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Offline Bama76

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Hyenas in alabama...I swear to you
« on: July 08, 2003, 02:27:05 PM »
I'm glad I found this forum. I love these kinda stories. Early one night about 8 or 9 years ago now I guess I saw a pair of Hyenas cross in front of my headlights. They werent no more than 25 yards in front of me. One of them stopped and looked back after it had crossed for maybe a second.
It was not a coyote or a dog or a mix of any **** thing. Take a look in National Geographic at a picture of an African Hyena...that is what I saw and that is what stopped and looked dead at me as I realized I was seeing something not normal. How in the heck they got there I haven't a clue. The nearest zoo is about 35 miles away. I never saw a report of theres escaping but who knows? I just know one of these days somebody will say "you remember old man so and so,the crazy guy, you know! the guy who had the pet Hyenas....."

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« Reply #1 on: July 08, 2003, 05:17:14 PM »
I am still waiting for Emu's to adapt and thrive in the wild here.  What a fun hunt that would be.
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« Reply #2 on: July 08, 2003, 05:57:10 PM »
Our nieghbor down the road use to raise Emus if somebody hadn't told me he did I would have never known. A widow friend of the family that lives about a mile away (straight line distance) has peacocks. I couldn't start to tell you how many people have asked me what the he** that was when they start "screaming". They are kinda like gobblers, they respond to sudden loud noises but sometimes just holler for the heck of it and they do it at the same time. Sounds like a woman screaming "help!" but kinda drawn out.
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« Reply #3 on: July 09, 2003, 08:02:50 AM »
A buddy of mine once told me that while he was out hunting in our usual area that he came across a bison. Now, this is about as far east as you can be, and bison haven't been here since pre-Columbian times. I thought he was BS'ing me until, there, on the TV news, was the local PD trying to lasso a Buffalo. It had apparently escaped from a farm across a river from where it took up residence.
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Hyenas in alabama...I swear to you
« Reply #4 on: July 09, 2003, 10:22:26 AM »
I had heard about sightings of them around Arab, AL a couple of years back.
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« Reply #5 on: July 27, 2003, 10:23:38 AM »
If we could just find a way to get the emus to eat kudzu, they'd never go hungry.
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« Reply #6 on: July 29, 2003, 11:04:46 AM »
A neighbor of ours in East Colbert County, Alabama had a bison bull and that thing would walk thru a normal barbed wire fence like it was just a spiderweb.  He was using it to raise beefaloe, but most all the neighbors around ended up with some unintentional beefaloe calves.  :grin:  He finally had to put up a stout and tall woven wire fence to keep it in.  But during its wanderings there were sure some surprised folks at times.  

Bama76, as for your hyenas, I've got an idea what you saw.  How clearly could you see the one that stopped and looked back at you for a second?  And tell me about the hair length and coloration, if you can remember, please.  What part of Bama were you in when you saw them?
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« Reply #7 on: July 29, 2003, 03:03:07 PM »
The thing was gray/brown mottled with what appeared to be mid-length hair. Not real long but not a short hair either but it was pretty hard to tell actual length. I was in Autaugaville Alabama which is about 45 minutes west of Montgomery. Does that help?? I'd love for you to give me an answer I could believe. The critters even had the smaller hind end (funnel shaped with the head as the big end) like Nat. Geo. Hyenas.

Mike
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