I feel the need to post about people with exotic animals as pets. Such as monkeys, alligators, lions, tigers and bears. I am just curious what goes through peoples minds when they take these animals in as pets. They know these animals are dangerious, but yet make the same mistake over and over. There have been many attacks on humans due to these mistakes and it is there own fault. They make the decision to inprison these animals in a life of unnatural captivity and due to this decision cause there own injuries and death. Through this decision they also cause others lives to be in danger.
Just like in the case of the famious actor animal Travis. This family kept them in there home for years trusting him just as they would there own child. And even in that case he could take captivity no longer and did what came natural to him and attacked.
These animals where not put her to entertain us. They are not here to cater to our wants. They are wild and are always going to do what is natural to them.
You as human do the same. How can you expect anyless from these animals.
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Travis..
No you may not recognise him right off the top of your head, but you most likely have seen him on comercials. The chimp was in such commercials as old navy and coca cola. The 15 year old chimp travis grew up with his owners being raised as any normal child would. Only difference is this little guy was not a human child. He could dress himself bath himself wated tv and logged on the computer to look at pictures. Sounds like a kid. But he isn’t as he proved the other day by mauling a friend of his owners. The woman came to help subdue the animal after he became agitated and escaped his owners home. After attacking the woman the owner went in and came out of her home carrying a butcher knife in which she repeatedly stabbed the animal. After then animal shyed away the owner called 911 where police and rescue personel were called in. To end the tale the animal died after being shot by police.
No one can explain what made the animal go baserk so I will attemp to explain why here. ANIMALS ARE NOT PEOPLE. And should not be treated as thus. Animals taken out of there habitate and raised in another may forget how they should act in the wild but there instincts never leave. Yes animals do learn certain behavior, but they always have insticts. They are born with instincts and that is what helps them survive.
This is a sad story but in my opinion the owners should never have been alowed to do what they had done to this animal….
ChinChilla
This post is dedicated to my dear sister whose love is her chinchilla 
The Chinchilla is a native animal of the Andes Mountains of South America. It is a little larger than a squirrel, but is a crepuscular rodent. In there native habitate they burrow in crevises of rock and jump up to great hieghts up to 5 feet.
Domesticated chinchillas can be highly skittish but with time and patients make wonderful pets and can become quit attached to their ownders. In captivity there life span is usually about 15 years, but as of 2008 the oldest chinchilla is 27 and living in UK. The oldest in America is 26.
They are usually nocturnal animals that do not tend to like to be picked up during day lite hours.
The Grandaddy of Them All
The Grandaddy long legs..
Also known as the Harvest men are allegadly the most venomious animal in the world, but their mouths are so small they pose no threat to humans. The few cases where people were bitten suffered no lasting problems. Which leads researchers to believe this is only a myth.
They are known for their very long walking legs causing them to be called The Grandaddy Long Legs. There legs can be detached to draw attention to predators to allow for escape.
Most species are omniverious eating on small animals and types of fugi and such. And most are use sex to reproduce.
Many play dead to keep predators at bay.
Fossils have been found as far back as four hundred million years ago. They are a very old species.
American Bull Frog
The baritone call of the bullfrog is so deep and resonant, it resembles the mooing of a cow, hence its name. Only males emit this trademark “jug-o-rum” bellow, and their choruses can be heard during the day or night.
The largest of all North American frogs, this giant can grow to a length of 8 inches (20 centimeters) or more and weigh up to 1.5 pounds (750 grams). Even the tadpoles of this species can reach 6.75 inches (17.2 centimeters) in length.
They are among the most wide-ranging of all North American amphibians, found in freshwater ponds, lakes, and marshes from Nova Scotia, Canada, throughout the continental United States, and as far south as Mexico and Cuba. They have even found their way to Europe, South America, and Asia.
Bullfrogs are typically green or gray-brown with brown spots and have easily identifiable circular eardrums, or tympanum, on either side of their heads.
Nocturnal predators, they will ambush and eat just about anything they can fit in their ample mouths, including insects, mice, fish, birds, and snakes. They sit quietly and wait for prey to pass by, then lunge with their powerful hind legs, mouths open wide.
Males are highly territorial and will aggressively guard their land. Females are slightly larger than males.
Fireflies..
We have all seen them. They are a signature summer is here. Our kids go out on warm summber evening and catch them in little jars.
But what you may not know is they are apart of the beetle family. They also produce their own glow. When they take in oxygen it mixes in their body with luciferin to produce light with almost no heat!
Firefly light in intermitent and they blink with a unque patterns within their species.
The female plants her eggs in the earth and when born they eat worms and other insects in the ground. Adults can also eat these insects and pollenate, but some adults don’t eat at all!
Their life span is about two months and they are omnivores about the size of a paper clip.
Man Eating Octopus.
On aol news this morning they are featuring a story on a fresh water octupus out of Oaklahoma. There have been many stories over the years of such a creature, but has never been proven.
They say that for years Native Americans have told legends of the lake monster the size of a horse. But from an anonymus person whome lives in Oaklahoma says the lake wasn’t even formed until 1965 when the Norman damm was completed. So from that point of view it is impossible for the native americans to have started the legends.
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread101097/pg1
But from anothers point of view. Sharks were considered to only live in oceans up until a few years ago when it was found that some spiecies of shark can actually swim up rivers to live in fresh water. So who is to say there isn’t some spiecies of Octopus that could do the same?
Above is a picture of a Blue Ringed Octopus that lives in tide pools of the Pacific Ocean. They are one of the most venomious creatures known to man.
The above picture is a Humboldt Squid or Jumbo Squid. They are found in the waters of the Humboldt Current. It is a very aggressive predatory squid that is usually found 660 – 2300 feet below the surface. They have also been know to come within 400 foot of the surface and attack divers. They can grow to be up to 7 feet and weigh in at 100 pounds!!
So there are some big ones out there and some aggressive and venomious ones but could they possibly be living in Oaklahoma?
The deadliest…
Just thought I would add this on in due to myself putting the second most poisonious vertebrate in my last post. I didn’t want anyone worry about what the most poisonious was lol.
Golden Dart Frog
The most poisonious vertadrate. Indigenous people use the venom from this frog on the end of their arrows they use to hunt…
Blow this….
The Blow Fish
Today we are talkin about the Blow Fish. The Blow Fish, also known as the Puffer Fish is the second most deadly vertibrate in the world! In Japan and Korea this fish is considered a delacy. Only skilled and trained chefs are able to cook these fish in to edible food. One wrong cut can kill a man. The Blow fish has enough venom to kill 30 adult humans. There are many anual deaths due to eating these fish.
The puffer soup (chiri) is the main killer of anual deaths due to eating this fish. The sashimi fugu (raw sushi made of this fish) often causes intoxication, light headedness, and numbness of this lips and other issues and is often eatin for this exact purpose..
