Friday 4: Wildlife Encounters

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now off the top of your head, Oh already the
top of my head, did say go already say go TikTok.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
You know what I liked the uh it was fun
talking about the skunks and the possums.

Speaker 1 (00:09):
We did a segment on Monday afternoon in like the
five o'clock hour. I don't know how many people were
our usual listeners tuning in because it was a non
workday for most people. But we were talking about skunks
because I showed Matt a video of a bunch of
baby skunks that were rescued mom apparently had been hit
by a car or something, and they were these orphaned kits,

(00:31):
these skunk kits, and it was just the cutest thing.
And I was like, if you had the opportunity, I
know they're skunks, and I know what the thought is
about skunks, but would you want to rescue or help
rescue these skunks and you know, volunteer for this organization,
help feed them and raise them so they can be
ready for release. At some point your answer was I
don't want to get sprayed. Well, this created a conversation

(00:53):
about pepe le pew and eventually who would win in
a fight between in a possum and a skunk.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
It was a lot of fun.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
But I got to thinking, I haven't actually had a
skunk encounter in the wild. I know they're around, I
know they live in these parts, but I have not
actually seen or had some sort of interaction by like
watching a skunk do its thing in a yard of
mine or in the park or anything. I just don't.
I have no recollect it actually seeing a skunk in

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the wild. Really, so it got me to thinking what
would be the four encounters in the wild that I
would have found to be the most memorable for me. Now,
this isn't not your dog, not your cat, not your
pet fish, not a ferret that you once had. No
also not seeing the line up close and personal at
the zoo, or getting a chance to feed a porcupine

(01:44):
at the zoo, Like I'm about to post a video
of me feeding a porcupine at the Blank Park Zoo
in Des Moines yesterday on my social media. If you
wanted to see that, not that either I'm talking about.
You are just existing and a wild animal that you
don't have a previous relationship with. You either see it
on your street, you see it in your yard, or
you're in the park, you're on a hiker in a

(02:04):
national park and you see animal X and you remember
that moment like that was like a bookmark moment. Maybe good,
maybe bad, no matter what. That's the thought process. So really,
to pare it down, you're Friday four favorite animals that
you've seen or encountered into the wild.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
Okay, what do you got do the honors? I got three,
and I'm gonna have to be spitballing a little bit
to get to four.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
That's okay, that's okay, it's a Friday four. Really, the
rules are you can't have any more than four. Okay,
number one and number one on this list. It was
such a brief encounter grizzly bear. Now, I'll say this,
I'm nine point five out of ten sure that it
was a grizzly bear.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
I was gonna say, are we sure you saw a
grizzly bear. I here's the story. I'll make it quick.
I promise that's fine. This is what this is for.
I was driving down a highway, a back highway in
Colorado somewhere. If I remember correctly, it would have been
somewhere south of Denver, kind of in the Golden Colorado area,
but a little bit more into the mountains. I don't know,

(03:05):
somewhere in there. Sure why it would have you would
be in the range. Yeah, And I looked. I was driving,
and I looked over. I had a pop up that
I was driving behind my Toyota Tacoma shout out, Yeah,
it had a TRD. It was a TRD or other
people call that a turd Toyota racing. What's the D

(03:26):
stand for? Anyway, I'm getting sidetracked. Sorry, So I was
pulling my pop pop or by your turd, my, yeah,
I was. I was driving my turd, as one does.
And out of the corner of my eye memory, I
saw a furry blob merge from lob yeah, emerged from
the forest. And I looked over. I panned over, and

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I saw what to me looked exactly like a full
adult grizzly bear running running. Yeah, like an all fours
all fours? Yeah, okay, And so I slammed on the brakes.
Why I tell you this. I know this thing was
not a beaver. I know this thing was not Like.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
It was big enough you would have noticed the size
difference of a beaver exactly like I'm very sure it's
just the craziness of it makes me unsure.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
But I'm very sure that this was what it was.
I slammed on my brakes to stop and get a
better look and get some pictures. And this running grizzly bear. Yeah,
that like popped out of the forest.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
You wouldn't you You weren't afraid that the grizzly bear
would like make you a target of it.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
At that point? No, No, because I was far enough away. Okay,
this was I was not. No, you were not.

Speaker 3 (04:37):
I was.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
Well, my plan was stop the truck, get an eye
off the turd. Stop, Yeah, make the turd come to
a rolling stop, and and then get an eye on
the grizzly bear and then take pictures from a safe distance.
But okay, what year was this? How much of an
adult were you?

Speaker 4 (04:56):
Like?

Speaker 2 (04:56):
How how nice was your phone to take the said pictures?
It was nice enough. If this would have been when
was this like less than ten years ago? Maybe like
eight years ago something? I don't know. I'd have to
really go back and think about it. Okay, But once
I got stopped, I looked over, did not see the
grizzly bear anymore. Stayed there for a little bit to
you know, see if anything happened, nothing did. So that's

(05:19):
the end of that story. But I'm it goes on
the list because I'm pretty sure that was a grizzly bear.
What else could it have been?

Speaker 1 (05:24):
I don't I mean, that's a good question. I don't
know because I wasn't there. I mean, only you know,
so we have to take your word for it. Yeah,
all right, so it's number two. Number two is going
to be the finback or the fin whale? What that
I saw in Maine off the coast of Maine. Went
out on a whale watching adventure off the coast of Maine,

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and these finback whales or fin whales they're called either,
which are actually the I believe it's the second biggest
whale next to the blue whale. Of course, I've never
even heard of these. Yeah, look it up there. They're
not a hump whale. Is it not the same thing?

Speaker 3 (06:01):
Here?

Speaker 2 (06:01):
It's a fin back whale. Not a humpback whale. No,
a finback whale. They are sixty one to sixty six
feet in length.

Speaker 1 (06:09):
You saw this in the water. Yeah, they were live
one just like swimming around. Yeah, that's crazy. Yeah, And
the thing about it is is like just seeing they
came up kind of close to the boat and you
could see them just emerge a little bit, so they
weren't like, you know, you're not thinking like a humpback
whale just jumping out of the wire breaching. It was
very it was very little, but you could just see

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the discoloration of the water. To see how big that
whale was, it just takes your breath away. Yeah, I'm
that big while watching. Is something I definitely want to
do sometime.

Speaker 2 (06:42):
Amazing. Yeah, something I've not done that I'd like to do.

Speaker 4 (06:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (06:45):
They can grow to the mass of one hundred thousand pounds.
That's a lot. Yeah, okay, so that's a good one.
That's a good one. Number three for me was alligator.
I saw that I was down in Florida on a
vacation with my family. I too have alligator on my list.

Speaker 3 (07:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
Yeah, this one was stunning and crazy because we were
just walking. We were staying at a condo and we
just went for a little walk through the park next
to the condo and there was an alligator just hanging
out and I was like, what So I actually saw
mine on a tour of the Everglades. So I was
in a boat that was swimming, not swimming, it was

(07:24):
was an airboat that was, you know, like propelling around
in the Everglades swamp. And I saw like twelve and
you could see him in the distance a little bit
and you're like, is that one?

Speaker 1 (07:35):
And then you get close to it and you're like, oh,
it totally is. And you see him swimming around when
you haven't seen or have been exposed to those animals.
That's a site, man, Yeah, that is a site.

Speaker 3 (07:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (07:45):
Now you can see him at zoo and stuff, that's
not the same you see him in the wild, just
like moving around.

Speaker 2 (07:50):
Oh yeah. Apparently they liked.

Speaker 1 (07:52):
The boats because usually, you know, the tour guide told
us that, you know, the rednecks that live around in
the Everglades, they'll jump in their airboats and go into
the water and just feed them. Oh so the gators,
you know, it's like this, have this affinity for the
boats because they think they'll get fed every time they
see one.

Speaker 2 (08:08):
Mm hmm. That makes sense. But you saw one just
hanging out. Yeah, I was just hanging out.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
You didn't even go on a tour to try to
see them, Like the whole reason we were in that
boat was to find alligators.

Speaker 2 (08:17):
Yeah, that's pretty cool. It was, and it was also
kind of terrifying.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
Yeah, well, you know what, you want to know something,
it's something that you'll never forget. Oh and that's and
that's what this exercise is for. Absolutely all right. So
here we are four sixteen. I'll give you my list.
I do have four animal encounters that I find to
be the most memorable, and I will tell you why
when we return on news radio eleven ten KFA.

Speaker 5 (08:37):
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Speaker 1 (08:44):
Got to Feed. I showed you this video. I got
to feed a porcupine. You know, me and my porcupine love. Yeah,
I haven't seen one in the while though, haven't seen
a porcupine in the wild. But I got to feed
a North American porcupine named Oscar at the Blame PARKSOO
in Des Moines yesterday as part of their Big Safari
Soire event. Big supporter of all accredited zoos and aquariums,

(09:07):
so you'll be finding me visit many zoos and aquariums
that are accredited throughout the nation. Gone to quite a
few of them and I will go to more of
them in my future. However, zoo encounters are disqualified from
this conversation of our Friday four, which is called our
favorite animals that you've seen in the wild. Basically, they're
in their habitat. You have come up on a they've

(09:32):
come up to you, or you've come up to them
or whatever. They're just living their life. They're not domestic
or anything. They're not in a zoo. You didn't know
they were going to be there. You just kind of
saw them, right. Yeah, and your three, you didn't have
a fourth unless you've come up with one. But your
three that you had, Remember three is okay, no more
than four, that's the rule.

Speaker 2 (09:51):
Why does it? What does it say two out of
three ain't bad?

Speaker 1 (09:54):
That's that does not applicable to this conversation. Apples and oranges?

Speaker 2 (09:59):
Yeah, ok what were your three? My three? Grizzly bear?
Where tell them where? Colorado? Okay? Number two was alligator
in Florida where you would find alligators, and number three
was a finback whale off the coast of Maine. There
you go, pretty cool, minor. You know, I got a
couple of interesting ones. I told you alligators in the Everglades.

(10:22):
I was in an airboat, one of those air propelled
boats in the Everglade National Park, and we were doing
a tour just fine gators.

Speaker 1 (10:30):
I found them. I couldn't believe how big they were.
I couldn't believe how friendly they were for the boat,
you know, like, I just didn't expect them to want
to swim toward the boat and send them away from
the boat. Made it for fun viewing. You're able to
see him in the water and stuff, and you're like, oh,
this is really cool how big they are. But then
I learned the reason they liked the boat so much
is because they think they might get fed, because a

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lot of rednecks with airboats in the Everglade area will
go out and feed them anyway, you know what I mean,
So they get trained like that. Whatever I saw, what
I think this is another thing I don't know if
I'm one hundred percent accurate. It could either be a
beaver or a river otter that I saw in a
small lake in a national or in a state park

(11:12):
in Arkansas. Is a really cool state park in the
South Ozarks, which would have been in northern Arkansas. I
don't know exactly what the populations of beavers or otters
in this specific area would have been. But I saw
its head, and you know beavers and otters from unless
you got like binoculars or something that I could really
like study, I couldn't quite figure out which one it was.

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I think it was an otter, but I was waiting
for it to get out of the water. I couldn't
see it. But that moment of just like sheer excitement
that I might be seeing one of these animals that
excited me to a level I had not like felt before.
Now I felt that way for a few things, and
I'll get to that in a second. But to see
an animal that you've never seen in the wild before
and you think you're about to see one, I saw it.

(11:57):
I just didn't know exactly what it was, yeah, because
most of it was in the water, was swimming in
this little lake area. But it excited me. It's one
of the reasons like I'm kind of on the hunt
for some more wild animals like the porcupines yep at
the Nyabrara River right because I want to have that
feeling of that experience of seeing things in their natural

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habitats as well. A couple of ones that I saw
in my yard. To round this out, my first Baltimore oriole.
I got into the bird watching thing because I recognized
how hard it was to attract Baltimore orioles, and they're
incredibly good looking birds, Like they're awesome looking birds, and
I was like, you know, it might be fun to
see if I can't get one of those. And this

(12:40):
was like twenty twenty one, like coming out of the pandemic.
I'm not like I went camping a lot in the
pandemic kind of got an adjustment for like my I
found out I really loved nature. I really didn't know
that until the pandemic, and it made me feel a
certain way, and I was like, I need more of that.
So I was like, how can I I'd like to
attract some birds, and I want to start with the

(13:01):
oriol because it's kind of a scavenger hunt almost. You
have to like do a certain number of things at
the right time to get them to find you. And
I didn't know if I was going to get them
or not. But when I saw that first one in
my oriole feeder, I couldn't tell you how I almost cried,
how excited I was. I know, that sounds geeky, you know,
thirty year old crying at the sight of Baltimore Oriole
and his bird feeder. But dude, once you get one

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of those in your yard and you see them up
close and personal and you understand that it was you
that brought them there, they're eating the things that you
put out for them, changes the way you look at it.
And now, of course I try to attract as many
different kinds of birds as I can, so that one
mattered to me. It's not nearly as exotic as maybe
some of the other ones that we're talking about, but
that definitely made a difference for me mentally and kind
of gave me a better appreciation about how I can

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be in relation with nature, especially in my yard. Maybe
the most ridiculous of these, though, was that the deer
I saw in my backyard. Now I lived in This
was in Des Moines. I lived in the city. I
wasn't in the country. There aren't a lot of natural
wooded areas where I was living, So you have to
believe me that I was very surprised to see a

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kind of like an older fawn like this was not
a full grown deer. I don't think but it just
hopped our back fence and was in my yard while
we were sitting on the deck.

Speaker 2 (14:18):
Oh wow.

Speaker 1 (14:19):
It was me, my wife and we had Pyro and Palmer,
two of our greyhounds at the time, and we're just
sitting on our deck sofa watching TV on our deck
and I just caught out of the side of my
eye something jump in our yard. And it was a deer,
like a small deer or a large fawn, was by itself.
There were no other deer around. I don't know what

(14:39):
that means. But he hopped our back fence and was
like jogging up in our yard and then Pyro caught
side of it and then chased it. It jumped back
over that fence, jumped another fence and was running through
yards and just hopping fences like a hurdle or wood
in the Olympics. And I sat there and I was like,
what in the world just happened?

Speaker 2 (14:58):
How did that happen?

Speaker 6 (14:59):
Where did they come from? We don't even have whated
areas around here. Yeah, I live next to a highway.
There's no reason for this guy to be here. I
couldn't believe that that had happened. I still can't believe it.
I wish I would have been like fast enough to
get like a video of it in my yard. I
just that'll never happen again.

Speaker 1 (15:15):
I'll never have a deer just hop in my backyard
ever again, unless I move out into the rural areas.

Speaker 2 (15:19):
It's crazy. You ever seen those videos of deer just
like smashing through store windows?

Speaker 1 (15:25):
Oh yeah, oh yeah. They sometimes they just don't even
know that there's glass there.

Speaker 3 (15:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (15:29):
I mean you see a lot of birds that like
fly into glass and stuff. Right, Yeah, it's pretty interesting.
So the floor is now open for you your Friday. Four
favorite animal encounters you've had seeing them in their natural
habitat or seeing them in the wild. You're not going
to a zoo, You're not domesticating these. These aren't animals
that you have, you know, caught, or you've bought that

(15:50):
a pet store or anything. These are animals that you've
seen in their natural habitats or that have come to
you in your yard somehow, like this deer that jumped
our fence. Call us at four two five five eight
eleven ten. Four oh two five five eight eleven ten,
and you can email Emory at kfab dot com Having
fun on our Friday on news radio eleven ten KFAB.

Speaker 5 (16:09):
Emory Sunger on news radio eleven ten kfab.

Speaker 1 (16:15):
She has pictures is a bald eagle and a drive
home from Lincoln, a moose that she saw in Rocky
Mountain National Park, raccoon and bard owl that they had
she got a picture of on their own property. Cool,
she said, photos. That's awesome, bonus points. Got plenty of
other emails coming in, and our phone lines are full

(16:35):
at five four oh two, five to one.

Speaker 2 (16:37):
Let's try this again.

Speaker 1 (16:38):
I have two I do two shows every day and
I said the Omaha phone number on the Des Moines
show today, which oops. So yeah, gotta gotta remember all
those four O two five five eight eleven ten. Four
oh two five five eight eleven ten. Let's go to Sean.
All the phones are full, so if you're trying to
get in now, we're gonna get through these calls.

Speaker 2 (16:59):
Just keep ran. Sean will start with you. What you
got for me?

Speaker 7 (17:04):
Good afternoon, Emory and mister case Yes, hey, So I
live across the street from one of the largest parks
in the city, Seymour Smith on seventy second Harrison. So,
and I'll be brief it's not uncommon for us to
see raccoons, red fox, deer, especially in the wintertime, possums galore.

(17:25):
But since you want video and pictures, I'll be sure
to email. Last Christmas, Hawk came in, grabbed a rabbit
and jumped up on my deck and we got to
watch him devour it on Christmas Day. That was probably
the craziest one I've ever seen.

Speaker 1 (17:45):
Oh boy, that, oh man, that I would have I
don't know what I have watched. That's a tough thing
because you want to see, Yeah, you want to see
what's going on. But I don't know if I would
want to watch that kind of carnage.

Speaker 2 (17:57):
Man.

Speaker 7 (17:58):
It was so the rabbit was so big and Hawk
was so small he could barely fly away with him.

Speaker 2 (18:04):
Wow, that's crazy.

Speaker 7 (18:05):
Anyway, keep doing keep doing what you're doing. We love it.
My wife and I listen to you guys almost every day.
So keep that positivity. We love it, and you guys
have a great afternoon.

Speaker 1 (18:15):
Cheers, brother, Thanks Sean, that means a lot. Really appreciate
the call. Thank you so much. Ah, thank you. I
mean it does mean a lot to us. We hear
stuff like that, right. Yeah, absolutely loved that. Dave David's
on a fallo line of four, two, five, five, eight
to eleven ten. Welcome to the show, Dave.

Speaker 8 (18:29):
Hey, this is Dave. My four encounters took place in Nebraska,
since I lived here all my life. Once I was
on a trail by Bell Braizo and I encountered a
mountain lion ooh, which was a little scary. But I
just stood there and she looked at me and the.

Speaker 1 (18:46):
Way she went, okay, so you still this second, Dave,
So you stood still and she wasn't interested in you.

Speaker 4 (18:52):
Yeah, okay.

Speaker 8 (18:52):
And the second one was always fishing at the sand
pit up by Morris Bluff, and we were in a
boat and we saw I saw a big snake comings
me and my buddy in the boat said that snake's
coming in, and it was like a four foot snake.

Speaker 9 (19:06):
You know.

Speaker 8 (19:08):
So I grabbed the oar and that was the end
of that snake. He wasn't going to get in the
boat right now. And the third one was I had
a lab and he was had a raccoon cornered behind
my house. I lived on an acreage, and they both
were mad. The raccoon was mad and my dog was mad.

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After about five minutes to listen to them both growl
and bark. I went out there my shotgun and I
got rid of the raccoon.

Speaker 2 (19:36):
Dang, Dave, you're hardcore.

Speaker 8 (19:38):
Tom hardcore. And the last one took place in Omahall
Civic Auditorium in the seventies. I encountered George the animal steel.

Speaker 2 (19:48):
That counts. That counts, It counts.

Speaker 8 (19:52):
It was in the wild, it was, it was by
the way. This was rattling baby.

Speaker 2 (19:58):
Whoa, whoa, there it is. Yeah, Dave, thanks for the
call man. Yeah, oh that's good.

Speaker 1 (20:08):
That counts. That's an animal encounter if I've ever heard one. Wow,
that's funny stuff. Bob's on our phone line of four two, five, five,
eight eleven ten. Bob, you got some animal encounters for
me today.

Speaker 3 (20:19):
I do her, Emory and Matty. I said, you made
me follow that.

Speaker 2 (20:26):
Sorry, I had no idea that was coming. Bob had
no idea.

Speaker 3 (20:30):
All right, A couple of quick ones, I asked him,
this is okay. First one, driving on South Dakota Highway
twelve at night, driving down the road, Lama stand in
the middle of the road. What a llama? Lama just
standing A rancher raising lama for the whatever they raised
lamas for.

Speaker 1 (20:50):
Yeah, that it's that hair man that you get some,
you get some. You can make a lot of stuff
with that hair. And I was talking to somebody who
has like show show is lamas at the State Fair
one time, and she's like, yeah, I mean, like every
couple of months, I can just shave him down.

Speaker 2 (21:05):
I have a ton of stuff. I have a ton
of hair to do stuff with.

Speaker 1 (21:08):
So you can make a pretty good, good bit of
money by just having, you know, a big old group
of lamas.

Speaker 3 (21:12):
Yeah, well I dodged that one, but all right, next
one recently on making the rounds on Twitter and all that.
If you see the bald eagle that was too fat
to fly?

Speaker 2 (21:25):
I haven't seen that.

Speaker 3 (21:26):
Okay, bald eagle. They it was sitting in a field
and they finally thought they needed to check him out.
And it turned out he had just eaten like a
coyote or something and he was just too fat to fly.
What digest saw that. I have pictures I could send
him to you.

Speaker 2 (21:45):
Wow, that's awesome.

Speaker 3 (21:46):
Please do yeah, I'll send them to you. Guys. He's
got his claws sunk into something in a plowed field.
It's it's pretty cool, all right. Next one, I was
a ups driver way like forty years ago back in
South Dakota, and I was driving down a country road
in nice Fall, October November day, and I stopped at

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this intercession on two gravel roads. It was a beautiful day,
and I just was kind of looking around, thinking how
wonderful life is and God and the sun and everything
was so great. And I looked over and there was
this giant bucked ear and he was just prancing across
this pasture field and it was it was just beautiful.

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And then all of a sudden he stepped into like
a gopher hole or something and he went butt over
tea kettle and he rolled and he got up, and
I swear to god, he looked left, he looked right,
he looked right at me like nobody saw it, and
he got up and he just trotted off. It was
just it was just me in that gear.

Speaker 1 (22:54):
That is so cool, man. Yeah, I've like the little
guy that I saw in my yard that I talked.

Speaker 3 (23:00):
He.

Speaker 1 (23:01):
I think it was a male because he had just
a couple of little, you know, horns, but they looked
like just little mini horns, not really even Antler's yet
I couldn't imagine having an encounter with a buck that
you know has the rack and you're just like, oh,
look at that guy.

Speaker 3 (23:15):
Oh it was majestic, all right. Then the last one,
I was a peasant hunting up in Southcota with some
friends and we came down through this flu and we
saw these like pointed ears sticking up on a fallen log,
and we were wondering what it was, and then it
started to go up and down, and what it was

(23:38):
was a great horn dowel that was injured. Oh, and
he'd get about he'd get about four or five feet
off the ground, and he ain't go back down. And
without even thinking, I don't know what I was thinking,
but I took off my hooded sweatshirt and I approached
him and I threw it over him, and I scooped

(23:58):
him up like a like a little baby. He was
so light, and he took a tiny little chunk out
of my finger. I don't know what it was, the
claw or the beak, but I pulled that hood back
and he was looking right at me, and I carried
him like a baby back out to our pickup truck
and we shot a rabbit on the way out and

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threw the rabbit in the dog kennel and put the
owl in the dog kennel with the rabbit, and then
we carried kept the dog up in the cab with us,
and we went to the Water Towns south to go
to zoo which is affiliated with Omaha Henry Dorley. Sure
your memberships are reciprocal, and it's a beautiful little zoo

(24:40):
for a and it's also the home of Terry Redlands.
But anyway, we went to the zoo and the zoo
director came out. He had all the leather gloves and
everything and took that all out and checked out his
wing and everything, and he felt that they could be rehabilitated,
and they scheduled at all and they sent him to

(25:01):
Minnesota to a raft rehabilitation center. It was, and it
was it was a really fascinating thing. And that all
had torn the head off the rabbit and eaten all
the brains out.

Speaker 2 (25:14):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (25:14):
And and as food director said, that's the first thing
they go for because it has the most protein.

Speaker 1 (25:21):
That's crazy, Bob. That is a legitimate encounter right there.
And I'm really happy to hear that there was at least,
you know, like a resolution there that you were able
to not just you know, you wanted to catch him
so you could help. But at the end of the
day they said he could be rehabbed and send him
somewhere where you could be rehabbed. That is awesome stuff, Bob,
Thanks for sharing that with us today. Yeah, you bet

(25:41):
all right, Brian, Randy, Gary, We are going to get
to you next. The phones are continuing to ring. If
you have animal encounters you'd like to share for our
Friday for today, just let us know. No zoo encounters
that you could, you know, like he took an animal
from the wild to the zoo, but not that you
saw an animal and a zoo.

Speaker 2 (26:00):
Nothing that.

Speaker 1 (26:00):
No animal encounters of animals you know you had as
a pet. These are like animals in the wild you
had an encounter with And you can call us with
your stories of four h two five five eight eleven
ten four h two five five eight eleven ten, News
Radio eleven ten kfab Brian, what you got for me?

Speaker 9 (26:15):
Two of them involved bald eagles. One when I was
driving over the I eighty bridge to Council Bluffs. Apparently
there was a bald eagle that was feeding on pigeons
that were underneath the structure on the side of the bridge,
but they flew in. The next thing I knew is
this eagle flew up the barrier on the side. All

(26:36):
I could see was talons and the pigeon went past
my windshield. I mean, it came within inches of big
getting hit and stuff, which I was glad not to do.
But I was close up with a bald eagle there.

Speaker 2 (26:50):
Wow.

Speaker 9 (26:50):
Another bald eagle was down at off A four Cook
road near off it and I stopped alongside the road
because they were feeding on some sort of an an
them all in a field, there or three of them,
and I had my binoculars with me, and I was
probably about thirty yards away and very leary. They sat
there and he kept turning around and looking at me,

(27:11):
and you know, I guess they figured I was a
butcher of whatever they found. But it was interesting to watch.
But I said, they were all in there hard with
being in the vicinity. Third one was out in Colorado
at Neustes Park and I was just their people. And
the next thing, clip clop of hooves and it was

(27:33):
an elk oh nice six feet away and justly huge
and didn't realize they were that big.

Speaker 3 (27:40):
Sure that he.

Speaker 9 (27:42):
Owed Nebraska game in Boulder the mid eighties. And first
of all, the fans acted like the animals. The second
and one out there as we were at the end
of they usually run. Ralphie the buffalo, you receiving end
of his of his run. But I mean, these guys
are running full out with was on and et cetera.

(28:05):
But to see a thundering buffalo coming towards you and
then trailer wherever they park it and stuff was kind
of awesome.

Speaker 3 (28:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (28:14):
No, it looks awesome on TV too, A Brian, that's
an excellent list. Thanks so much for calling and sharing
with us today. Let's get to Randy on news radio
eleven to ten KFA B Randy, Welcome to the show.

Speaker 10 (28:22):
What's up, Hi, Amory. They got a list of quite
a few, but I'll go with the ones that maybe
haven't been mentioned all that much. Okay, first one, my
first siding of the Mountain Lion was pretty pretty neat
for me. It was in Nebraska, out at around the

(28:42):
Arnold area. The second one, and I live one hundred
miles west of Omaha, so seeing some of these are
a little unusual.

Speaker 3 (28:53):
Sure, armadillo.

Speaker 10 (28:54):
Yes, yes, very very unusual, and I don't know how
it got this far up, but anyway, so.

Speaker 1 (29:03):
Yeah, no, Randy, real quick, Randy. I talked to a
nature guy about this, and he says they actually are
moving more north like so so you might actually start
seeing more of them in the future. But I'm running
out of time this this hour, Randy, go ahead, real quick.

Speaker 11 (29:16):
One more weeks and the weasel was uh in a
load of arrogation pipe that we hauled into the place
sit and pipe up and he posted his head out.

Speaker 10 (29:27):
He rode in with us, He rode over a half
a mile in the pipe and uh, I got pictures
of all of these things.

Speaker 1 (29:34):
Oh, send him to my email, Randy Emory at KTABE
dot com.

Speaker 10 (29:38):
I'll do that memory.

Speaker 2 (29:39):
Hey, thanks buddy, time wise good enough.

Speaker 10 (29:43):
Hey man, I have more, but that's that's the main one.

Speaker 1 (29:46):
No problem, buddy, Yeah, I hear you. Thanks so much
for listening to us. That's an awesome that's an awesome one.

Speaker 12 (29:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (29:52):
If you got pictures of any of your encounters out there,
you can email Emory at KFYB dot com. I always
love seeing animal pictures. Well continue, Gary, John, Travis, Kevin
there's so many calls coming in.

Speaker 2 (30:02):
We're gonna get to that.

Speaker 1 (30:03):
We're gonna do a quick preview of the Nebraska Colorado
game as well. That's all coming up. I want you
to stick around on news radio eleven ten kfab. Let's
reroute the conversation back into what we were talking about before.
Animal encounters are Friday for today, your favorite or most
memorable animal encounters when you've encountered an animal in the wild.
Gary is on our phone line of four h two

(30:23):
five five, eight to eleven ten. What's up, Gary?

Speaker 12 (30:26):
Yeah, Hey, Amrik, thanks for taking my call. I only
got one story for you. I I snooze fast earlier.
I don't have my whole life story for you, but
I got one. I used to work down at my
wife's boyfriend's farm and he had me, you know, milken bowls,
building fences and working on his truck. And one day
I'm just out there working on his farm and see

(30:49):
a couple of mountain lions come in and completely devour
his entire field of miniature highland.

Speaker 3 (30:55):
Cow what and yeah?

Speaker 12 (30:57):
He fired me, and I I get told I'm not not.

Speaker 2 (31:01):
Gonna do Yeah, what were you gonna do?

Speaker 12 (31:04):
I don't know, but he hired my wife and now
she lives out there and very generous he gives her
free room and board. Real nice guy. But uh yeah
you fired me, so I just kind of sit at
home and you know.

Speaker 1 (31:19):
Uh all right, yeah, uh sounds good. Gary, Hey, I
thanks thanks for the call, buddy, Really appreciate you being
a part of the show.

Speaker 3 (31:26):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (31:27):
Uh, let's go to John real quick, John, thank you
so much for holding being a part of our show
today as well.

Speaker 2 (31:31):
What story you have for me?

Speaker 4 (31:33):
Thanks Henry. I'm trying to hold back after as well. No,
I real quick, I love you, uh but uh no, yeah,
I don't even want to go there. But my four
I'll start with the most intense, probably the most intense.
I was fortunate enough to grow up in Hawaii and
we were free diving for some slipper lobster around locally
and north shore, and up comes a big old tiger shark,

(31:56):
just one by checking us out. So that was probably
the most intent fight. Foot definitely interested in us, and
so we scurried back to the boat pretty quick after that.
That was kind of the end of the day. Yeah,
but yeah, pretty intense. And then the second one kind
of similar This was down in Keilargo, Florida. I was
getting my scuba certification. This was back in college. You know.
I was wearing my nice silver chain, thinking I was cool,

(32:18):
and big old three foot barracuda starts stalking me through
the reef. Pretty certain he was he was interested in
my necklace. That was about a twenty minute slim on
my back, keeping keeping him in my eyesight, making sure
he wasn't going to try to make any moves, right.
But yeah, those were the aquatic ones. And then probably
the most majestic I some previous callers talked about the eagle.

(32:41):
I was down in southeastern Georgia on the coastal marshes
there and cruising along in a boat, and next thing
you know, big old eagle swoops down right into the water,
grabs a big old fish, flies up to its nest,
and literally lands in its nest with the fish, and
you can see all the eagle chicks popping up ready
to eat. That was That was pretty sweet. And then
my last one. I don't know if you've heard of

(33:02):
this before. If you haven't, you're gonna definitely gonna appreciate it.
But this is another Hawaii story on the Big Island.
They have a species of spider called the Happy Face spider. Okay,
it's only in Hawaii, mostly on the Big Islands, and
it's literally a spider with a big old' happy face
on its back. It's the cutest thing. But I was
eighth grade on a field trip and ran into those
in the rainforest there, and they're super friendly. They come out,

(33:25):
they don't mind people at all, and really a cool,
cool experience, especially to see a.

Speaker 2 (33:29):
Person that is pretty cool.

Speaker 4 (33:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (33:30):
I just looked them up.

Speaker 1 (33:31):
That is Their official name is the Third Dion Grelotta
or or Galid or the Happy the Hawaiian Happy Face Spider. Now,
how about that. That's pretty interesting. I appreciate the info there, John,
Thanks for the call.

Speaker 4 (33:44):
Yeah, real quick, go big rit tomorrow night, go Bert tonight.

Speaker 1 (33:48):
Yeah, GBR baby, see it all right, go birds. That's
the Eagles And I'm not going to co sign that
part of it, but I'll do the GBR. Yeah yeah,
Philadelphia Eagles. You're looking at me like I'm an idiot.
Eagles are playing tonight against the Packers in Brazil.

Speaker 2 (34:03):
Oh wake up? Oh yeah you said that earlier.

Speaker 1 (34:05):
Yeah, deep state in your brain here trying to make
you forget the NFL sent to NFL teams down to
Brazil in a gang ridden area. Are they trying to
man in black you from remembering that? Come on, Matt,
remember they were unsure if either of these teams could
even wear green because of the gang signs down there.

Speaker 2 (34:23):
Well, yeah, but that was fake news.

Speaker 5 (34:25):
Yeah it was Emeric Songer on news radio eleven ten
kfab