Things with Wings, Teeth, and Too Many Legs

In this episode, we talk about unexpected encounters with creatures of all kinds, from tiny mice to giant snakes. We share stories about a mouse in the house, a bear in the yard, a bat in the kitchen, and the strange mix of fear, fascination, and comedy that comes from surprise meetings with wildlife.

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SPEAKER_00 0:00

Okay, do you want to hear my creepiest, like still makes me want to throw up creature story? Maybe. I know. It's a rhetorical question. You're gonna hear the story whether you want to or not. Hello, Eepers. Welcome to another episode of Extra English Podcast with Misha and Larissa.

SPEAKER_01 0:19

We're two Canadian English teachers talking about life in Canada, our lives, and anything else that might interest us. And hopefully we'll interest you too. So join us for another conversation. Today we'll talk about encounters with animals.

SPEAKER_00 0:38

Yes, love it.

SPEAKER_01 0:42

Have you had an encounter with an animal?

SPEAKER_00 0:44

Yes, have I ever told you about the time my roommate and I chased a bat around our kitchen? This sounds vaguely familiar, but tell me again. Also, when I say she and I chased it, she did the chasing. I did the equally important job of cowering under the kitchen table. While screaming.

SPEAKER_01 1:05

Okay, so I am envisioning uh a roommate like being active, chasing an uninvited guest around the around the house. A gross bats are gross. They're icky. The flap, the flap. You know what I'm talking about? It's like oh, I hate it. Yes. And then you are under the table. Under a blanket, maybe.

SPEAKER_00 1:30

I I was indeed under a sheet that we had brought to try to catch it. Just hiding. Just hide. Listen, I I don't certain creatures just really raise the hairs on the back of my neck. Bats are one. And this bat, I think, had found its way into my room. Oh. And I got my dad to come over because I suspected something. Okay. I'd heard something in the night. Or I got my dad to come over and look for it. We couldn't find it. But then one day my roommate and I went out for a walk, and we had left our doors, like the big door open, anyway, so there was fresh air in the house. Okay. But it was it was screened. I think it came. Yes, it was screened. And we came home from our walk and we could see it. Oh, oh, on the main floor. Whipping around. And crawling, just thinking about it. So we we read, we must have Googled it. We read that if you throw a sheet up in front of a bat because of their way of sensing, sometimes you can catch them that way. So we got a sheet.

SPEAKER_01 2:32

Wait, you can catch them by throwing something under them.

SPEAKER_00 2:35

It no, in front of. Oh, okay. So he was like at this point whipping around in circles in the kitchen. Okay, yeah. Around the ceiling. And we read that you if you throw a sheet up, well, in in its path, sometimes it'll whap into the sheet and Okay. Yeah. Did it work? No. No. It didn't work. You got wrapped up in the sheet. We caught a Misha. No, it didn't work. Probably user error, I'm sure. Um, and so my friend is trying to. Oh, eventually it landed, it hung in the window like frame. Okay. Okay, but it was resting. Yes, but the window itself was open, and the bat was kind of like on the screen part. Okay. Or like hanging. So it couldn't get out because the screen was keeping it in. It couldn't get out. But we could trap it by closing the inside. Yes. So my friend is trying to do that while I'm under the table under the sheet. Not even being moral support. No, not helpful. In fact, I'm sure I was the opposite of helpful. Okay. I'm screaming. She's trying to do a stressful job. The bat's screaming. The only one behaving reasonably was my roommate. She manages to close the window. Okay, good for her. So now he's trapped between the window and the screen. Yes. So we go outside. I at least was company, however unhelpful. I stuck with her in my terror. She drags a picnic table over to the window so she can reach up high enough. So now I have a new place to cower. Did you climb under the picnic table? I think so. You need a couple layers. Meanwhile, the bat's screeching, and it's like the other bats have heard it's its distress signal.

SPEAKER_01 4:26

It's calling for help?

SPEAKER_00 4:27

Calling for bat up? Yes, bat up. So now other bats are swooping my friend. Oh no. She's really one of the bravest people I know. As I'm recounting this. She's a hero, yeah. They're swooping her. She's trying to get the screen out. Our neighbors are good friends. We're screaming. They heard nothing. What? Later we were like, where were you? Next time we scream like that, come try cotton us. Please. Anyway, eventually she got the screen loose. That flapped away into the dark. The rest went with it, thank goodness. They don't hold a grudge, as far as I know. Uh and I was unscathed. Physically. But maybe not emotionally. Anyway, it was a yeah. I didn't like it. No. But thank goodness I had a brave- What would I have done on my own? Um cried on the kitchen floor? I think you would have moved out.

SPEAKER_01 5:26

Yeah. You would have called your dad. 100%. Um, what is it about bats that make them so dis so off-putting?

SPEAKER_00 5:38

To be fair, I think they've been marketed poorly.

SPEAKER_01 5:41

Okay, yep.

SPEAKER_00 5:42

Right? Bats, they're vampires, they're gut fangs, they're like part of evil scenes in movies. Yeah, okay. But also the sound and the rabies. Oh. There's a lot of reasons. There's a lot of reasons. They um I was like, they're quite bony, like they're skeletal. Yeah, and the leather wings, yeah. Like leathery. Yeah. They're like the rats of the sky. Uh-huh. And nobody likes rats. Nobody likes rats. I mean, some people have rats as pets, so I guess some people do, but they're the outliers, I think.

SPEAKER_01 6:13

Most people don't like rats. Yeah. So I've never encountered a rat.

SPEAKER_00 6:21

Yeah. But I have a story about a mouse. Let's hear it. Rat of the sky, mouse of the sky. Mouse of the Maybe the mouse is the rat of the ground. What are you even saying? Let's hear your mouse story.

SPEAKER_01 6:39

So when I was a teenager, um I had a waterbed. Do you remember waterbeds? Yeah, my parents had a waterbed. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 6:48

Wow.

SPEAKER_01 6:48

So if you don't know what that is, um, they were like it was a bed filled with water. So instead of your mattress being filled with foam or coils and springs, it it was a like a large plastic bladder that we filled with water and it was heated. So it you could set the temperature.

SPEAKER_00 7:08

Forgot it was heated. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 7:10

So it was very nice. Like it it moved the way you wanted it to, and it kept you warm. But we don't have them anymore. I think they're probably not good for your body.

SPEAKER_00 7:19

I think they're probably really bad for your back.

SPEAKER_01 7:21

Yes. So you can't find one anymore, but they were all arrayed.

SPEAKER_00 7:25

They were very popular.

SPEAKER_01 7:26

What maybe early 90s.

SPEAKER_00 7:27

You'd sit on it and it would go like slosh loss.

SPEAKER_01 7:29

Yes. Yeah. Weird. So you had one. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 7:33

Well no, I'm I'm already nervous.

SPEAKER_01 7:35

It's not as bad as you think.

SPEAKER_00 7:36

Okay, good. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 7:37

Um, so instead of making my bed every morning, I was a teenager, I would get up, I would leave my blankets in a big pile on my bed. One day, I was coming home, getting ready for bed, and I made the bed in order to climb into it. Because I want to so practical. Um and as I unfolded the blankets, there was this tiny mouse just sleeping, enjoying the warmth of my water bed. No, I was so scared. I screamed, I ran upstairs. My bedroom was in the basement. I ran upstairs and I refused to go downstairs for a week.

SPEAKER_00 8:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 8:12

A week.

SPEAKER_00 8:14

So reasonable. Listen, he had other mousy friends. They all heard how you interrupted his nap. They're coming.

SPEAKER_01 8:22

It was, yeah, I was so scared. I must have, I don't know if I got someone else to go get clothes for me or if I went down, like I got brave and I went down to get what I needed and then back upstairs. But I slept outside upstairs. Upstairs, upstairs. No. Outside might be a bit overreaction. It was probably winter. Who knows? It's always winter in Canada. Um, yeah, I was I was not okay for a while. Before then, I had heard rustling in the rafters. I had like I we knew that there were there were critters about. But as long as they're just noise, as long as they're hypothetical, that's one thing. That is once once you see them, yeah. I was not okay.

SPEAKER_00 9:00

What did someone go and like do something about the rat? Like catch it or traps were set. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 9:05

Oh, and they were successful. They must have been I I I think I've blocked out that whole experience.

SPEAKER_00 9:12

She doesn't remember the next month.

unknown 9:14

No.

SPEAKER_01 9:16

But I have not seen a mouse. Oh, that's not true. I was gonna say I haven't seen a mouse since, but this past winter, um, my daughter and I were coming home from something and our front lawn was all covered in snow. It was like no, oh my goodness, no. Snow. Because it was better. It was actually winter for sure. And she said, Mom, there are all there are all sorts of mice. And I was like, What are you talking about? And I look and there's like two or three mice running on top of the snow. They disappeared under the snow, and I had never seen them again. We haven't heard them in our house. I don't know where they went. I don't like do they live under the snow? I think mice live.

SPEAKER_00 9:59

Yeah, I don't know. And why did they mices other than our houses for holes in the ground?

SPEAKER_01 10:06

Well, that's where that's where child monks live.

unknown 10:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 10:10

We don't know a lot about creatures we don't like.

SPEAKER_01 10:12

Anyway, that's true. I don't know much about creatures I do like either. That's true. Anyway, we never saw them again, but she she was quite upset about it, thinking that they could be in our house. Yes. And I get that, because I had a water bed mouse. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 10:30

And you don't want a bed mouse. That's the worst kind of mouse. It's it really is, yeah.

unknown 10:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 10:35

Well, I'm glad you haven't seen them again. Fingers crossed.

SPEAKER_01 10:37

We never did.

SPEAKER_00 10:38

No.

SPEAKER_01 10:39

But they are kind of cute.

SPEAKER_00 10:41

If in the right context. Yes. I had a friend as a kid who kept a lot too many rats as pets.

SPEAKER_01 10:48

Why would you have multiples?

SPEAKER_00 10:50

Uh maybe they bred them or something, because I remember a lot.

SPEAKER_01 10:53

Why would you breed them?

SPEAKER_00 10:55

So many I feel like they do fight on their own.

unknown 10:57

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 10:58

Anyway, I in that setting they were cuter.

SPEAKER_01 11:02

Yeah, in a cage, they're cuter.

SPEAKER_00 11:04

Yes, exactly. That's exactly it. Contained. You want to know where they are.

SPEAKER_01 11:08

But I feel a rat with its its thick tail and long snow. I don't I can't find that really cute. A mouse can be cute.

SPEAKER_00 11:16

A mouse is definitely the cuter cousin of the rat.

SPEAKER_01 11:20

It's not the rat of the land, or whatever you said.

SPEAKER_00 11:24

It's the mouse of the land. It's graduated up. I've been convinced. Also, I mean, there have been like Disney movies made about mice. Yeah. The rats, if they're in there, they're not. They're always the bad guys. It's true.

SPEAKER_01 11:36

Yeah. Mice sing. Mice sing and dance in Disney movies.

SPEAKER_00 11:39

Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 11:40

Okay, we've come around.

SPEAKER_00 11:41

They're not the worst.

SPEAKER_01 11:43

But mice, please just stay out of my bed.

SPEAKER_00 11:45

Yeah, agreed. Out of your house.

SPEAKER_01 11:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 11:48

Give them a firm boundary. Yeah. The foundation. That's where you stop. Okay, do you want to hear my creepiest, like still makes me want to throw up creature story? Maybe. I know. It's a rhetorical question. You're gonna hear the story whether you want to or not. Okay, when I was traveling in India with my brother just after I graduated in my 20s, my brother and I were backpacking around, as young folk do, and we went on this trip in the desert. I don't know if it's relevant, but might be where this creature came from. Anyway, we had just gotten back to the city, and one morning, you know, I got dressed, I put on a long skirt and a shirt of some sort, and we went to breakfast. And I felt something kind of scratchy in my skirt. No, no. I'm so sorry, it gets worse. And I thought, because my mind doesn't immediately go to nightmares, thank goodness. Yes, that it was, you know, we had water, we would drink water out of these sealed bottles, so we had these little plastic pieces we'd take off the top. I thought one of those got tangled up in my skirt, so I shook it.

SPEAKER_01 12:52

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00 12:52

And it seemed like it fell out. I went about my breakfast. Then we're walking in the street shortly after that, and I feel it again. And I'm like, oh, I didn't shake that thing out. So I go to flip the my skirt was a wraparound skirt, so I flipped over one edge. The biggest, longest, leggiest, like millipede, centipede, but like thick and long. Huge is in my skirt. I know, so gross. Oh, I don't even wanna. Anyways, so now we're in the street, in an Indian street. I don't remember which city we're in. And I shake, I'm flapping my skirt up and down and screaming and trying to explain to my brother what the happened. He's like, what are you doing? And I just panic. And eventually it like flopped out like it was meaty. It flops on the floor and scurries away into the like gutter thing at the side of the road. So gross. Yeah. I cannot tell you how much I inspected every article of clothing for months after that. Yes. Because like, where did it come? Did it crawl in my bag in the desert? I don't know what kind of creature this is. Would it have bit me? Who knows?

SPEAKER_01 13:56

I think if if it was hungry, it was in your skirt for a while. It would have, it would have had a bite before then. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 14:02

Oh. So gross. Yeah. Anyway, that will that was my worst insect experience. There have been a few others, but that's top of the list because I think it was in there an hour or more. Wow. Like we woke up, got dressed, went in our breakfast, and we're strolling the town. Yeah. Also, if you want to attract attention in the street, first of all, be a foreigner. Second of all, scream and lift up your skirt. It's quite the scene.

SPEAKER_01 14:30

Oh, you're just a party, aren't you?

SPEAKER_00 14:33

24-7.

SPEAKER_01 14:36

Fortunately, I can't think of any traumatic bug experiences. Yes, fortunate.

SPEAKER_00 14:42

Let's hope that's my last one.

SPEAKER_01 14:44

Yes, I don't want to think about that.

SPEAKER_00 14:46

Um recently we live in the right place for not giant bugs.

SPEAKER_01 14:49

It's true. Yeah. Yes. But you know what? We do have what? Bears.

unknown 14:53

Oh.

SPEAKER_01 14:56

Trade-off. Giant bug bear. It's a tough one. It's a tough one. Um, when I was a child, I I saw a bear.

SPEAKER_00 15:03

Oh.

SPEAKER_01 15:03

In real life in my backyard.

SPEAKER_00 15:05

Oh my gosh.

unknown 15:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 15:06

It was very surprising. What kind of bear? Black or brown. So I don't remember because it's only from memory.

SPEAKER_00 15:13

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_01 15:13

Black or brown, and I know that there's a big difference between black and brown. They're supposed to be a difference. One of them you're supposed to pretend you're dead, and one of them you're supposed to pretend you're big.

SPEAKER_00 15:22

Black bears are are on the bear scale relatively harmless. Okay. You can scare them off pretty easy, I think. But a brown bear, different story.

SPEAKER_01 15:31

So I'm gonna say it was black. Yeah. Let's say. But also I was a child.

SPEAKER_00 15:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 15:35

And I don't know the difference between bears.

SPEAKER_00 15:37

No, and e either way would have looked huge to you. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 15:40

It looked huge. Also, it was a baby.

SPEAKER_00 15:44

As were you.

SPEAKER_01 15:45

That's what I said. So my sister and I are playing in the backyard. No gosh. Just for context, we live in southern Ontario. Now this story happens in what we considered northern Ontario, but is actually not super far north. But still, like it this won't happen here.

SPEAKER_00 16:04

North of where we I was gonna say, because I don't think brown bears are here. Are there black bears here? Yes.

SPEAKER_01 16:10

Here and this this far?

SPEAKER_00 16:11

I think so.

SPEAKER_01 16:12

Oh.

SPEAKER_00 16:13

Yeah, yeah. I think there could be.

SPEAKER_01 16:14

Oh.

SPEAKER_00 16:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 16:15

Well then we we have deduced it was a black bear. Well, no, but you were north. I was north.

SPEAKER_00 16:21

So who knows? Okay. You were in a wilder country, is my own.

SPEAKER_01 16:24

It was wilder. It was wilder.

SPEAKER_00 16:26

And you weren't living in a city.

SPEAKER_01 16:27

It was a city, a small city. Interesting. Yeah, it was very unusual for there to be a bear. We were living on a street with traffic, and we had a fenced backyard. Oh my gosh. And my sister and I are just playing. And then this bear comes like through the driveway, through the gate, up, up like the backyard, over the fence, into the neighbor's yard, and it disappears.

SPEAKER_00 16:49

Oh MG. We don't know what to do. No.

SPEAKER_01 16:53

And so we're like, climb the tree. So we climbed the tree. Now, bears can climb trees. So it wasn't the smartest move. But we were kids. And we thought, get away from the bear. Yeah, go up the tree. The bear wasn't interested in us. He was probably so scared. And next thing I know, there's police coming by. Oh my gosh. Okay, I say police. This is all from memory. From like seven-year-old memory. In a uniform. Yes. So I suspect it was a combination of police and animal services and city employees and I don't know who, but there were siren not sirens, but lights. And they were they were concerned about the baby bear, but they were more concerned about the mama.

SPEAKER_00 17:33

Oh, absolutely. That's the real it didn't occur to me, but if you see a baby bear, you should be real scared. Somewhere there's a there's a mama.

SPEAKER_01 17:42

So we didn't see any mamas. We didn't see that bear again. They got the information from us and then they went off and they like interviewed you about the bear. Well, like my mom. Yeah, because what was I gonna say? It just went that way from the tree. It went that way. Like it was kind of exciting and scary at the same time, but more I think exciting. Because I had never seen a bear before.

SPEAKER_00 18:04

Totally. And then you have a fun story to tell people.

SPEAKER_01 18:06

Yeah, I'm I don't know if anyone believed me. There was a bear in my backyard. No, there wasn't.

SPEAKER_00 18:10

I mean, it's uh it's believable.

SPEAKER_01 18:12

Well, thank you. Surprising.

SPEAKER_00 18:14

I trust you.

SPEAKER_01 18:17

I speak the truth.

SPEAKER_00 18:18

You tell me there was a dragon back there. I'm like, what kind? Fire breathing or not. So were you like you're playing and the bear comes over the oh no, in your yard first.

SPEAKER_01 18:32

Yeah, it just it just entered through the open gate, I guess.

SPEAKER_00 18:34

What was the did you freeze? Well how close was it?

SPEAKER_01 18:38

We must have been c on the side of the tree. Like I'm trying to imagine the backyard. There was a swing set on one side and a tree on the other. It must have been on this side because we were like, ah, a bear. Let's climb the tree. I mean and then it it didn't go very fast. Like bears bears don't move super fast. They're big.

SPEAKER_00 18:55

They amble, they're amblers. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 18:57

So it just like lumbered through lumber and then over the I don't know how it got over the fence. It must have struggled a little. I mean, if they can climb trees. Oh yeah. But fences are like one of branches. It was one of those metal like chain lengths.

SPEAKER_00 19:10

Oh, chain length.

SPEAKER_01 19:11

Yeah, I think it might have been hard.

SPEAKER_00 19:12

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_01 19:13

But it was also a sloped, a sloped backyard, so maybe that helped. I'm not sure. Anyway, it was gone.

SPEAKER_00 19:19

I don't want to think that they have more skills than I'm aware of. You know what I'm saying? You camp, you go camping. We do go camping. Have you ever encountered a bear? We've seen a bear at a distance. Okay. Black bear. My mom is very scared that we will one day run to bears. So we carry bear spray, which is like pepper spray for bears. But we've never needed it. Once, though, we saw a mama moose. Oh. And moose are scary. Okay. Like they're very large. They're very large. And it was relatively close to us. So we were we were in our canoe in this kind of grassy, like it wasn't really open water, so we didn't have a lot of options. So we just kind of, you know, calm paddle, paddle, paddle, paddle. Got away from it. Because it also had a baby with it. And creatures are much more dangerous when they have their offspring with it.

SPEAKER_01 20:09

They want to protect their babies. Yes. They're wonderful. Yeah. They're they're being they're doing what they're meant to do. That's right. We're getting in their way.

SPEAKER_00 20:17

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 20:18

We often think this is our space. Like, what are you doing in my space? But they were here first. They were totally. Oh, a moose. Did it look elegant, or did you not have a chance to really examine it because you were scared?

SPEAKER_00 20:32

Um, no, it looked, I wouldn't say elegant. They're kind of like goofy looking, a little goofy is not the right word, but they're like, you know, they're they're big and they look cool. Like it was cool to see, and I haven't seen one before or since. Okay. So it was definitely interesting.

SPEAKER_01 20:49

I've never seen a moose. I've seen deer.

SPEAKER_00 20:51

Yeah. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 20:52

Deer are fairly common.

SPEAKER_00 20:55

Yeah, even in the city, you sometimes see a deer, you know, bolting around.

SPEAKER_01 21:00

We once uh had our car totaled by a deer.

SPEAKER_00 21:03

Oh no.

SPEAKER_01 21:04

It was running across the street and we couldn't stop in time. And it was so sad.

SPEAKER_00 21:10

Yeah, that is sad.

SPEAKER_01 21:10

Because deer, I think deer are elegant.

SPEAKER_00 21:13

Deer are elegant, for sure. Yeah, they're beautiful. And the way they move is really beautiful. Yeah. Like they're kind of leaping.

SPEAKER_01 21:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 21:20

We are lucky, I will say, to live in a place where there really aren't that many scary creatures. Yeah, true. We don't have a lot of venomous, overly large, human-eating things here. Like the bear and the moose, if you corner them, or they felt their their children were in danger, might rush you.

SPEAKER_01 21:39

You know what we are in most danger from here where we live? Geese.

SPEAKER_00 21:44

Oh my gosh. Listen, if you ever see a Canada goose, do not think it's a friendly thing. No. They're loud, they beak people. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 21:56

They're aggressive. Yeah. They're really quite aggressive, especially in the Spring, especially when it's totally uh like baby season. Um, yeah, and they're also messy, they're messy.

SPEAKER_00 22:06

She means they poop a lot.

SPEAKER_01 22:07

They poop a lot, green poop everywhere.

SPEAKER_00 22:10

Green grass barely, barely changed on its journey.

SPEAKER_01 22:14

Yeah, yeah, but they are probably the most the most aggressive creature I've ever encountered.

SPEAKER_00 22:19

And they're they're prolific, they're everywhere. Yeah. Where we live, they're everywhere this time of year and all through the summer. Yeah.

unknown 22:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:26

Okay, I have one last creature story. Yeah. Another India adventure. Oh, am I gonna be scared? Um, no, no, this one's not scary. Okay. It's more fun than scary. All right. I mean, yeah. I'm here for it either way. It's not in my clothing.

SPEAKER_01 22:41

So that already gives us a layer of less scary. And you turned out fine, so it's gonna be okay. Yeah, yeah, I survived.

SPEAKER_00 22:49

So I was living in Odisha, which is a state on the East Coast. Okay, and um, I had a room, like I was working for a nonprofit, so we many people lived and worked on campus. I just had dinner, I came back from the mess, I was in my room, I changed into my pajamas already, and then the cook calls me on the phone. There's a landline, and he says, Misha, Misha, big snack. And I'm like, a snack? A snack. Are you hungry? And he's like, big snack, come, snack. And I'm like, okay, like he really wants me to come. I didn't speak the local language very well, and his English was better than my Oria, but pretty limited. So he says, a big snack, he's excited. I'll go see. Yeah. So I go out the door of my room and I see, like, not far down the path, a group of men standing there, like talking excitedly, including the cook. So I go over and there's a python. Oh! Like a huge snake. So then I realized it wasn't snack. Not snack. It was snake. Although, like, maybe you could eat it, but not in that moment. Well, also, it had clearly eaten something. Oh, it had like a big bulge. Oh. Like cartoons. Yeah. So I think the the vibe wasn't fear. Okay. And I think partly because it had clearly just eaten. Yeah. So it wasn't super lively or whatever. But there's a man with a bucket and a stick trying to corral it into the bucket? The big snack can fit in the bucket. And it wasn't a very big bucket. Also, like, I mean, again, where we come from, there's not a lot of big creatures. So even though nobody seemed very afraid, I am a little bit afraid. Of course. I mean, it's a python. Yeah. You've heard about them. They have a reputation. It's not good. But but that was it. So I watched for a while, watched them try to stick it into the bucket. Yeah. Uh, I didn't see that happen. I don't actually really know what happened because eventually, big snack as it was, I got bored and went back to my room. So what do you think it ate? Good question. I don't know. Like here, I feel like snakes would eat little rabbits and rodents, but what would have been there?

unknown 25:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 25:02

Also, the campus was there was like a really it we were living kind of in the forest, forested area. So there was a big forest area on campus, but I never saw other creatures really aside from scorpions. Yeah. I didn't get stung by one. They were pretty.

SPEAKER_01 25:18

Did snake seed scorpions?

SPEAKER_00 25:20

Well, and if it did, this was something you could see. Yeah. Like, I don't know. Yeah, good question. I should ask my friends who still live there and see if they have an idea. Yeah. Anyway, it was big but not person sized. Excellent.

SPEAKER_01 25:33

So we have snakes here, but they do. They're like gardener snakes. They're they're cute. They don't they don't eat things.

SPEAKER_00 25:44

No, I there is uh um Mississauga rattler. Ooh. Right? I think that's but I feel like it's venomous, but I've never seen one. Like I think Canada in general, but particularly where we live in the south, creatures are not very dangerous.

SPEAKER_01 26:00

Not very dangerous.

SPEAKER_00 26:01

And bugs are not very big.

SPEAKER_01 26:03

No, the bugs will make you itchy, right? Okay, they'll they'll bite you, you'll be itchy. That's that's the end. They don't carry malaria. We're so fortunate. They don't carry dengue, right?

SPEAKER_00 26:13

Like they're nothing very dangerous.

SPEAKER_01 26:15

They just really annoy us. Yeah. So I'll take it. Annoying at worst.

SPEAKER_00 26:19

So come visit Canada if you haven't or don't live here. The people and the wildlife, welcoming. Harmless. Unless you see a brown bear. Then then what play dead you said? I don't remember. Don't go somewhere where the brown bears are.

SPEAKER_01 26:37

Avoid the bears. Um, yeah. Stick to the cities, you'll be fine. Thanks for listening to another episode.

SPEAKER_00 26:47

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