FOUR JAVELINAS RAIDING our PATIO TONIGHT: EXTREME CLOSE-UPS of COLLARED PECCARIES! скачать в хорошем качестве

FOUR JAVELINAS RAIDING our PATIO TONIGHT: EXTREME CLOSE-UPS of COLLARED PECCARIES!

A CHAOTIC GOODBYE to the javelinas which have periodically visited us over the years -- heard the herd knocking over clay pots in the backyard. (See a javelina suddenly tune me in, as if for the first time, at the 4:30 mark in this video.) I filmed these four javelinas from just outside our wide-open patio door, without a blind, and without a zoom* lens: there were several instances (before I turned on the camera) when it seemed they would all burst past me and into the house. *Instead of zooming with the NIkon P6000's [worthless] 4x zoom, I sat next to the herd -- close enough to place the camera over their heads. NOTE: we've never fed our javelinas before, but in THIS case, finding them ransacking our patio on the EVE of our MOVE from Tucson, we made an exception -- for the camera, and for posterity. (AND because we are ARTISTS, and cannot help but enjoy our artistic license -- one peccary at a time...) Once ... we had to chase as many thirteen javelinas out of our backyard in the middle of the night -- after hearing them uprooting and breaking ceramic pots (and anything else that wasn't tied down) ... On that occasion, the patriarch stood his [intimidating] ground until the last of his 'herd' -- a minuscule baby javelina the size of a football -- had successfully been 'evacuated' up a ramp (which we installed during the 'herding') and out the back gate. On another night, I chased the same noisy herd of thirteen towards the front gate with a broom, only to have them turn on me [en masse] when we all found the gate ... closed ... (they had squeezed into the yard, one by one, earlier in the evening): I have this video, somewhere--shooting over my shoulder--being chased by the herd in the moonlight ... my goosebumps of fright-in-flight feeling as if they were the size of golf balls! Javelinas can be dangerous animals, and have been known to [rarely] injure people with their sharp tusks: feeding them is not good for them in the long term, of course --though I have mixed feelings about this, having been so close to them during this filming session ... musk and all. We'll MISS our WILD Tucson, Arizona frontier and the gazillions of creatures we've gotten to know so well here. See one of my rattlesnake capture/releases on this YouTube channel:    • RELEASING a Large WESTERN DIAMONDBACK RATT...   Thanks for watching, and please comment if you like this video! - Andrew