Posted on 04/18/2020 8:05:12 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
Afoot and light-hearted, they’re taking to the open road.
Amid the global lockdowns to curb the spread of the coronavirus, striking images taken in South Africa’s popular Kruger National Park — which has remained shut since March 25 — show a pride of some 15 lions napping in the middle of an empty paved road.
CNN reports that on any typical day, this area would be packed with tourists on safari excursions. But that doesn’t mean that the travelers would get to experience this sight.
“This lion pride are usually resident on Kempiana Contractual Park, an area Kruger tourists do not see,” the park tweeted Wednesday. “This afternoon they were lying on the tar road just outside of Orpen Rest Camp.”
That isn’t the only atypical sight.
“Lying on the road during the daytime is unusual because under normal circumstances there would be traffic and that pushes them into the bush,” Kruger spokesman Isaac Phaahla tells CNN. “They just occupy places they would normally shun when there are tourists … People should remember that [Kruger] is still a largely wild area and in the absence of humans, wildlife is more active.”
In the north of Wales, herds of wild mountain goats have claimed the empty streets of Llandudno as their own. Known as the Great Orme Kashmiri goats, they typically live on a nearby hill that looks over the town, rarely heading into it. 
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Some few years ago coyotes were turning up on Long Island, NY. No one could figure out how they were getting out there.
ELLEN: Sparky, wild animal!
CLARK: I know.
ELLEN: No, wild animal.
CLARK: I’m gonna’ go for it, honey!
ELLEN: Get off!
Here in The Alamo City there are HUNDREDS of Whitetail Deer wandering about in the “near downtown” neighborhoods day & night.
(I went to look at an antique car in a subdivision about 5-6 miles from “downtown” SA last Tuesday afternoon & while I was waiting for about 15 minutes (for the car’s owner to get home from the grocery store), I counted 73 deer who were busily eating the human resident’s expensive landscaping.)
We also have many coyotes, raccoons, possums, bobcats & other “wildlife” all over Bexar County.
Yours, TMN78247
We live in North Idaho and are absolutely overrun by deer. The neighbors called Fish and Wildlife a few years back and they were going to thin the herd, but the people who sold us the house said “no way - they are so cute.” Other neighbors actually feed them in the winter! I often count 12 to 15 on our lawn headed to the smorgasbord along our street.
Don’t get me started on the turkeys!
At least the eagles and osprey are still nice, but I know in a lot of places the huge numbers of eagle are hated.
For over 3 years we had a HUGE WT buck that “camped out” in our backyard, in Camp County. = I counted his points year before last & he had 26!!
Yours, TMN78247
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