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Animals Invade Cities As People Quarantine Themselves At Home (New Pics)
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As we've seen already, animals seem to be pouring into the city streets as people retreat to their shelters amidst the COVID-19 lockdown. And while at first it was only deer, boars, horses, and sheep taking over the civilized world, now it seems like countless others have joined the cause all around the world. And this time, even dangerous predators like bears, mountain lions, and wild pumas are prowling in the streets.
We reached out to one man who witnessed a gator casually strolling in Myrtle Beach in broad daylight to get a first-hand report of the events. "When I first saw the gator, I didn’t think it was real. I thought somebody was playing a practical joke on me," Clifford Sosis told Bored Panda. "I like to take dangerous hikes in interesting places with my dog Daisy, hikes where I might be bitten by snakes and gators," the man explained and also added that recently, his expeditions have grown fewer and fewer since the birth of his son.
Clifford is a philosophy lecturer at Coastal Carolina University who runs a website featuring autobiographical interviews with philosophers.
"On the day I took the gator video, I went to Barefoot Landing because I was trying to avoid danger! Shortly after I took this video, I was watching the gator, and a security guard, the only other person in Barefoot Landing at the time, didn’t see it and almost ran into it," Sosis revealed. "When I told him to watch his step, he was shocked! He said he thought there were no longer gators in the area." The man also added that some people on the internet have reported seeing gators in the area as well. "I’ve been living in Myrtle Beach for 6 years and I’ve never seen a gator in Barefoot Landing. Definitely not in the parking lot!" Sosis concluded.
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Harold Hill In Romford, East London
I would do nothing but put out little plates of carrots apples and other fruits and admire them from the window
Fox Sleeping On A Tree Stump In The Backyard
A Photo Of A Coyote In San Francisco Taken With A Zoom Lens From Inside The Photographer's Car
Lambs Seen Playing On Children's Playground Roundabout In Preston
A Wild Puma Was Captured In The Streets Of Santiago, Chile On March 24, 2020
A Wild Deer, From A Herd Used To Be Fed By The Local Population, Roams In Sri Lanka
Mountain Goats Spotted In The Welsh Town Of Llandudno
Dozens Of Squirrels In A Santa Monica Park
Lol since the celebrities are in lock down,tmz is now reporting on the wild life. I guess they still have to come up with click baites.
Moose Running Loose In Utena, Lithuania
Seal Rests By The Urumea River In Spain
Nilgai Running Around In The Streets Of Noida, India
A Deer Was Spotted Running Around In Chandigarh, India
That civet is not well. It shouldnt be walking around during the day and its just too slow.
A Bear Is Seen Walking Around In An Asturian Town In Full Quarantine
Wild Turkeys Spotted In West Oakland, California
The headline is all wrong. It was us who invaded their territory.
Since humans evolved on earth and are not an alien species that is not true, we are just a very successful species. Many people love to bath in the guilt but that isn't helping anybody. If you feel so guilty that you see your species (which mans yourself) as an invader get your butt up and do something for a change. You don't need to save the world you just need to change yourself then you are a good example that others can look up to, respect and follow. And that is how things are changed for the better. The thing is: it's so much easier to sit depressed of how bad things are on the couch than to stand up and change your life for something better because that requires effort. Chimps by the way act not different than humans, only difference is they didn't develop technology.
It is true that humans invaded their homes by deforestation and pollution. No other species have affected other species' well beings as much as humans have did so far. Hence we are a species who can be successful, but not successful.
I would disagree; no other animal on earth practices totalitarian agriculture or embarks on deliberate and knowing attempts to drive other species to extinction. Ants may farm aphids, but they don't destroy every insect in their territory that isn't an aphid. Lions may drive hyenas from their territory, but they don't attempt to exterminate them en masse. Humans have been living and shaping the world around us for thousands of years, but it's the advent of totalitarian agriculture that seeks to convert a diversity of biomass into a relatively small number of species. For every plant driven to extinction we have monoculture fields of soy/wheat/corn. For every wolf shot by ranchers we have hundreds of cows. Sure, maybe I'm just a "dirty hippie/commie/Libtard/cuck" but lost diversity is dangerous; it sets up a house of cards so that a single disease or pest can wipe out vast sections of life. Then what do we replace them with? We're losing a staggering amount of insects, agriculture is f
Lighter In Park Jung Yeon's Hand - have to agree with you on this one. How many millennia have people been around, and didn't totally mess up every ecosystem we were in. And we were in every ecosystem. Humans didn't start to take over until the Industrial Revolution. Before that, we pretty much lived within our environment. Humans have put everything out of BALANCE.
The two are not exclusive, you have to face what you are and what you do to your environment to truly be able to change... until you say you are good or it's someone else's fault, or that you are just a very successful specie, you'll never change. Facing yourself, being upset and depressed is the first step...
Thank you! All this species oriented racism was getting boring.
Adina, unfortunately, that's exactly what "successful" people do, and they are not willing to change.
I don't believe that MANY people feel guilty, Mathias, many people are ignorant and arrogant; if they aren't confident (because of their human superiority, or because they believe that God loves them and will always save them) they are hopeful, it's easy to sell hope. But hope without action is an excuse.
You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus.
Thank you for this comment.
No. We are an alien species dropped off on this planet as seedlings and eventually evolved into our current state. We invade and destroy every territory on earth.
Lighter In Park Jung Yeon's Hand - that is not true. When algae evolved into producing oxygen it killed about 2/3 of all life on earth in a very short time it was the biggest mass extinction the planet has ever seen and changed life on earth and earth itself like nothing that came after it. We are very, very far away from that.
Hey Lighter In Park Jung Yeon's Hand: I'd like to introduce you to the lowly beaver...
Not that long ago we lived much closer to the natural world. I'm grateful the other animals are still there, and still willing to move closer to us if it is safe for them to do so.
Amen.
We are children of mother nature too. Don't be so dramatic. Spread love, not misery.
I like your short explanation more than my long one, you're doing good with and at spreading love :)
Animals and humans have been coexisting for thousands of years. I really hate inaccurate comments such as this.
Yeah let’s all go back to where we came from?
Dad's nuts?
Good idea.
Africa?
👍
And now we know what would happen if human population suddenly greatly decreased or disappeared: 1) pollution reduced to very low levels within weeks; 2) animals reclaiming their space, also within weeks.
3) Nuclear explosions from the suddenly abandoned reactors, with no one to turn them off safely and properly.
Okay, let's agree we will turn them off first then... unless something catastrophic stops us. If we were to know we were dying out we should do all we can for any life that remains.
The only threat to avoid is a lot of people socializing without proper protection from that virus. As long as government hires people to take care of that, while also equipping them with safety suits or uniforms, it isn't anything impossible. (it probably gives them uniforms as it's work related to a nuclear reactor). It's a virus, not a zombie apocalypse. Government can take care of at least that much.
This pandemic did not have to happened; doing the same thing which brought us epidemics before, over and over again, and hoping that it'll never happen again is irresponsible, it's dumb. Since in democracies, governments do what their constituencies want them to do.....we all are to blame. It's time to think about the next deadly virus !!! Every single human bears the responsibility - it's time to change the ways we eat, it's time to change the ways we live. - "There are people who think that the government will take care of them. And then there are people who think."
Reduction in human population and significant decrease of consumption of animal protein are our only hope.
So humans will keep destroying earth a long while even after we disappear... good to know...
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4)A lot of animals in farms, houses and a lot more will die of starvation. 5)Nature will be pulluted from all the abandoned industries and from all the waste not properly buried, recycled or disposed.
I think that humanity will destroy all forms of life first.
It would be great to have some semblance of this everyday, virus or no virus. Realistically we could, a world wide commitment to stay home a bigger percentage of our time. Perhaps too simple but it would still be great!
👍
"Animals Invade Cities As People Quarantine Themselves At Home" ? More like animals come out of hiding after humans drove them out of their own space. Kind of like that series "After People". How animals and the Earth go back to normal when we take a back seat.
Technically, the animals are not invading. They were here first.
I live in the country, so I have not noticed a change as there is always wildlife running around. I do like seeing this post of all the animals in urban and suburban areas. The large predators are concerning as they usually hide to hunt.
This is so cool.
How wonderful to have all these animals free roaming, as it should be.
Just hope these animals can return safely to the wild before humans come out..
And all these dickheads worried about "Saving the Planet" and all they had to do was stay home and shut up.
The little buggers will get a big shock when this is all over and millions of humans suddenly appear all around them. "Busted!"
Maybe us humans can live in a glass domed city, with controlled vegetation, temp, air, and all that and let the nani-mals live out their lives!
Good idea.
Dogs: Jeez, I thought they'd never leave. Maybe we should have a small refuge area for what's left. Cats: F@#k em.
Some of the photos didn't show up?
Do think we human beings as the predominant mammalian species need to do more to make this earth more friendly for the animals we share it with. "Healthier nature" means all living creatures are healthier... including us.
Humans need to reset their relationship with natural world and rethink their place in it. If we don't take care of nature, it will take care of us. We must treat our planet and all its inhabitants with respect for its sake....and ours. Why isn't it happening???
Why do I have the sense that the animals are ready to take over.
Where have all the photos gone?
These are scenes eerily similar to those described in the early episodes of “Life After People.” The Earth is surprisingly resilient.
"even dangerous predators like bears, mountain lions, and wild pumas are prowling in the streets." No, the bears and mountain lions (which are the same animal as "wild pumas") are out and about because the dangerous predators are staying inside.
It reminds be of the History Channel show "Life After People".
These animals are in for a massive disappointment in a few weeks/months. :-7
Yes, they'll be slaughtered, what else.
I'd love to know what they're all thinking. Also, I worry about what will happen when we all come our homes...to them, and to us.
Jessica Julian lol
It’s animal farm!
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THESE PICS MADE MY DAY , THE BEST PICTURES I HAVE SEEN ALL YEAR . MAKES YOU THINK JUST HOW GREEDY HUMANS ARE , WE HAVE GOT TO PROTECT OUR WILD LIFE ( WHICH IS NOT BEING DONE AT ALL ANYMORE ) HERE IN TEXAS ITS THE WORST .
Mother Nature is her planet back...Yay!!! Stupid humans!
It didn't take long for these fake pictures to make their rounds on the internet.... Such as the civet, which was actually spotted in 2016. Conservationists are asking us to not believe this fake news, it's hurting their efforts. Come on, it would take years, even decades, for some of these animals to recover from the damage we have inflicted upon them. Use your brain and stop believing things just because you want to due to a guilty conscience.
This should actually be called Animals taking back what we took from them. WERE the invaders
Depending on where you live, there's really nothing unusual about any of these. Where I live, it's quite common to see deer, coyote, javalina, and foxes. Have been told there's cougars about but haven't seen them myself. Have seen bears reported on local news.
The animals were here first. They're very grateful we squatters have disappeared.
Before you downvote or clapback? Humans arrived in the Americas *last* of any continent. So, yeah, here the animasl *were* first.
This isn’t only pictures of the Americas there’s other places in the world. Native Americans and Aztecs were here also. And should humans not go anywhere animals aren’t? So? Space? If we find microorganisms on mars should we not go there either?
Leo, animals were first on any continent.
This is the way it should be anyway. Let nature do what it wants, we're the ones who should move out of their territory.
To bad poaching is increasing as well. Many endangered animals are shot in the wild during the lockdowns.
The article has mountain lions and 'wild pumas' in the description. Anyway that the author can fix this as they are the same species. It depends on the territory. Mountain lions, cougars and pumas are the same cat.
The virus is extremely sad, however, we will learn much from the experience, to know or to see the cleaner air, and our water, much less pollution for the animals and us, I think the world slowing down, after the virus would be positive , I would love to see , no shopping on Sundays, perhaps not realistic, but there is not enough family time !!!
Think about this. The virus started in China. They lied and hid whats going on with it. They could have contained it. They let it spread hoping it would cripple the American economy and America will come crawling to them to borrow even more money to pay for all of the stimulus bills that'll be passed. Conspiracy? It's the perfect plan for world domination!
SO many things wrong with this statement but the US had some military and US civilians in Wuhan when the virus started, had it started earlier don't you think your own people would have known/caught it/reported it sooner??? The fact that you think everything about this is aimed at just the US economy is.... so American!
No Brad, it's just orange.
Yes, why do Americans believe they're the center of the universe? The "greatest country in the world"?
Tres, I don't think that Chinese would dare play with lethal virus; corona virus is not the first which originated there. They lied about it because they were afraid that world will suspend doing business with them due to this epidemic.
China makes most of it's money off of America so I'm not sure I follow your logic there.
EVEN after the news of coronavirus broke out, a LOT of people in other countries were using airlines and other forms of transportation. Your BS is really sickening cuz despite the virus breaking out in China, there are other places with too many victims at such a short rate, cuz government all around the world is dumb as fuck and ignorant to important issues. Period.
Lighter in Park, people in other countries did not payed attention because previous viral outbreaks were more localized, this is the first time in long time when the virus have spread so quickly, virtually all over the globe.
The headline is all wrong. It was us who invaded their territory.
Since humans evolved on earth and are not an alien species that is not true, we are just a very successful species. Many people love to bath in the guilt but that isn't helping anybody. If you feel so guilty that you see your species (which mans yourself) as an invader get your butt up and do something for a change. You don't need to save the world you just need to change yourself then you are a good example that others can look up to, respect and follow. And that is how things are changed for the better. The thing is: it's so much easier to sit depressed of how bad things are on the couch than to stand up and change your life for something better because that requires effort. Chimps by the way act not different than humans, only difference is they didn't develop technology.
It is true that humans invaded their homes by deforestation and pollution. No other species have affected other species' well beings as much as humans have did so far. Hence we are a species who can be successful, but not successful.
I would disagree; no other animal on earth practices totalitarian agriculture or embarks on deliberate and knowing attempts to drive other species to extinction. Ants may farm aphids, but they don't destroy every insect in their territory that isn't an aphid. Lions may drive hyenas from their territory, but they don't attempt to exterminate them en masse. Humans have been living and shaping the world around us for thousands of years, but it's the advent of totalitarian agriculture that seeks to convert a diversity of biomass into a relatively small number of species. For every plant driven to extinction we have monoculture fields of soy/wheat/corn. For every wolf shot by ranchers we have hundreds of cows. Sure, maybe I'm just a "dirty hippie/commie/Libtard/cuck" but lost diversity is dangerous; it sets up a house of cards so that a single disease or pest can wipe out vast sections of life. Then what do we replace them with? We're losing a staggering amount of insects, agriculture is f
Lighter In Park Jung Yeon's Hand - have to agree with you on this one. How many millennia have people been around, and didn't totally mess up every ecosystem we were in. And we were in every ecosystem. Humans didn't start to take over until the Industrial Revolution. Before that, we pretty much lived within our environment. Humans have put everything out of BALANCE.
The two are not exclusive, you have to face what you are and what you do to your environment to truly be able to change... until you say you are good or it's someone else's fault, or that you are just a very successful specie, you'll never change. Facing yourself, being upset and depressed is the first step...
Thank you! All this species oriented racism was getting boring.
Adina, unfortunately, that's exactly what "successful" people do, and they are not willing to change.
I don't believe that MANY people feel guilty, Mathias, many people are ignorant and arrogant; if they aren't confident (because of their human superiority, or because they believe that God loves them and will always save them) they are hopeful, it's easy to sell hope. But hope without action is an excuse.
You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus.
Thank you for this comment.
No. We are an alien species dropped off on this planet as seedlings and eventually evolved into our current state. We invade and destroy every territory on earth.
Lighter In Park Jung Yeon's Hand - that is not true. When algae evolved into producing oxygen it killed about 2/3 of all life on earth in a very short time it was the biggest mass extinction the planet has ever seen and changed life on earth and earth itself like nothing that came after it. We are very, very far away from that.
Hey Lighter In Park Jung Yeon's Hand: I'd like to introduce you to the lowly beaver...
Not that long ago we lived much closer to the natural world. I'm grateful the other animals are still there, and still willing to move closer to us if it is safe for them to do so.
Amen.
We are children of mother nature too. Don't be so dramatic. Spread love, not misery.
I like your short explanation more than my long one, you're doing good with and at spreading love :)
Animals and humans have been coexisting for thousands of years. I really hate inaccurate comments such as this.
Yeah let’s all go back to where we came from?
Dad's nuts?
Good idea.
Africa?
👍
And now we know what would happen if human population suddenly greatly decreased or disappeared: 1) pollution reduced to very low levels within weeks; 2) animals reclaiming their space, also within weeks.
3) Nuclear explosions from the suddenly abandoned reactors, with no one to turn them off safely and properly.
Okay, let's agree we will turn them off first then... unless something catastrophic stops us. If we were to know we were dying out we should do all we can for any life that remains.
The only threat to avoid is a lot of people socializing without proper protection from that virus. As long as government hires people to take care of that, while also equipping them with safety suits or uniforms, it isn't anything impossible. (it probably gives them uniforms as it's work related to a nuclear reactor). It's a virus, not a zombie apocalypse. Government can take care of at least that much.
This pandemic did not have to happened; doing the same thing which brought us epidemics before, over and over again, and hoping that it'll never happen again is irresponsible, it's dumb. Since in democracies, governments do what their constituencies want them to do.....we all are to blame. It's time to think about the next deadly virus !!! Every single human bears the responsibility - it's time to change the ways we eat, it's time to change the ways we live. - "There are people who think that the government will take care of them. And then there are people who think."
Reduction in human population and significant decrease of consumption of animal protein are our only hope.
So humans will keep destroying earth a long while even after we disappear... good to know...
This comment has been deleted.
4)A lot of animals in farms, houses and a lot more will die of starvation. 5)Nature will be pulluted from all the abandoned industries and from all the waste not properly buried, recycled or disposed.
I think that humanity will destroy all forms of life first.
It would be great to have some semblance of this everyday, virus or no virus. Realistically we could, a world wide commitment to stay home a bigger percentage of our time. Perhaps too simple but it would still be great!
👍
"Animals Invade Cities As People Quarantine Themselves At Home" ? More like animals come out of hiding after humans drove them out of their own space. Kind of like that series "After People". How animals and the Earth go back to normal when we take a back seat.
Technically, the animals are not invading. They were here first.
I live in the country, so I have not noticed a change as there is always wildlife running around. I do like seeing this post of all the animals in urban and suburban areas. The large predators are concerning as they usually hide to hunt.
This is so cool.
How wonderful to have all these animals free roaming, as it should be.
Just hope these animals can return safely to the wild before humans come out..
And all these dickheads worried about "Saving the Planet" and all they had to do was stay home and shut up.
The little buggers will get a big shock when this is all over and millions of humans suddenly appear all around them. "Busted!"
Maybe us humans can live in a glass domed city, with controlled vegetation, temp, air, and all that and let the nani-mals live out their lives!
Good idea.
Dogs: Jeez, I thought they'd never leave. Maybe we should have a small refuge area for what's left. Cats: F@#k em.
Some of the photos didn't show up?
Do think we human beings as the predominant mammalian species need to do more to make this earth more friendly for the animals we share it with. "Healthier nature" means all living creatures are healthier... including us.
Humans need to reset their relationship with natural world and rethink their place in it. If we don't take care of nature, it will take care of us. We must treat our planet and all its inhabitants with respect for its sake....and ours. Why isn't it happening???
Why do I have the sense that the animals are ready to take over.
Where have all the photos gone?
These are scenes eerily similar to those described in the early episodes of “Life After People.” The Earth is surprisingly resilient.
"even dangerous predators like bears, mountain lions, and wild pumas are prowling in the streets." No, the bears and mountain lions (which are the same animal as "wild pumas") are out and about because the dangerous predators are staying inside.
It reminds be of the History Channel show "Life After People".
These animals are in for a massive disappointment in a few weeks/months. :-7
Yes, they'll be slaughtered, what else.
I'd love to know what they're all thinking. Also, I worry about what will happen when we all come our homes...to them, and to us.
Jessica Julian lol
It’s animal farm!
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THESE PICS MADE MY DAY , THE BEST PICTURES I HAVE SEEN ALL YEAR . MAKES YOU THINK JUST HOW GREEDY HUMANS ARE , WE HAVE GOT TO PROTECT OUR WILD LIFE ( WHICH IS NOT BEING DONE AT ALL ANYMORE ) HERE IN TEXAS ITS THE WORST .
Mother Nature is her planet back...Yay!!! Stupid humans!
It didn't take long for these fake pictures to make their rounds on the internet.... Such as the civet, which was actually spotted in 2016. Conservationists are asking us to not believe this fake news, it's hurting their efforts. Come on, it would take years, even decades, for some of these animals to recover from the damage we have inflicted upon them. Use your brain and stop believing things just because you want to due to a guilty conscience.
This should actually be called Animals taking back what we took from them. WERE the invaders
Depending on where you live, there's really nothing unusual about any of these. Where I live, it's quite common to see deer, coyote, javalina, and foxes. Have been told there's cougars about but haven't seen them myself. Have seen bears reported on local news.
The animals were here first. They're very grateful we squatters have disappeared.
Before you downvote or clapback? Humans arrived in the Americas *last* of any continent. So, yeah, here the animasl *were* first.
This isn’t only pictures of the Americas there’s other places in the world. Native Americans and Aztecs were here also. And should humans not go anywhere animals aren’t? So? Space? If we find microorganisms on mars should we not go there either?
Leo, animals were first on any continent.
This is the way it should be anyway. Let nature do what it wants, we're the ones who should move out of their territory.
To bad poaching is increasing as well. Many endangered animals are shot in the wild during the lockdowns.
The article has mountain lions and 'wild pumas' in the description. Anyway that the author can fix this as they are the same species. It depends on the territory. Mountain lions, cougars and pumas are the same cat.
The virus is extremely sad, however, we will learn much from the experience, to know or to see the cleaner air, and our water, much less pollution for the animals and us, I think the world slowing down, after the virus would be positive , I would love to see , no shopping on Sundays, perhaps not realistic, but there is not enough family time !!!
Think about this. The virus started in China. They lied and hid whats going on with it. They could have contained it. They let it spread hoping it would cripple the American economy and America will come crawling to them to borrow even more money to pay for all of the stimulus bills that'll be passed. Conspiracy? It's the perfect plan for world domination!
SO many things wrong with this statement but the US had some military and US civilians in Wuhan when the virus started, had it started earlier don't you think your own people would have known/caught it/reported it sooner??? The fact that you think everything about this is aimed at just the US economy is.... so American!
No Brad, it's just orange.
Yes, why do Americans believe they're the center of the universe? The "greatest country in the world"?
Tres, I don't think that Chinese would dare play with lethal virus; corona virus is not the first which originated there. They lied about it because they were afraid that world will suspend doing business with them due to this epidemic.
China makes most of it's money off of America so I'm not sure I follow your logic there.
EVEN after the news of coronavirus broke out, a LOT of people in other countries were using airlines and other forms of transportation. Your BS is really sickening cuz despite the virus breaking out in China, there are other places with too many victims at such a short rate, cuz government all around the world is dumb as fuck and ignorant to important issues. Period.
Lighter in Park, people in other countries did not payed attention because previous viral outbreaks were more localized, this is the first time in long time when the virus have spread so quickly, virtually all over the globe.