Speaker
Christy
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1 episodes
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1
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Christy confirmed Wisconsin ranks number one in US drinking rates, shown on an Instagram map where the state appeared as a solid smear of red.
Christy learned after her attack that turkeys are especially aggressive at dusk when they are preparing to roost, and making eye contact or running triggers a hardwired chase instinct.
By the time Laura left the camp years later, teenage gossip had transformed her moose standoff into a tale of bare-handed killing and raw-heart-eating. A 7-year-old approached her with complete reverence. She just went with it.
The coyotes most people picture are small Western animals. Eastern coyotes are a 50/50 wolf-coyote hybrid that can weigh up to 60 pounds. Three of them are a genuinely lethal pack.
Beverly Hills, California was named after Beverly Farms, Massachusetts — a small coastal town 20 miles north of Boston where President Taft used to vacation. The rolling hills were the inspiration.
Three large Eastern wolf-coyote hybrids were taking turns lunging at Billy, Sarah's 60-pound English Setter. Without hesitation, Sarah ran in, grabbed the dog's scruff and haunches, and played tug-of-war with the coyotes while kicking them off, eventually booting one hard enough to scatter the pack.
After fighting off 30 monkeys, Darren had to beg two giggling women on a tiny banana float for a ride back to the ship. They demanded he sit in the middle. He did. The whole ship was watching as they slowly paddled back.
A single 2-year-old horse recently sold for $10.5 million in Florida. The real money is in stud fees: top stallions command $250,000 per mare and can breed 200 mares in a season — potentially $50 million in one year from a single horse.
Christy slowed down to pet what she thought were big fluffy balls at dusk. They were turkeys. What followed was a relentless two-bird assault — pecking, taloning, scraping skin — that she fought with punches to the breast, kicks, and eventually gun sounds from her mouth.
Turkeys surveying territory at dusk treat eye contact as a direct threat and have a hardwired chase instinct — riding away only makes things worse. Christy hit every single trigger simultaneously without knowing any of them.
Having hunted turkeys before, Christy knew a gunshot would scatter them. So mid-attack, she made gun sounds at them. The problem: 'pew pew' bears no resemblance to a shotgun blast. The turkeys were not impressed.
Running backwards sounds absurd until you realize turning your back on a coyote triggers its chase instinct. Sarah carried a 60-pound mauled dog through New England forest while periodically spinning to face down a trailing coyote, keeping it frozen in its tracks.
A moose parked itself broadside across the only navigable creek, blocking Laura's group for 90 minutes while the teenage boys went from joking to terrifying silence from dehydration. An air horn did nothing. The moose simply did not care.
With ten dehydrated teenage boys watching from canoes, Laura decided to alpha-stare a charging moose into submission using nothing but her mother's dog-training advice. The moose stopped close enough to touch, assessed the situation, and eventually walked away.
After his girlfriend Jill was bitten on the forearm at Monkey Beach, one monkey's alarm call brought 30 more charging toward her. Darren jumped in front and started throwing kicks and punches at a gang of macaques — not connecting once, but somehow scattering the entire group.
Darren couldn't swim, but a life jacket in shallow waters had given him false confidence. He grabbed snorkel gear and set off across open water toward Monkey Beach. After 20 seconds he raised his head — and the shore looked impossibly far away. He made it, barely.
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