For me: Grizzly Bears, Flocks of Bald Eagles, Lynx and Alligator Snapping Turtles.

How about you? Any safari stories?

Leopard, on safari in Kenya, a beautiful animal

Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep, Mule Deer and Moose in Alberta. White Elk, Fallow and Axis Deer, Blackbuck Antelope, Bobcat, Coyote, Armadillo and Jackrabbit in Texas. Bald Eagle and Alligators in Florida.

Five

A Puma walking in California

An elephant tromping through a treed area here in Thailand...

An oak type tree in Alaska overloaded by over 30 bald Eagles watching the water along the shoreline....

Being on a boat astride 3 killer whales heading in the same direction swimming along side...

Kangaroo's hopping around a golf course in Australia.....Like deer do in the US....

A Jaguar in the Pantanal, Brazil. A dead hippo while bungee jumping off Victoria Falls Bridge. He swam to close to the brink and was washed over.

In TH ... Besides birds (way too many to list), a huge monitor lizard, cobra, kraits & vipers.

Elsewhere, scuba diving, seen and photographed plenty of sharks, schooling baracudas, lionfish, moray eels, eagle rays, huge groupers and bunch of macro critters, seahorses, shrimp & corals.

https://goo.gl/photos/AwRWLxRMuKwVbphJ8

One snap of birds I did get, kind of rare and only snap of, in my part of TH, a couple Lesser Frigatebirds, headed out to an island. Rarely photographed in Thailand.

The very few verified sightings of in TH ...

Sharing waves with dolphins while surfing in Australia. No other animal gets close to being that cool 😎

🐬 🏄 🐬

This pretty boy…..Long live the King - we watched each other for a few minutes, then he lowered and went on his way

He was/is Magnificent. Peace

A tiger shark lurking neath me and my board while waiting for the next wave at Banyans.

Dolphins following the boat I was on in beautiful Greece.

A reef shark came downstream around a Pinnacle, and charged me, for then braking off on my nose tip, didn't manage to do much else than stay calm, stopped breathing while watching the slow motion movie in my head before it speeded up and was gone. 1000 thoughts and scenarios overloaded my brain a fraction of seconds.

That was a rush, and made me feel very much alive. When your hearth stops, you know your primal Instincts taking over.

Dived with sea snakes and sharks many times, but this stands out. As well when freediving at the Omani coastline desert was in the middle of a large battery of barracudas coming as a big shadow above me. That was also intense.

Loves Golden Eagles soaring in the skies

Except from normal wild life is also cool to experience. Haven't met a wild elephant yet, but been close by both by sounds and smell.

Have unfortunate not been close to whales yet, only by distance, and not seen whale shark yet either.

I could had gone on tourist boats, but I refrain from disturbing nature by these commercial trips, so my bad for feeling that way, but we should impact the nature as little as possible.

On 1/17/2026 at 10:28 AM, pgrahmm said:

An oak type tree in Alaska overloaded by over 30 bald Eagles watching the water along the shoreline....

Ive seen as many as 100 plus on the Turnagain Arm Flats when the Hooligan were running...

In the Falkland Islands 5 different species of Penguins, Walrus, seals and elephant seals and the Commersons dolphin otherwise known as the “Panda” dolphin on account of it being black and white in colour. Sadly missed on out seeing the killer whales.

Nothing beats some wild beaver. 😆

16 hours ago, blaze master said:

Nothing beats some wild beaver. 😆

Been waiting for that.

Sometimes, it's the small animals that excite.

I found a caecilian as I was walking down a road in Laos.

Unfortunately one section was rather flat, since a motorcyclist had run over it.... but still a very interesting (for me) sighting.

10 points for the first person to explain what a caecilian is (without Googling it).

Cassowary

A poodle

In Thailand:

April 4th 1998 while building the Yadana 42" natural gas pipeline from Burma to Ratchaburi power plant.

Came to work and the night watchman was all agitated, we had to drive up an extremely steep hill everyday to access this area.

4x4 with tire chains on type of steep hill.

Elephant was skittish and we watched him wander around for about 6 hours untill he stepped from the pipe onto the bank and disappeared

When I lived on the mountain top in the Blue Ridge Mountains, a bear would pop out in the spring and we’d see him a few times. We had an airhorn on both porches in case we needed to scare him away.

We also had a mass of deer that would congregate near an apple tree, not far from our porch and we would sit quietly and watch them eat the apples that had fallen on the ground.

In terms of travel, the Madagascar Lemurs are a highlight. They are painstaking with limiting the tours, and so they did seem genuinely wild.

On 1/29/2026 at 5:55 AM, Prubangboy said:

When I lived on the mountain top in the Blue Ridge Mountains, a bear would pop out in the spring and we’d see him a few times. We had an airhorn on both porches in case we needed to scare him away.

We also had a mass of deer that would congregate near an apple tree, not far from our porch and we would sit quietly and watch them eat the apples that had fallen on the ground.

In terms of travel, the Madagascar Lemurs are a highlight. They are painstaking with limiting the tours, and so they did seem genuinely wild.

The largest bunch of lemurs outside Madagascar is at the Duke lemurs center in North Carolina. It's hard to get in but I hear it's well worth it

Large saltwater crocodile approaching the 12 foot boat I was fishing from. Baby dolphin jumping out of the water between two adult dolphins.

Watching mantra rays 'flying' out of the water at sunset.

Ladyboy in soi Nana in full mating plumage.

Moose at Yellowstone.

An albino eastern squirrel (very rare) at my childhood home.

11 minutes ago, emptypockets said:

Ladyboy in soi Nana in full mating plumage.

Clearly not an endangered species in Thailand, but probably headed for extinction in the USA

On 1/27/2026 at 8:16 PM, Gottfrid said:

A poodle

Can I change to weird human animal roaming the streets of Pattaya and Phuket.

I saw a badger once, the official animal of my home state but I've only seen one once since they're nocturnal. I also saw a wolverine when i was a kid, I think they're more rare.

Polar bear, grizzle bears, 100+ bald eagles, a sounder of wild boars, cobras, pythons, wolfs, lynx, bowhead whales,

13 hours ago, Real Name Hidden said:

I also saw a wolverine when i was a kid, I think they're more rare.

Totally cool!

An elephant swimming across the Zambezi, I did not realise they could swim.

53 minutes ago, saintdomingo said:

An elephant swimming across the Zambezi, I did not realise they could swim.

They have built in snorkels