This topic is perhaps more for those JET’s living in the inaka. What are some of your animal encounter stories, big or small?
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After moving into my large, two-story traditional house, I found a couple of small yamori geckos on the inside of my house hanging out on the windows. Alarmed, I asked my supervisor what to do, but he said to leave them alone as they’ll keep the insects in check. So I always had a few of these yamori geckos patrolling the inside and outside of my house like some private security guards.
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My two-story house was so large that I only ever used the first floor, which was where the bedroom was located. For a two-week period, in the middle of the night, I heard an animal upstairs running around like a dog or cat with the zoomies. I could never figure out what it was or how it was getting inside. Whenever I went upstairs, I could never see it. However, at the end of the two-week period, it mysteriously stopped.
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Lots of hiking trails around my rural town. I was warned about bears, inoshishi, and macaques. I never encountered the first two, but I was swarmed by troop of macaques while hiking with a friend. It was like a scene out of Planet of the Apes with some jumping along the rocky cliff to our right and the forest ravine to our left. They mostly left us alone except for this large one that tried a few charges at us to intimidate us. My Canadian bear-aware experience kicked in and we got ourselves out of that situation safely, but it was tense.
So what are some of your animal encounter stories while living on JET?
by newlandarcher7