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In your country, what "common" animals are tourists most excited to see? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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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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[-] constantokra@lemmy.one 1 points 5 months ago

I'm always amazed at tourists looking at gators at the zoo. Whatever zoo you're at there's probably a river or lake full of them within a couple miles.

I saw some tourists a while back who thought they were looking at a whole group of albino gators, but they were just covered in bird crap. I had to tell them.

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