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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] 137 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Definitely kangaroos. But they have bad luck as I live in Austria and not Australia.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Austria!? Well then, G’day mate! Let’s put another shrimp on the barbie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYZ6_n7Mpb0

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Haha, never watched the movie but I might have to now. But she rounds rather Slavic. Here my favorite example of Austrian English!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Manm both Dumb and Dumber movies are great imo

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I was so amazed at how common they were. I spent a year in Australia and probably saw more kangaroos day by day than I see all wild animals combined day by day here in the UK (excluding birds).

Hell I grew up in North Wales and may have seen as many kangaroos day by day as I saw sheep here, and that's saying something.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

But the kangaroos run away when you try to sneak up behind them