I wonder how much ‘wilder’ our town has got since people were advised to stay at home eighteen days ago. The last time I drove anywhere other than to the supermarket I saw these cows outside the funeral home:
There were only tiny spikes of grass showing through the gravel. The cows at the corner of Lawrance Street were better off as far as both shade and grass were concerned:
Then there were three donkeys that came to visit what looks like an abandoned house – although I have seen an outside light shining there in the late afternoon:
Perhaps they were paying a courtesy call:
I imagine these cows were teaching a calf to stop at stop streets:
Meanwhile, these ones were walking purposefully towards a meeting place beyond my ken:
Anne, I am fascinated by the Urban Herd. We used to have cattle grazing on the common land opposite my flat in East London for many years, and they would often wander onto our tiny unfenced garden and eat all the daffodils. Are your cows owned by somebody local? I know that for some communities cattle has always equalled wealth and status…
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Rumour has it that these well-fed animals belong to certain municipal officials, which is why nothing is done about their presence within the suburbs. They roam wherever they like and are only occasionally herded off to who knows where, only to return a few days later. We have become used to them over the past decade or so.
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As an onlooker they certainly add some charm, and what splendid animals they are!
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We have become so used to them now that we even give them names according to their colourful patterns or other characteristics.
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Amazing how these animals are left to wander in the town without supervision 🤷
I hope that while lockdown is happening the potholes are being fixed?
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Next joke?
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Not an essential service LOL
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It’s uncanny how animals ‘take the gap’ and happily wander in urban spaces. Our baboon troop is back visiting our end of town again …. the grass is always greener! But have you seen the extraordinary scenes coming in around the world of wild animals venturing into deserted cities? And the hordes of hungry macaques marauding in the towns in Thailand where they are accustomed to people feeing them? Pumas, wild pigs, foxes, deer all venturing in for opportunistic food sources.
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I have. We saw a Brown Mongoose venture into our garden over the past few days – it is months since we last saw it. Perhaps the lack of passing traffic makes it safer for it to cross the road from wherever it lives to see what it can find in our garden.
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I expect the animals don’t miss our presence at all. Did you see the videos of the mountain goats coming into town in Wales? Wild animals are taking happy advantage of our absence!
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They are! I doubt if all the wild animals in the various game reserves give a thought to the absence of vehicles. Nature has a way of claiming back its own …
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I understand that the rats of the world definitely miss the trash that the restaurants used to put out, and other provisions of city life. And they are behaving strangely. My daughter posted a video of Mumbai with empty streets, mostly from the air via drone, but at the end is a shot of a man walking alone down a street, and a rat ambling across at the same time. It was creepy.
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Rats under any circumstances are creepy to me – ugh! 😀
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That is a creepy idea for the rats do not disappear, they must be seeking food elsewhere. I am afraid that is one animal I have little time for.
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Its amazing how quickly nature begins to recapture places once we are moved out of the equation!
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I agree with you: sometimes humans do more harm than good and our relationship with nature gets out of kilter. My hope is that once we have this COVID-19 virus under control most of us will try harder to maintain a better balance.
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I totally agree – I’m hopeful that, for some any how, ‘normal’ life will resume differently. People seem to be embracing nature again and that’s a positive move!
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I think so too.
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So the animals are taking over
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It would be interesting to have some non-domestic animals come into town. You may have noticed my comment about a Brown Mongoose making a fleeting visit to our garden earlier in the week.
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Yes. It would
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Much more interesting than my drives through town.😏
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Ah, yet you manage to find such interesting things to photograph.
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