Nature continues to grace us with its wonder and beauty
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Here in Florida we don’t have Big Foot or Yeti or Sasquatch we have swamp creatures and I got lucky one day and was able to snap a photo:
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Wow! I’ve not seen one one the ground like that!
Nice catch! (I’ve only seen them hiding in the trees)
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That’s awesome.
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I encountered the dead carcass of either a Sasquatch or a Yeti today on the beach. If it is a yeti, it’s probably invasive.
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That seems to be a Yeti. Due to melting snowcaps, they are slowly being forced to leave their frosty homes. It is under the ‘I’ category in the IUCN red list.
‘I’ stands for imaginary.
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Didn’t see him creeping around the last time we were there, but I also didn’t have any trail rations with chocolate chips.
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@GothHobbit - photo was 2018. I haven’t lived in Colorado for 6 1/2 years so I’m not sure if Barr Lake still does hay bail characters or not but I also have photos of an Angry Bird and a Bald Eagle from there.
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Another mostly elusive creature (Flying Pig) I happened to get lucky and not just see but photographed in the Fall of 2021 somewhere in rural Florida.
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Ahh, yes. The flying pig. A rare subspecies of the domestic pig, this majestic creature is native to the rocky mountains, where it lives in large herds of up to 20 members. It’s primarily feeds on lichens and moss, which it collects using it’s large snout. It acts like a vaccum, sucking up lichens from the snow. It’s large wings are not capable of long range flight, but are instead used to navigate the mountain’s rough terrain. It travels once every year from the cold peaks where it lives down to the ground, to breed. During this time period, it develops bright yellow spots (as seen in your photo). Unfortunately due to climate change, this species is now a rare sight. Great job at finding and photographing one!
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Yes, I am a fan of speculative biology and evolution. How did you know?
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Me too!
What do you think the yellow spots are for?
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You would have loved this thread: Describe an imaginary yet ecologically acceptable new species - Nature Talk - iNaturalist Community Forum
And likely this one, too: Is reversed bipedalism plausible? - Nature Talk - iNaturalist Community Forum
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Probably to attract mates or maybe ward of predators. Idk for sure, not many studies have been conducted on this species!
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Those threads are awesome! How have I never heard of these before?
Because I saw the Pig in Florida your description needs to include a extremely rare sighting message of the creature from the Rky. Mtns. being in seen in Florida. Perhaps it followed me to Florida as I use to live in Colorado.
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Great news!
Now I will have a promotion and more attention from the missus and those wonderful thing they said will happen when pigs fly!
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I think that is the Alaskan subspecies. Not sure what the scientific name is, though.
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