Japanese Animals

Written by Mark White on January 7, 2007 - 2 Comments Download audio file (japaneseanimals mp!"

at eesti Mark and #ri$ talk a%out wild animals in Japan Mark& When you 'o on these motor$y$le trips, do you see mu$h wildlife( Eric& Well often ) ride on my off-road %ike ) ride fire-roads or lo''in' type roads*+ery small 'ra+el* roads and on these types of roads ) tend to see a lot of deer Mark& Wow, Eric& * the mountains, in this area at least, are teemin' with deer, and also $ertain times of year*now and the ne-t month or so*) think ).ll start seein' a lot of fro's and snakes*) don.t know why, may%e they $ome to the road %e$ause it is warm*on one ride may%e ).ll see fi+e or ten snakes and do/ens of fro's ) ha+e also seen a wild tanuki on$e 0 $ouple of friends*a few friends and ) stopped for a %reak and a $urious tanuki $ame and si/ed us up for a possi%le pi$ni$ of lefto+ers*for those of you who don.t know what a tanuki is*a tanuki is $alled a 1ra$$oon-do'.2 a stran'e animal that we ha+e only in Japan Mark& 0re there any other animals that we ha+e only in Japan that you ha+e seen*do you know any more( Eric& 0aah, not really, you know 3he wild pi'*the wild %oar*they are not only in Japan %ut there are $ertainly a lot of wild pi's and another $ommon animal that you find in the mountains is the Japanese ma$au Mark& )s that the* Eric& 0ah ma$a4ue, ) am sorry ma$a4ue Mark& 0ah the monkey, Eric& 5eah 3he Japanese ma$a4ue& monkeys Mark& 3here is 4uite a stran'e animal that ) ha+e seen in the mountains ) use to dri+e around a lot lookin' for wild food and ) saw a kamoshika 16hika. means deer and 1kamo. *) am not sure what that means*%ut %asi$ally the kamoshika is a sort of a hairy lookin' animal*) think in the deer family ) don.t know the #n'lish word for it )t.s a* $-e-r- somethin'* ) am not sure of the word ) don.t know how to spell it ) $an.t

remem%er how to spell it Eric& 5eah*) don.t know*) don.t know that animal ) ha+e not seen one of those Mark& Che$k it out on the internet& 7amoshika