Monday, 08 June 2009
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Worldwide Wildlife
I love animals. In fact, I think I love animals more than I love people, food, wine, or maybe (gasp) traveling. The best experience would be a trip that incorporates all of my favorite things, including close encounters with the local wildlife.
When I traveled to Australia, I had a chance to get very close to the local wildlife. I was participating in a volunteer project, and one of our guides found an abandoned dingo pup. He allowed our group to adopt him for the afternoon. We took the pup, aptly named Bingo (get it? Bingo the Dingo? corny, I know), home to our campsite and gave him a bath. He was teeming with fleas. Our guide picked him up that night and the next day, dropped him off next to a dead cow in the hopes that another pack of dingoes would adopt him. Very cool close encounter. In Australia, we also went to a zoo and had an opportunity to feed kangaroos and snuggle up next to a koala. This experience was eye-opening. I learned so much about both of these animals. Did you know that both kangaroos and koalas are actually a huge problem in Australia? They are because of overpopulation. Kangaroos run through and ruin farmer's fields, and koalas are actually huge stoners, eating eucalyptus leaves all day and falling out of trees.
I want to go to Africa next to see a lion. I would love to do another volunteer trip there and work on a wildlife reserve.
Would the local wildlife influence your choice of travel destination? What are some of the local wildlife that you have encountered? Did you learn anything new about these animals?
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Comments (8)
HAHA about koalas! I also heard that they stink!
Last year we went to Bali and we went to a wildlife reserve and we got to see tons of sea turtles, some bats, chickens, porcupines, sea eagles, and more! And every time I go to HK I make sure to visit the Edward Youde Aviary... although, one trip I had to skip it due to the bird flu scare
When I lived in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia the wildlife often came indoors.
Monkeys would throw fruit at the kids, a monitor lizard stood on its back legs and ate the curry from the stove and several times we called the fire department to get snakes and cobras from the yard...
Love wildlife but from a distance sometimes.
i like wildlife.=). sometimes i will go to singapore nature reserves to look at them. the recent trip i went and saw monitor lizards, snakes and shellfishes.
i also been to Korea to see the offsprings from a lion and and tiger =).
what oraganization are you part of? how did you get into this? i recently graduated high school and i want to be part of this!
Me too. As a matter of fact I had been a volunteer of Wildlife animals organization. I leads the wild animals back to where they should belong. Actually we had an activity that we had a fund raise and supported the so called habitual animals, in where we are responsible for the habitual of the animals. God gave us these strength and the activity was successful.
I have never seen a koala bear!
Africa become the number one spot for volunteer programs because of wild life sanctuary. I bet you enjoy being a wild life volunteer in Africa.
@fefe_ish_weird@xanga - This was through International Student Volunteers