That cousin that tames the children and the degenerates

He really does have that vibe tho!

😂😂😂 Yas. We can't wait for the next adventure cus

Yep, they are really cool. They will often get caught out in the sun and will be so desperate for shade they will chase you to stay in your shadow. Leading them to shade will get it away from you because they just wanna avoid being cooked.

I can confirm that at those elevations in the west, it is below freezing. The air is drier in those areas and the snow amounts are very important for the amount of water that CA uses for drinking, ag, municipal, and fish and wildlife uses. The valleys are much warmer, which creates different types of ecosystems. The snowmelt also provides cold water for many native fish species including salmonids. There are definitely mountain lions and coyotes, but also many other species to be aware of. You definitely don't want to mess with seals or sea lions, which are very prevalent in the coastal regions and sometimes go far up the river chasing salmon runs.

Yep! Agreed. Part of the danger of the desert is the temperature shifts.

Mohave rattlesnakes and mountain lions are the scariest animals in the desert

As a cat enthusiast, I can tell you that mountain lions are not as big a threat as people make them out to be - don’t get me wrong, they are dangerous and should never be approached, and can absolutely kill you, but chances are if you run into one you could probably scare it off if you do it right. Mountain lions can be pretty wimpy(again, still dangerous, never approach one and always look out of them). Luckily they usually hunt alone

Don't worry too much. Mountain lions are pussies and loners. 99.9% of the time you'll be fine. You're much more likely to be shot by accident, or killed in a traffic accident, or shot with your own gun, or shot in a school, or shot by police, or shot by the sheriff's department, or by Boeing - in fact, at 0.18 attacks per year you're ten times more likely to be killed during an insurrection at the White House than by a mountain lion. I get why a lot of Americans have anxiety tho 💯

@@moonstar_draws6283 I know it's not a statistically large threat. Cats are a special interest of mine, I respect them more than anything. But something about this particular fear feels very real to the ancient monkey coding in my brain. Cats in one form or another have been our main predator for a long time, evolutionarily speaking. I'm 115 lbs and like solo backpacking so maybe it is just the fact that they can be as big as I am, or the fact that I'd likely be alone, quiet, and less likely to be noticed before I end up dangerously close to some cubs or something.

@@moonstar_draws6283 how do I scare off a mountain lion (or even a group of them) properly?

yeah mint be like that. It's hard to get rid off

It was some sort of mint.

friends dad had a yard full PeeDee River region, North Carolina.

@@Operngeist1 we loved it. it was a great little garden. we planted basil and figs with it

@fathomlives There’s nothing better than having your own garden! My grandma planted some mint and it seems like it doubles in size every year.

There are non native ones as well in some of the marshes in CA. There are also elk in some places.

a wild zachfrat spotted on youtube 😱

I forreal got caught off guard

My guess would be lemon balm, which is also in the mint family, but doesn't smell like mint, so less obviously mint to someone who doesn't know what it is.

Great minds think alike 😂 A “sucker” joke however…

Gila national forest resident here, your spot on

theyre all posted on iNaturalist and ebird!

@@AVNJ How do you have the patience to report all these observations both on eBird and iNat?

​@@AVNJ I love the nature 😍 ❤

Easy to do considering there are more actual wild boars than javelina in AZ, in estimated population size.

Javelinas are not pigs, they are peccaries. And there are more wild boars running around in AZ than there are javelinas.

As for the lizard maybe a fence lizard(?)

Sup Frank

sup frank

They are very common, all the way to the ocean.

@@jenniferguthrie5588 now I know. I was misinformed by what I thought was a trustful source, now I’ve got to set them straight and tell them just how wrong they are.

I concur.

Camel spiders are not actually dangerous like..at all, unless you are allergic.

@@minxx. they’re known to cause bleeding and swelling majority of bites do get infected. Granted they’re not venomous like the black widow. But they’re a lot more aggressive than most arachnids.

That solpugid isn’t even venomous. They’re not dangerous at all.