Animals And Creatures Seen In Wdw

[tassma]

While at WDW our family has seen mice, ducks, bears, pigs, chipmunks, dogs, and tiggers. We even stood in line to get their autographs and paid to eat with them. I guess its not too surprising that there are other animals there as well.

 

[Yen Sid]

Some very nice pictures, I wish we would have had our camera ready a few years ago. We went out on the balcony early in the morning to smoke and drink coffee and seen the bobcat at SSR, it would have been a great shot but we were not awake yet.

 

[Kaler131]

While at WDW our family has seen mice, ducks, bears, pigs, chipmunks, dogs, and tiggers. We even stood in line to get their autographs and paid to eat with them. I guess its not too surprising that there are other animals there as well.

Yeah, us too!: What suckers we are...LOL!!

 

[swtnikki]

Subbing to see pics.

 

[eeyoresnr]

 

[treehugnmama]

I live in canada and we don't hang out with gators except in the ZOO!!!! I gues the unkown is scary BUT THEY ARE GATORS!!!!!! I can't believe more people are worried about corn snakes and harmless spiders ( can't say i like them either) then the man eating gators. Are they not a concern?? Won't they come out of the water and travel the paths? What keeps them from snacking on children? I have to say we stayed at okw in feb and I had no idea that there were gators in WDW.

Now I am scared to book treehouse villas with little kids. The only thing that freaks me out are sharks. I have never seen a shark walking around disney but someone tell me more about the gators. did i mention i am scared

 

[TiggerGuy67]

I live in canada and we don't hang out with gators except in the ZOO!!!! I gues the unkown is scary BUT THEY ARE GATORS!!!!!! I can't believe more people are worried about corn snakes and harmless spiders ( can't say i like them either) then the man eating gators. Are they not a concern?? Won't they come out of the water and travel the paths? What keeps them from snacking on children? I have to say we stayed at okw in feb and I had no idea that there were gators in WDW.

Now I am scared to book treehouse villas with little kids. The only thing that freaks me out are sharks. I have never seen a shark walking around disney but someone tell me more about the gators. did i mention i am scared

WDW will remove any gators that get big enough to be a threat. But you can't remove them all. Where ever you find fresh water in Florida, especially this far south, there will be gators. They're a really important part of the food chain and as long as you keep your distance from the big guys, you're all set.

People are not so much afraid of the corn snakes as they are of the venomous coral snakes which look very similar. Remember - "If red touches yellow, kill a fellow, if red touches black, friend of jack (or venom lack)" As for the spiders, there are some nasty looking ones down there and I'm afraid of all of em.

 

[zackiedawg]

I live in canada and we don't hang out with gators except in the ZOO!!!! I gues the unkown is scary BUT THEY ARE GATORS!!!!!! I can't believe more people are worried about corn snakes and harmless spiders ( can't say i like them either) then the man eating gators. Are they not a concern?? Won't they come out of the water and travel the paths? What keeps them from snacking on children? I have to say we stayed at okw in feb and I had no idea that there were gators in WDW.

Now I am scared to book treehouse villas with little kids. The only thing that freaks me out are sharks. I have never seen a shark walking around disney but someone tell me more about the gators. did i mention i am scared

Though they look scary, and they have on rare occasion bitten and even killed people, alligators are generally very non-aggressive and are much more inclined to run away from people before they're even spotted. They do not attack people naturally...most attacks that have occurred have been one of three scenarios: 1. People being stupid, 2. Alligators in drought conditions starving and desperate, 3. Alligators defending nests.

The people being stupid category is most common. Sitting on the bank of a canal, completely still for 30-40 minutes, not paying attention to the water where a very large alligator is sitting. Jumping in alligator infested waters while drunk on a dare with friends. Standing waste deep in murky alligator infested water trimming marsh plants for hours. (All three of those, BTW, resulted in the last 3 alligator deaths in Florida).

I have lived around alligators most of my life, and find them to be some of the least aggressive animals I know. I've never seen one jump up onto a walking path and randomly attack a person (only one time have I ever heard of such a thing, where one did jump up after a dog being walked by a man...and that was during a drought when the alligators were known to be getting desperate...even then, it was the dog being attacked). I've watched alligators submerge and pop up 30 feet farther away when people walk too close. Respect, as with any large animal, is required...it CAN hurt you, even if it doesn't necessarily want to...so don't push your luck. Stay away from the shoreline when you see an alligator, keep a healthy respect for the larger ones that could pull you in if they wanted to, and listen to warning signs to know if you are approaching a nest (they will hiss, and sometimes snap their jaws...and make very noticeable movement in your direction if you're walking towards something they are protecting).

You are likely in more peril dealing with bears, mating elk/caribou, moose, or large male deer, all of which can be distinctly more aggressive and more willing to attack, and capable of inflicting serious damage on you! Plus, they don't generally live in water, and only occasionally come up on land like gators...they're on land all the time, right where you are!

Really, don't worry about gators, especially at Disney. They are not aggressive animals, and Disney is always monitoring for larger ones to be removed before they become capable of any real harm. If Disney says 'don't swim', then don't! Otherwise, enjoy the awesome beauty and power of a real-life dinosaur that has survived millions of years!

 

[swtnikki]

 

[kim]

Here's a picture of an alligator we saw in Frontierland a few years ago---I wonder if it's the same one another poster saw behind the turkey leg stand?? We were on the bridge behind the turkey leg stand. It was around 2004 I think.

 

[A_NY_Outlaw]

One from our 08 trip...

 

[Bagheera23608]

What a great thread!!! And I am very happy to see cool heads prevailing here. To me, the difference between a non-venomous and venomous snake is easy to spot. Their heads and eyes are shaped much differently. Altho most people, don't give them that much of a look. I was dismayed to hear people feed the gators. That is so bad for the gators, you're just endangering them, not doing them any favors. People just don't think.

While possums are some of my favorite animals, I can always tell when I am back in the South. You start seeing dead armadillos on the side of the road. The poor things are just about blind. When I lived in FL, two came almost right up to me b/c they never even saw me. We also had those amazing spiders! Even if you're not scared of spiders, so to speak, those banana ones can get HUGE and will give even the stoutest heart pause, !

We're staying at SoG on the ground floor and I hear they have some friendly turkeys. I hope we come across them and just about everything else on here. 'Cept the roaches. (Palmetto bugs always sounded to me like trying to put a nice name on something not nice, lol.)

 

[of the seas]

Duckies going to the Boardwalk bakery in the morning!

 

[of the seas]

Frontierland

 

[of the seas]

The birdie on our Boardwalk balcony

 

[ntsammy5]

 

[A_NY_Outlaw]

One from our 08 trip...

 

[Jasperann]

I love all these pictures... I can't wait to take my own and share them with everyone.

 

[disneyfan4u]

I really like this thread. Anyone have anything new to add?

 

[treehugnmama]

We went to cbr in september and after readingthis thread I was a bit freaked out....checking room for snakes etc. On our last day there we were walking on the path were it goes under the bridge with our two little ones is strollers and my husband points in the garden along the path way there was a monster of a black snake coiled up and it was thick like really thick. We assumed it was a water mocasin from looking at pics before we went. We also saw lots of tiny lizard creatures.

On day two of the same trip the clear cut the gardens in front of our room. took down all the trees and everything. My husband was outside and the gardeners said you the snake guy? Dh said NO and gut outta there quick lol.

We went to OKW two weeks ago and I was habby to report NO CREATURES