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Pictures of some of the Iraq wildlife

I should have taken pictures of all the wildlife I saw while in Afghanistan. I caught a tortoise while "camping" out on a hill on my first deployment, and then some of the locals caught a few wolf pups that they were raising on one of the FOB's, during my second deployment.
 
That is a jackel and he was not a happy camper. In fact he would have done some serious damage to us if he could have. It was during their breeding season and the males get very aggressive. They have to be captured and removed from the base or they could hurt people. The MP's had to shoot one that had a soldier cornered in a port a potty. Stinky port a potty in 140 degree weather....yuck!

Daenerys said:
Why are they in cages? The coyote/wolf thing makes me sad, he seems so terrified...
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I saw other animals but didn't have my camera on me at the time. I had a run in with a camel spider but I was NOT sticking around for a photo op.....*shiver*
 
josie said:
I saw other animals but didn't have my camera on me at the time. I had a run in with a camel spider but I was NOT sticking around for a photo op.....*shiver*
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I have caught the North American version of the camel spider, they are pretty cool. From a google search, I learned they are also known as wind scorpions.
 
Drizzt80 said:
Catching usually involves a cage of some sort.

D80
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josie said:
That is a jackel and he was not a happy camper. In fact he would have done some serious damage to us if he could have. It was during their breeding season and the males get very aggressive. They have to be captured and removed from the base or they could hurt people. The MP's had to shoot one that had a soldier cornered in a port a potty. Stinky port a potty in 140 degree weather....yuck!
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Oh, whoops, missed that part about catching and releasing lol...sorry...
 
I looked at the link, then did a google search and honestly, some of the pictures I saw look like them and some look different. I saw tons of these things and they all looked different. Maybe they have breed with ferral house cats over the years but none really looked like the sand cat pictures on the net. In the one picture I have it looks almost like a bobcat, the head and ears, even the markings were simalure. Then others looked more like a big house cat.
 
That would be my guess. Some of them look like your normal snuggly house kitty but bigger then a dog and a whole lot meaner.
 
The angry one in the picture was the biggest one they caught. The others were smaller then him. He was beautiful.
 
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