Not sure how rare they are, but I’ve seen wild crested caracaras a few times.
Probably wild camels in central Australia or a platypus when I was young.
Desert tortoise, and an old one at that. Was bigger than a basketball.
Giant Millipede and Armoured Millipede. Not the rarest but you will never seen one without going into the forest.
Quokka on Rottnest Island (Western Australia)?
Followed by trying to stop fuckwits from playing “quokka soccer”. 🤭
Kemps Ripley sea turtles
African penguins maybe? They’re endangered. I took my partner to feed them at an aviary.
I feel like I’ve seen a black rhino before, maybe at the San Diego zoo as a kid or something. Those are critically endangered, all but one subspecies extinct.
If we’re including captive animals, the one that stands out the most to me is a Chaco Owl. It’s not considered endangered yet, but it’s only found in one particular area of the world, at the borders of Bolivia, Paraguay, and Argentina.
In the wild, I’ve come across porcupines on a few occasions, and I almost had a fisher cat run up my leg. I didn’t know we even had them in my state, so I was very freaked out as to what this long, furry thing coming at me was. I wish I had maintained my composure so I could have gotten a better look at it, but it’s also the kind of thing in glad we figured out what each other was before I was in biting range!
Captive animals, I’ve seen countless exotic animals. Wild animals are a cooler experience.
A wild black bear in the northern Lower Peninsula.
A loggerhead sea turtle in Calibogue Sound.
A baby Atlantic bottle nose dolphin riding waves at a beach in South Carolina.
I saw a group of 25k redhead ducks together floating on Lake St. Clair in 2022.
Not rare animals, but the sight was. I saw a bull shark eat a sea gull that was floating on the water.
I also saw a dead alligator that was bloating up from rot get stuck on the bow of a boat on the Savannah river. A guy tried to kick it off and his foot went through it and it was the most putrid thing I’ve ever seen.
Giant hornet. Easily 4 inches long. I have no idea what it was doing in California.
I have no idea what it was doing in California
Steroids probably
Not sure how rare they are, but it was rare for me
Hmm, I am not sure I’ve seen anything rare, though we do have some animals in Florida that I don’t think are everywhere, have seen wild manatees and alligators, those enormous Sandhill Cranes and pink spoonbills, lots of lizards and snakes.
The animal I have personally seen, but most rarely though, is a fox. Have only seen one wild fox in my over 50 years.
Probably a sea turtle. Was snorkelling in Malaysia, completely obsessed with the coral and all of the fishes, when this massive turtle just cruises by. Held my breath for as long as I could to swim next to it, not too close but just wanting to be in its presence, it was so calm and majestic as it headed out into the deeper ocean
I saw my first Praying Mantis yesterday.
Red squirrel
