Something is Wrong
By Jo Ann
@akalinus (43366)
United States
April 10, 2020 10:53am CST
Yesterday, I saw a little turtle on the road. I wrote a post about it.
It got me thinking about the tortoises that live around here. They scoop out burrows in the ground and feed various plants and berries.
I have not seen many in the past couple of years. The bunnies have disappeared. The Sandhill Cranes don't visit us anymore. They used to arrive a couple of times a year. The curlews and ibises don't fly in here much either.
Someone said that there aren't snakes here anymore. She is right. We had rattlesnakes, coral snakes, and a variety of others that we had to watch out for. Now they are all gone.
I don't miss them but it is just another indication that something is wrong. What do you think is happening around here. Where are our animal kingdom friends? How is the wildlife in your part of the world?
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@Butterfingers (66583)
• India
10 Apr 20
Due to lockdown there were news when peacock, deer and other animals were seen at busy places so nature is healing itself
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@ElusiveButterfly (45940)
• United States
10 Apr 20
The only thing I am aware of is the bat population is dwindling due to a disease that spread and killed quite a few.
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@ElusiveButterfly (45940)
• United States
19 Apr 20
@akalinus I hope so too. Still don't see as many as we did about 10 years ago. We would go fishing at night and they would come out in numbers to eat the skeeters. I would get a little freaked because they were so close. Now I long to see them again.
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@akalinus (43366)
• United States
20 Apr 20
@ElusiveButterfly I want them around to eat 'skeeters.' It is miserable being outside when those buzzers are around. They carry diseases too. I hope they don't make the bats sick.
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@Shivram59 (36506)
• India
2 May 20
@akalinus Our country has been completely locked down for last 40 days. Long lockdown has created many troubles for us,.But it has also a very positive effect on our atmosphere.Due to a drastic fall in air and water pollution wild birds and animals have started entering the urban areas.The other day I saw a group of monkeys piercing atop on a temple.A fox was seen in my friend's backyard.And in a metro city in western India a panther was captured in CCTV .
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@akalinus (43366)
• United States
3 May 20
@Shivram59 I think I read that there were bands of monkeys running around in India in places they never had monkeys before.
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@Shivram59 (36506)
• India
2 May 20
@akalinus The credit goes to lockdown.Mother Nature is breathing easy.Just 10 minutes back a friend called me from Noida - a metro city and a flourishing industrial hub.He told me that he saw a group of deer running along the streets.Here I saw many wild parrots landing on the branches of the "neem" tree in front of my house.
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@much2say (56114)
• Los Angeles, California
10 Apr 20
When I was a kid, there were hairy caterpillars, frogs (or were they toads), and some other critters around. My parents still live in the same house and we are relatively in the same area - but these critters are all gone. It's not as rural as it was years ago . . . people have definitely invaded nature's space . . . and yah, maybe they have all left knowing something we don't (yet).
@moffittjc (121731)
• Gainesville, Florida
21 Apr 20
Is there some kind of toxic waste dump near where you live? haha
I'm not that far from you, and we are having just the opposite effect. We're seeing more wildlife than ever before. Record numbers of alligators, snakes, birds, deer, and even bear now too. Maybe they all left you and came here to Gainesville!
@akalinus (43366)
• United States
21 Apr 20
@moffittjc I don't know. I live in a park. We used to have an orange grove on one side of the park but some kind of blight wiped it out. I don't see the racehorses grazing any more. I seldom hear the mooing cows or the braying donkey. I don't hear the weird noises that the Sandhill cranes make. Maybe I need a hearing test or something.
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@moffittjc (121731)
• Gainesville, Florida
21 Apr 20
@akalinus Is development and growth destroying animal habitat where you live? That could be one possibility.