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In your country, what "common" animals are tourists most excited to see? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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It has always amused me that the tourists to the US that I’ve spoken to are often very excited to see raccoons, and disappointed if they don’t see them before they leave.

Some others I’ve noticed on the east coast of the US are blue jays and cardinals. Boy, do people get excited about those if they’ve never seen them before! Very pretty birds of course, just very easy to get used to and see as uninteresting as well.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 7 months ago (6 children)

Back when I worked at Disney, a subset of the Asian guests would get excited and take pictures of squirrels. Are there parts of Asia that don't have many squirrels?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 7 months ago

Japan doesn't generally have squirrels like in the US. I took my wife to DC and we spent a solid 10+ minutes taking photos and videos of squirrels around the mall.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

i’m from australia and i’m always excited to see squirrels… they don’t exist here at all

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

I have some friends in Australia and I always send them pictures of squirrels when I see them. Got TONS where I live.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

I felt the opposite when we visited Brazil, they had these little monkeys everywhere like squirrels here but they didn't know what a squirrel was haha, basically they had squirrels with monkey faces instead

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Squirrels are not native in most of Asia.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

We have squirrels in my country but I've never seen one in person to be frank. If you've lived in a heavily populated area your entire life then it's not uncommon you'd be surprised to see common wildlife out and about

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Squirrels are extremely common in (most of?) the US, even in cities. There's an albino one that lives in my neighborhood, that one was interesting enough to stop and take a picture of.