It has always amused me that the tourists to the US that I’ve spoken to are often very excited to see raccoons, and disappointed if they don’t see them before they leave.

Some others I’ve noticed on the east coast of the US are blue jays and cardinals. Boy, do people get excited about those if they’ve never seen them before! Very pretty birds of course, just very easy to get used to and see as uninteresting as well.

  • AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works
    6·
    4 months ago

    Back when I worked at Disney, a subset of the Asian guests would get excited and take pictures of squirrels. Are there parts of Asia that don’t have many squirrels?

    • tiredofsametab@kbin.run
      4·
      4 months ago

      Japan doesn’t generally have squirrels like in the US. I took my wife to DC and we spent a solid 10+ minutes taking photos and videos of squirrels around the mall.

    • variants@possumpat.ioEnglish
      3·
      4 months ago

      I felt the opposite when we visited Brazil, they had these little monkeys everywhere like squirrels here but they didn’t know what a squirrel was haha, basically they had squirrels with monkey faces instead

    • Pup Biru@aussie.zone
      2·
      4 months ago

      i’m from australia and i’m always excited to see squirrels… they don’t exist here at all

      • lechatron@lemmy.todayEnglish
        1·
        4 months ago

        I have some friends in Australia and I always send them pictures of squirrels when I see them. Got TONS where I live.