Protecting yourself from dangerous Terrain is not that big of a deal, but there are also dangerous wild animals in New Mexico. As we drove into the town where we were staying, two coyotes crossed our paths right in the middle of the road. This made me very glad that we didn't stop and try to relieve ourselves on the side of the road. The next day we went to the park to see the historical Indian cave, and as we were driving in, we stopped and took pictures of a rattle snake. I was slightly ticked at the fam for not warning me that there might be rattlers where we were going to be hiking. On our way back from the historical Indian cave, we kept being asked if we saw the bear. I guess there was a bear in the middle of the path at one point and one family didn't make it back because of him. My guess is that the bear ate the whole family. Another animal that they have in New Mexico but is very rare is the squirrel. My little niece got very excited when she saw the squirrel. They are so rare that at the park gift store they sell postcards of little squirrels so you can remember what they look like.
Maybe the squirrel ate the family and blamed it on the bear. i mean, really, when you see a bear, you stay away, right? you're not going to expect it to eat food from your hand or anything. so how would they get eaten by a bear? but a squirrel just sits around being all cute, until you get close to feed it, or worse, it hides in a tree and then attacks from above.
if a squirrel ate a whole family, that squirrel would grow to be the size of a bear. maybe that is where the confusion set in.
Think about it, it's a squirrel - it buries the bodies and digs them up when it gets hungry. so it wouldn't necessarily grow that big. plus they have a crazy metabolism. they're like a kid with ADHD on crack, all running up and down trees and along powerlines and all that crazy stuff that any normal animal can't do. they burn those calories off fast.
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