Disney Wildlife

[disneygirl1024]

I know this has kinda been posted before but I was wondering if anyone has been on a quiet walk back to their resort from the main building or just walking around their resort taking in the scenery and come across Disney wildlife.

We stayed in AB at POR last summer and was walking back from the main building and came across a baby snapping turtle right in the middle of the sidewalk. Had I not moved him a CM would have squished him with a golf cart. Anyway, deer, snakes, gators?

 

[real mad hatter]

Yes we stayed at fort wilderness and saw everything from deer to armadillos.

I was walking in a woodland area at Fort Wilderness one year and I saw two deer talking to each other, I was almost speechless,so I said to one of the deers " Excuse me,is this the way to Armadillo ?"

 

[epcotisbest]

Several ducks were swimming in the main pool at Wilderness Lodge the last time we were there. I thought it was strange and wondered about swimming where there was duck pee, then realized there was probably more people pee.

 

[mouse_luv]

Yeah, I doubt that. There are only about 100 of them left in the wild, and they all live in or around the Everglades. I also can't imagine that Disney would be too keen on a large, agile land predator roaming around the property and treating it as its hunting territory.

The snake thing, though, that's totally plausible. I'm surprised I don't see more venomous snakes when at Disney. I grew up in Central Florida, so I know they're there. I guess they just can't get in Disney's invisible forcefield bubble. You know, the one that keeps out the mosquitoes?

Well, that's interesting, but research by Disney has said differently as well as conservation and Florida Panther tracking...as seen
here http://www.nature.org/ourinitiatives/regions/northamerica/unitedstates/florida/placesweprotect/the-disney-wilderness-preserve.xml
and this
THE PATH OF FLORIDA PANTHER 62
1. September 1996. Born in eastern Collier County, one of a litter of three males.
2. April 11, 1998. Swims the Caloosahatchee River, escaping the swampland to the south.
3. Mid-April 1998. Stops in Fisheating Creek, home to wet prairies with many deer.
4. Mid-April 1998. Near U.S. 27 in Sebring, stops for a day under a billboard.
5. July 1998, settles into Catfish Creek State Preserve, about 5,000 acres in Polk County, about an hour east of Tampa.
6. During time at Catfish Creek, No. 62 would wander, over to Lake Kissimmee State Park . . .
7. . . . and the Disney Wilderness Preserve,
8. March 1, 2000: Radio signals show Panther 62 near the old Boardwalk and Baseball theme park, at I-4 and US 27, in swamp surrounded by bulldozers.
9. May and June 2000. Covers 200 miles, from the headwaters of the St. Johns River, to Lake Washington, a few miles outside Melbourne, before turning south.
10. June 23, 2000. In Telegraph Swamp, in Charlotte County.
11. July 24, 2000. Final transmission, radio collar conks out as 62 crosses the DeSoto County line.

^^Specifically 5-8 which is found at this webpage: http://www.cougarnet.org/seast-desc/panther62-00.htm

 

[Nemo14]

For the record, Disney Wilderness Preserve is not on WDW property actually.