Animals Signaling You?
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Re: Animals Signaling You?
I fear people who think the animals are talking to them are also encapsulated in this cartoon.
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Re: Animals Signaling You?
“If you ever find yourself alone with a coyote, it’ll run away. Follow it. See where it leads you.”
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Re: Animals Signaling You?
After he posed there he ran off past the route, I think he was just going that way and was probably more annoyed with us that we kept going the same direction. It was a great photo op though, I hadn't been able to photograph a marmot standing before.Above_Treeline wrote: ↑Thu Dec 02, 2021 9:57 amWow. Had he seen other people going there or do you think he just happened to be going the same direction? I made friends with friendly marmot one time kinda, ran ahead of me and then posed for a photo.Chicago Transplant wrote: ↑Thu Dec 02, 2021 8:38 am Well this guy led us from the Sunlight summit block to the "hole" in the ridge we needed to get down.
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in Skyrim if you follow the foxes they lead you to secrets.
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I've had mountain lions poop on the trail I was using. Maybe they were trying to tell me that if I continued I'd be in deep sh*t???
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Re: Animals Signaling You?
+1 Also in the original Quest for Glorystephakett wrote: ↑Thu Dec 02, 2021 11:24 am in Skyrim if you follow the foxes they lead you to secrets.
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WOW!!! I'd take that kind of expert guiding. It doesn't look like you'd want to get off route there.Bigfoot wrote: ↑Thu Dec 02, 2021 10:15 am I had a mountain goat come over to where we were resting, then turn around and lead us to the next segment of the trail on Maroon Peak. For the next quarter mile it would go a couple hundred feet, stop and look back to make sure we were following, then go a bit more.
You wonder if it had seen people who got off route, seemed skeptical about this organism navigating its home area successfully, or if it was just a "lemme give you a hand" type.
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Re: Animals Signaling You?
Maybe, I do think one ran ahead of me on the trail though, possibly relating to me. Maybe it was different one that posed but at least a couple of them seemed kinda friendly. I remember one not friendly though seemed to be more screaming across the valley. Kinda like people, some make noise , some not so niceChicago Transplant wrote: ↑Thu Dec 02, 2021 11:05 amAfter he posed there he ran off past the route, I think he was just going that way and was probably more annoyed with us that we kept going the same direction. It was a great photo op though, I hadn't been able to photograph a marmot standing before.Above_Treeline wrote: ↑Thu Dec 02, 2021 9:57 amWow. Had he seen other people going there or do you think he just happened to be going the same direction? I made friends with friendly marmot one time kinda, ran ahead of me and then posed for a photo.Chicago Transplant wrote: ↑Thu Dec 02, 2021 8:38 am Well this guy led us from the Sunlight summit block to the "hole" in the ridge we needed to get down.
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Re: Animals Signaling You?
This, and I'm pretty sure the ravens see us as carcass potential. Want to guess what they're chanting as they watch you make that exposed move?
I love them anyway.
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Re: Animals Signaling You?
Maybe they were following us hoping we would drop some food scraps for themAbove_Treeline wrote: ↑Thu Dec 02, 2021 1:25 pmMaybe, I do think one ran ahead of me on the trail though, possibly relating to me. Maybe it was different one that posed but at least a couple of them seemed kinda friendly. I remember one not friendly though seemed to be more screaming across the valley. Kinda like people, some make noise , some not so niceChicago Transplant wrote: ↑Thu Dec 02, 2021 11:05 amAfter he posed there he ran off past the route, I think he was just going that way and was probably more annoyed with us that we kept going the same direction. It was a great photo op though, I hadn't been able to photograph a marmot standing before.Above_Treeline wrote: ↑Thu Dec 02, 2021 9:57 am
Wow. Had he seen other people going there or do you think he just happened to be going the same direction? I made friends with friendly marmot one time kinda, ran ahead of me and then posed for a photo.
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Re: Animals Signaling You?
my neighbor's Black Lab sometimes tells me to...... do things.
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Re: Animals Signaling You?
Tis the season at Red Rocks CC.....telling us, uh, something.