to make people more aware and respectful towards wildlife - mostly foxes, weasels, hedgehogs, squirrels. The loss of habitat is such a disheartening fact and it's only getting worse :(

[zesty_pinto]

Too true. On the bright side, some animals adapt too, thankfully. For example, when I lived in NJ alongside a landfilled residential community, yellow crown night herons ended up adapting by setting up nests in the atriums there instead of in the tall grass that once occupied the wetlands this place now covered. It was nice to see (although most of the residents there did not care because nature is boring to them, I guess).

[iwouldbegood]

Awww that's encouraging and great to hear! :)

I've seen different efforts even in a big city to help animals adapt and have a higher quality of life - info about what hedgehogs eat, feeding birds, planting flowers that bees are attracted to. I think general awareness is one the most important things. You don't have to actively help if you don't want to, just leave wildlife be.