Wild Animals I have seen

Since we left Vermont we have been seeing wild animals all over national parks, national monuments and state parks.

Some of the parks I have been to are Yellowstone, Grand Teton, Devil’s Tower, Rocky Mountain National Park and Jewel Cave. And in all of these parks I have become a Junior Ranger – but let’s not get off the subject.

Back to wild animals.

The first wild animal I saw was a very nice one and definitely one of my favorites. So nice in fact that I spent my own money to get a stuffed one. I bought it at the Rocky Mountain National Park gift shop. Here are some hints to what it is: it bugles, its mating season is about now, the mating season ends in mid-October, the babies come in the spring. The antlers have velvet on them at first. The men have lots of females in their harems.

Can you guess what it is?


If you guessed Elk you were right. If you guessed anything else, you were wrong.

Next I saw a coyote in Rocky Mountain National Park. The coyote was a good coyote. I saw him but he didn’t see me – luckily. It was walking in the prairie. It was stalking it’s prey. I don’t know what exactly it was stalking – it could have been a mouse or something. But it was stalking the prey alright.
He was yellowish in color and he was licking his lips and his blue tongue was very long. Well, it wasn’t really blue I was just saying that for fun. But its tongue did reach past its nose. But then quickly I saw its tongue lash out and then it was chewing something.

In South Dakota at Badlands National Park we saw Prairie Dogs – many, many, many of them. They were really cute popping in and out of their houses squiring along. But unfortunately I was in a very bad mood because my parents were making us listen to cowboy music that was playing on the radio. Every Sunday from 1 – 2 PM is the Cowboy Hour in South Dakota.

Cowboy music is the worse kind of music on earth. I don’t like it because the music is really weird -- the singers sing about sad depressing things. One song was about a man’s dog named Shep. Shep was an old and blind dog and the man had to shoot him. But he couldn’t because he loved Shep too much.

Another one was about a constipated cowboy who finally went to an outhouse to go potty. His friends decided to play a trick on him and have a bull run him over in the outhouse. And it worked. The cowboy finally pooped and the bull ran over the outhouse.

Oops I am off the subject of wild animals again.

We saw lots and lots in bison. They are like buffalo but they are not buffalo. We saw them at Yellowstone National Park. Some of them were cute, some were ugly. Some were stinky, some were clean. Kind of like people.

The average bison weighs 2500 pounds. That is about 2450 pounds more than me.

And now I am sorry to say that it is time to finish up with chipmunks.

Chipmunks are sometimes wild and sometimes they can be pets. There was once a chipmunk that pet me – or I pet him – but who cares. I was walking out of the RV to get something for my dad when a chipmunk came bounding towards me. It curled up next to my leg and I stroked it and it fell asleep. I had to wake him when I remembered I needed to get something for my dad.

Seeing all this wildlife has made me think we all need to help animals because if we help animals they will help us.

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