American Reacts to AMAZING Animals Found in Norway
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- čas přidán 5. 06. 2023
- As an American I am not at all familiar with the types of animals you can find in Norway. Given the vast and beautiful geography found in Norway I am very excited to learn about the different kinds of exotic Norwegian animals you can encounter. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
Musk oxes are native to norway, but our stock died out and hence it was reintroduced with imported beasts.
No they are not ;)
@@bjrnhagen2853: I don't know why you would say that. We did have native muskox in Norway until they went extinct. The muskox we have today have been introduced and thus not native, but we did have native muskox.
@@bjrnhagen2853 Yes they are. Det er gjort fossile funn av moskusfe i Norge. Funnene viser at arten eller en svært nær slektning må ha levd i Norge under siste istid, men den regnes altså ikke som en naturlig art i Norge lenger, selv om den er både ønsket og beskyttet av norske myndigheter.
@@trond-ivaringebrigtsen2077 they lived here 30 000 years ago. Died out before people came so no they are not regarded as native.
@@viking_nor: Well, let's put it this way; muskox are more native to Norway than Norwegians are.
Musk ox are the last of the great Ice Age animals. They lived together with mammoths and woolly rhinoceroses during the last ice age here in Sweden and Norway
We also have wolves and bears 🐻
Golden eagles, sea eagles, otters, 🦫 beavers, 🦌 deers, martens, orcas, grouse, badgers, falcons, lemmings, harbor seals (steinkobber) minks, red foxes, soles, different owls 🦉, hares, herons, bats, golden plovers, squirrels, limbs, grey seals etc etc etc 🥰❤️
I saw a golden eagle on my last trip to the high mountains 😊 It was Majestic 👍
@@hwplugburz Awesome 🥰
@@nissenusset4134 there're bats in Norway?
didn't know that...
@@Contentious_Point_ Yes... there are bats in Norway 😊 Even in the cities.....
I've seen them many times, and also up close. Oslo, Kristiansand etc. etc.
Minks are not native to Norway though and are wreaking havoc on the birdlife,
luckily the mink population have being reduced drastically over the last years through extensive hunting and we are seeing for example Shelduck's that was extinct many places in Norway reappear.
and yeah, there is definitively bats in Norway... have 3 of em nesting in my barn/garage and they love to make their popping on my car...
Not the "dove" area, which is not a name of any area here. But the Dovre area, which is a bit south of Trondheim, and not very far north.
The wolverine is extremely shy, so you don't have to worry about wolverine attacks. I've only seen one once, and they are very recognizable by their gait.
I think we only have about 700 of them left.
@@RonnyWilhelmsen1001 It could be less. Statistics from last year suggest around 500, and there's below 50 breeding couples each year, so numbers are decreasing. Even though the wolverine is technically protected, they still allow some to be hunted.
@@AudunWangen yes you are right. Looks like they are dying out.
I never seen one, but that is good
My uncle said they look like small bears with hemorrhoids when they run
I have four Deer in my garden and some large Birds of Prey and many other Birds. I live just outside Oslo. The wood are full of Moose. They can be dangerous during the Mating Time. The Meat taste good.
I know we like to hear that Norway is so special, and that America doesn't have anything like this, but most of these animals do exist in Alaska and Canada (with some slight variations from the Eurasian and American versions). But compared to the urban mainland USA, these are quite special.
Yeah definitely
Right. I know they too have Musk Ox. In either Canada or Alaska. We got ours from Greenland.
Yes we eat moose. My brother-in-law hunts moose every fall and start of winter. But they are not allowed to hunt after december 23.
We also have killer whale in Norway. Me and my sister-in-law were in a small boat fishingh and we were hunted by a killer whale. We were lucky to just barely escape . 🥵
A friend of mine regularly spends month long hikes through the Norwegian mountains. Never had any dangerous encounters at all. Biggest risk is probably from insects (tick born disease) - or getting physically injured from a misstep.
However, one of my teachers did a ski treck across Svalbard back in the 80s and needed to scare off a very nosy polar bear by firing several shots from his .44 magnum revolver. He said that one was a "close call".
I used to be quite an out doors person (Norwegian), and yeah same. Mostly it was worrying about ticks. Or asshole mosquitos. Had a few "almost close calls" with moose. But not it any dangerous way, i felt. Just got out of the way, or backtracked. Because... i didn't want to die.
@@thanossnap4170 Wise move friend, very wise! If they see you as a threat, you can't do a whole lot to convince them to leave you alone :s
I’ve met several bears and wolfs
My parents live southeast of Oslo and over there we have ALOT of moose. Just last year, we had a mom moose and 3 very large younglings just outside their garden. People stopped in their cars to take their pictures. They were trying to cross the road. Even though we see them often here, they're just so amazing, we have to stop whatever we're doing to just enjoy the sights...from a safe distance of course ;)
Iv'e encountered the muskox on Dovre.
There's a railroad going over the mountain, and too often one or more dies being struck by the train, and its not an accident.
'The ox' challenge the trains and charge them head first. very territorial.
And the wolverine is just a nerfed version of your honeybadger.
If muskox try to headbutt a train off its tracks, I think I understand why muskox went extinct to begin with.
@@jeschinstad hahah
The Greenland shark does swim up and down the coast of Norway, remarkably they live around 350 years, unless eaten by the Icelanders. The scientists think the species can live more than 500 years.
The moose is very common in most of Norway, and yes, it's a big animal.
Every year it's a lot of accidents between cars or motorcycles and moose, and unfortunally it usually don't end well for the moose.
But sometimes even the drivers get hurt or even killed.
I'm retired now, but in my job as a train engineer I have unfortynally hit a lot of moose, and train vs moose, it always ends tragically for the moose.
Moose is the most feared animal by Norwegian drivers. They are large enough to make significant damage on cars and drivers. You could say the same about bears and muskox, but they are far less numerous and bears are perhaps smart enough to avoid road traffic.
@@hemmper The problem with the moose is that its feet are so tall so if you hit it the body will come straight through the wind shield. A bear would most likely just damage the bumper/grill (ofc depending on what type of vehicle you drive).
Well, since I live in Northern Norway, I can confirm that there are a lot of moose, eagles and raindeers. I can see the three land animals every day. The moose are in my garden and in the nearby woods. The eagle flies over my house every day. The raindeer I usually see if I go hiking or drive to my parents house. The whale can be spotted if you search for it, but not every day though. And I live in a city. 😊
Wolverines are an extremely tough cookie, not even BEARS wanna mess with em. However, even the Wolverines keep clear of the Moose, those can get hit by a car at speeds that totals said car, and they only get pissed off. They are ridiculously tough, and REALLY tasty.
Where I live, we are used to seeing moose every day.
As children we used to chase them when they came down to our settlement.
We must stop the Hunting after endangered animals like the Lynx.
I don't think it is allowed to hunt the Lynx, but yeah thats about the only cat I like ... here in Norway :-) those are cool animals.
@@arcticblue248 You can hunt Lynx from February 1 to Mars 31. You can kill 24 of this rare large Cats here in Norway.
@@arnehusby1420 Damn ... that sucks ... to be honest.
@@arcticblue248 Yes. This Hunting must be stopped.
I completely agree, any animals that are remotely close to endangered should not be in quota, relocation if must be.
i remember when my family was on a roadtrip over dovrefjellet and we saw an musk ox charge a mobile car and knock it over. those animals have such streght and i think they are very majestic in a way
weird it didn't mention dolphins, I imagine that would come as a surprise to most people
well, they arent there all year lon, they are just summer tourist
Orcas are related to Dolphins and not whales.
We have porpoises, dolphins are way rarer (unless you count orcas as dolphins).
@@hawkey21 when I moved to andøya the first animals I saw was what I thought was a flock of dolphins, but I guess they might have been porpoises insted. thanks for leting me know, I didn't know there was a diference :)
@@mimicray might have been white-beaked dolphins, but porpoises are much more common, and from afar they look similar
I have roe deer and badgers in my garden, plus squirrels and hundreds of birds, big and small. Around the village we have regular deer, reindeer, moose, bear, wolverine, wolf, lynx, fox (regular red and the arctic), reindeer, and musk ox.
It's extremely rare that people are attacked by any of these animals, since they tend to avoid humans, but you might run into any of them as soon as you step outside of the villages. This mostly because we're very outdoorsy, so the chance to see them is a lot higher than in places where people don't spend time in nature.
There is also a colony of Bison near Misvær in northern Norway. Well there was, haven't seen them in a while when traveling by there in a few years maybe the farmer sold them.
As someone who is living at the coast of Finnmark we run into reindeer quite often, they are in our gardens eating the summerflowers and when you are out walking, these are ofcourse the domesticated ones that are at summergrassing in my commune, however the wild one you find further south at around Dovre ....
Wolverine is perhaps the only amimal to look a grizzly bear in the face, call it a whimp and then beat the carp out of before taking the grizzly's daily hunt and leaving
The moose are so gracefull... And they are EVERYWHERE. And they taste realy good.
Long before fur was in fashion, Norway was fur traders. Back when fur was used mainly to keep warm.
So a lot of these animals have been hunted for a very long time. Luckily fur is no longer needed to keep warm. So we are going hard against the fur trade and trying our best to increase the population of these animals.
Which I am very happy about.
Killer whales, seals, dolphins, large euraisian eagle-owl, wolves, foxes, just to name a few more :)
From my friends Summer House in the South West, the fjord is full of life. Dolphins and some times Kille Whales we might see from the Boat or from the View from the House.
I saw Musk ox while hiking last week. Its wise to give them space. Cool experience. We also bumped in to a couple of Moose and yes they make great burgers.
I have a friend who worked at Svalbard as a chef. He showed up to work and could not understand why his boss yelled at him for coming to work and was so upset with him. He thought he had done something wrong yesterday or showed up at the wrong time. Nope! His boss was mad at him coming in to work because just as he was going to work there was a polar beer running around were he lived. There had been sent out warnings of a sighting, and luckily a helicopter was sent out to scare it away from the populated place, but my friend had not gotten the message. He saw the helicopter but not the beer and arrived safely. They were relived and had a huge laugh about it xD
Fun fact... mooses was once considered as riding animal for the army .... they never got them to don't be afraid of gunshots ... so they stopped experimenting with that.
If polar bears in Svalbard counts as ''in Norway'' then polar bears in Alaska counts as ''in USA'' too
Yes since Svalbard is part of Norway, and Alaska is a part of the USA.
Definitely counts. The video (and article) didn't say animals that exist *only* in Norway though did it? Nor did it specify everywhere in Norway.
@@Arbaaltheundefeated In the video he says that we have them in Norway and they don't have them in USA. But they do have them in USA if we have them in Norway👍
@@MrMafiks Yeah, you have polar bears in USA 👍
And Tyler!! Yes, we do eat moose 😊
I liked when he said “ reindeer’s must be common in Norway because you make them into hamburgers and sausages”😂🤣🤣😂😂🤣🤣😂😂
the white-tailed eagles are everywhere. I see them all the time
Some friends of my family managed to convince their Austrian relatives that a photo of a polar bear sculpture in their garden was a live pet...
🤣 🌲🏡 🐻❄️ 😱
Love from Norway 🇳🇴
Oh and might add some in my family are natives and has a raindeer hurd. We get alot of meet from them. Dried Raindeer heart and tongue is a delicacy 😊
A fun fact about the reindeer is that only female reindeers keep their antlers over the winter. The bulls drop their antlers in the autumn, after the heat while the female keeps their longer to be able to protect their calves. That means that the reindeers pulling Santas sleigh are all female.
Edit: In Sweden we got the densest population of the elk, known as moose to North Americans, in the world with about 320,000 animals of which roughly 80,000 are killed each year during the annual hunt. The population has been lowered from more than 400,000 because of the large forrest industry since they were eating lots of planted trees.
Edit: The muskox is native to Scandinavia but died out, but have been brought back from Poland I think. Another impresive animal is the Visent, or European Bison.
Hunting is realy big here in Norway, at least in the area were i live. We hunt and eat almost all kinds of animals from the deer family, but there is some rules for when you are allowed to hunt and how many animals you can shoot per year. There is also many people who hunt certain types of birds and even beaver amongst other things.
For me as a nord he American nature and maritime life is absolutely amazing! Anything from giant trees to desert landscapes with it's unique flora and fauna, i where just blown away as a little kid whan i did wath nature documantaries in TV and photos relatives broght home.
Thére is an white tail Eagle reservate on an island not far from where i live, on can spot them occationaly ower the mainland but they use to fly on pretty high altitude so it can be hard to identify them from other similar types of birds if one can not get a grip on the actual size of it. Ospreys are more common, rare but there was an active Osprey territory on a small lake not far from my fathers farmhose where one could see them hunting. I really love birds!
I see white tailed eagles all the time around here, falcons and snow owls too.
The eagles will sometimes take lambs. They are huge.
I have seen the Musk oxes in
Trøndelag, close to Namsos area, not easy to see them, they are very shy.😊
Karibu is a common term for North American and Greenlandic subspecies of the species reindeer (Rangifer tarandus), also called reindeer. There are several in Alaska…
There are Wolves here too. But the debate is fierce whether we should hunt them or not.
The debate isn't whether they should be hunted. The debate is whether they should be made extinct or not
Not really, the debate is if they should be exterminated or not...
Basically SP want them *all* home from norwegian territory.
And anyone that wants to enter a coalition with them therefore has to accept reducing their numbers (despite the Norwegian population already being dangerously low in terms of genetic diversity)
While most of the other parties wants to keep a population at a sustainable level, although due to how politicized that topic has become the fact that the population already is unsustainably low has ended up being drowned out of the public consciousness, and everyone have their own often quite unscientific ideas of what that might be...
@@avlinrbdig5715Exactly my point.
It's embarrassing that we even have such a debate...
Also, you posted while I was writing my post...
I have to disagree with you tho.
It is possible to negotiate with SP too. The question is what what kind of deal is being made.
At the moment the populations of wild predators in Norway are at an unsustainably low level.
Meaning that the level of in breeding is so immense that they will degrade and eventually be wiped out from disease.
There is very little talk from anyone in terms of actually increasing the populations of wildlife and increasing their habitat( which would be required) .
@@Luredreier also.
There is an overweight in the media supporting extinction.
This doesn't represent the majority of Norwegians however, but there is alot of money coming from norwegian forest and game hunting organisation and farmers organisations to portray it this way. Lobbyism.
The only dangerous animal on that list is the Polar bear. Muskoxen are chill as long as you don’t get too close. There have been fatalities, but it’s rare. Stay far away if you want to take a picture. I had a gigantic moose chase me once in the woods, a bit scary but they’re mostly more afraid of you than you are of them.
As a Norwegian who used to work at an animal park and Lived on a mountain for years, I find this video quite amusing XD
On my way to high school, we used to drive through the forest. We would regularly see Reindeer herds, Moose and sheep cross the street or run through the woods on my way to school
Dovrefjell also known as Dovregubbens Hall aka The Hall of the Mountain King. Is where the Muskox mainly live and they are quite peaceful unless threatened or provoked.
Edit: With the ice shelves melting the Northern animals are moving south so there are going to Polar Bears on the mainland I’m not to long.
I sometimes have eagles above the house here, you know they're coming by the seagulls squawking xD But we also have Orcas and porpoises passing by my house now and then :3
We have lemmings in Norway. I saw 2 in a swimming pool once, weird. Cute.
It's not that different from America, you can find all of those in US and Canada too.
I was practice driving with my dads car with him teaching me. We were going through E16 to get to Bømlo. And bom out of nowhere this massive 700 kg to 800 kg moose came out of nowhere and I almost hit it but managed to steer away because the road was wide enough. Those mooses are no joke, they are quite common too, I probably encountered them at least 5 times, and I'm only 16 years old.
We also have brown bears, wolves and deer.. and nisser. 😄
"Where is the Norwegian highlands"
Good question lol. Basically it's everything a couple of miles inlands. There's also large flat areas in the east of Norway's ballsack.
There's wild reindeers as far south as Telemark! :) (Which area is also mostly highlands/almost mountainous)
Fun fact about Puffins.
when they were filming the new star wars movies, they couldnt get rid of all the puffins in the shots they filmed in Ireland, and they couldnt have puffins in the star wars universe.. and thats how Porgs were born, super imposed on top of the puffins.
A reindeer tried to mate with my motorcycle once. We almost got into a fight. I’m glad I had my full motorcycle attire on. Helmet included. 😱
must be rough having to care for all the motorcycle babies by yourself
@@smievil Fortunately it didn’t result in a pregnancy
I have seen one of these eagles relatively close and they're absolutely *GINORMOUS.*
With their wings out, they're "taller" than even a very tall adult human being by a good margin.
They can catch and fly off with even sheep (not sure how old or how well they fly then but they can do it)
Here in Norway we do hunt moose a lot, and the meat is very nice. The annual moose hunt is for many the very highpoint of the year, as many says it here "There is the moose hunt, and then there is the rest of the year". It is a great part of the culture here and it is very important to many, it is a social event as much as a hunt really. The population of moose is very high in some areas and so hunting is needed to avoid over population and damages to the forest. The moose is in fact the most dangerous animal we have, they are extremely strong and when threatened they will rear up like a horse and strike at you with their front legs, or turn their back to you and kick with their hind legs, both potentially lethal if they hit. But most injuries related to moose happen when they are hit by cars, since they are so tall with long legs the car tend to knock the legs out from underneath it and then the torso moves over the bonnet and either enters the cabin of the car through the windshield or crushes the roof down onto the driver. The wolverine is rather rare and shy, but they are fierce. In a handbook for trappers written in Canada it was stated that if you got a wolverine entering your area you had only two choices, kill the wolverine or move out, it will otherwise ruin the hunt completely since they can be extremely destructive. they are among the strongest animals there is compared to body size.
Missing some killer whale, northern goshawk, common buzzard, eurasian sparrowhawk etc.
In recent years they has been a reintroduction program in Britain for the White-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla), they have an impressive wingspan hence the nickname flying barn doors.
Yea their wingspan is absolutely massive, the largest among the currently living eagles if I'm not mistaken.
A few days ago i had one 2-3 meters above me, when it's this close you really feel the size of it. Was like a good damned Pterodactyl...
if you want to see those eagles they are like a few of them in
Åsvær
Park some islands 5 hour boat ride to get there, last summer i was there in our cabin and it is like 20 nest's there :D was funn might be more than 20 aswell, they where all over the place
12:00 I live in the middle-ish part of Norway in a place with many houses and cars driving by, and i have seen Reindeer in the backyard at least 50 times throughout my relatively short life. Very common.
Just a side step: The white-throated dipper is Norway's national bird
You would be surprised to see the huge 2 tons Sunfishes in Norway.
*Dovre area (typo, they forgot the r)
Yes we Norwegians eat Moose, and it is yummy. A bit on the lean side, but use a good amount of butter and you got yourself a nice burger👍🏼
I have treveling in America for 3 week and you have Bicon or Buffalo in Norden part of America. In a nasjonal park.
We had one guy who reported seeing one here on mainland Norway, it was credible enough that government sent a helicopter and used local hunters to search for it, was said it was seen tracks but still it is recognised today that it probably was a loose big white dog. But in the 50's there was shot a polarbear near Vadsø I think ... so it is possible.
I've skimmed the comments and would just like to specify that it should probably say "introduced to the Dovre area", which is actually in southern-Norway, but next to Midt-Norge (Mid-Norway). South of Trøndelag.
3:14
Only Svalbard.
It's a *big* event the few years where one makes it to our mainland.
5:26
"Dovre" not "Dove", the text is full of little mistakes like that.
Basically our own population went extinct, so we reintroduced the Canadian population.
They used to be native to all of Europe during the ice age.
12:07
The Musk ox and the wild raindeers live in southern Norway in the highlands, not in northern Norway.
But domesticated raindeers are found up north.
There's also a wild population on Svalbard I believe.
You find wild reindeer in Dovre too .... there is a hunt for those every now and then too ... like a quota for it.
@@arcticblue248 Yes, I said as much in the post above.
What I said is that there's only *polar bears* in Svalbard.
me and my family who lives a bit south drive north every summer to my grandmas cabin and we often see moos and eagles while driving, and yes we eat moos and reindeer meat at least my family does it
Norway has three types of Eagle. The King Eagle, the Sea Eagle(white tail) and the Fish Eagle.
I think this endanger animals is not just Norway but the world, we are invading their area of living and haunting a lot of this animals.
If you want to see puffins, they are commen on Iceland and the Faroe Island too
The Wolverine is a bit like the honeybadger, a giant ferret.
14:23 I don't know if it's the same in Norway, but at least here in Sweden, hunting Moose is almost required to keep the population stable.
In my hometown there is raindeer everywhere in the summer. My mother hates them because they eat all her plants in the garden 🤣
You have plenty of wolverine in Alaska ;-)
I came across a moose in the forest once, not too far out of town. I actually got a little scared, because it's size dwarfed me and I'm a pretty tall guy. I was stood just a few meters away, I didn't realize he was there eating berries. He just looked at me in a curious way, and slowly walked away. We often refer to the moose as the king of the woods, and when I saw him I thought that made sense.
You asked if reindeer is common in Norway? Wild reindeer is not very common. Only found in the high mountains in southern part of norway. But the sami people have them in large heards that roams free around. I live in Tromsø in northern part of Norway where there are a lot of reindeer. Some periods of the year (mostly spring/summer) I can see small groups of 10-20 of them daily while driving to and from work. They are wandering around in the residential areas (not on the Tromsø island itself where the city is located, but on the large neighbor island Kvaløya). They have become very used to people and cars. They walk along the walk / cycle path beside the road, and they hardly move away when you walk towards them. But if you try to touch them they will run away. Some even have got so custom to the traffic on the roads that they stop on the side of the road and wait for the car to stop to let them go over to the other side. We have some large grass fields between the road and the beach where they like to spend some time. In the winter they usually go up into the mountains again, so we dont see so much of them in that time of the year.
"How common are [Eurasion moose]"? Well, if you drive a car in Norway outside of the biggest towns (Oslo, Bergen, Trondheim) you will see signs that warns you that there are common moose crossings. Pro tip: most likely to get hit/see them during sunrise/sunset. I bet you see moose on or close to Norwegian roads more often than you see raccoons ravaging US trash cans.
I had 70 deer on our cattle’s feeding ground one spring🙄🤦♀️ A hard winter had left them starving, so I stood 20 feet from them and they just looked at me, and continued eating.
can't imagine walking into a big humpbackwhale when visiting oslo
It's so many animals that wasnt mentioned in this video that lives in Norway, also fom many Norwegians it is more common to eat moose meat than raindeer meet especialy for those who hunt. (Sami people that has raindeer has a much bigger chanse to eat raindeer meat).
Tyler doesn't remember that Alaska is part of the United States. He also doesn't read the comment section. I find that very frustrating. He would learn a lot if he did.
As a child, i almost ran into a moose with my bike as i was headed back home from a friend. I had to pass a forest and it was fall and all of a sudden a moose came out and almost crashed into me. Love from Norway ❤
Dont be scared, be amazed :)
If you drive in northern parts of Norway and Sweden you might find a couple of reindeer by the road. So, yeah, it is possible.
And the moose... they are always bigger than you expect. Even if you sit in a bus the sight of a moose steals your breath away at its size. And yes, we eat moose. Their taste is good.
Whale meat is interesting as well. Had it two weeks ago when its price was lowered. It smelt a bit like fish, but the meat was like red meat, kinda. Had a lot of protein and I felt filled after just a couple of bites.
There is also brown bears and wolfs and beavers
That’s a brown bear not Wolverine….. ❤ from Norway 🇳🇴
Alaska has polar bears🙂
Seagulls summer time when they got eggs/kids they are crazy af
A moose once bit my sister...
No realli! She was Karving her initials on the moose with the sharpened end of an interspace toothbrush given her by Svenge-her brother-in-law- an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian movies: "The Hot Hands of an Oslo Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Molars of Horst Nordfink"...
Mynd you, moose bites Kan be pretti nasti...
Muskox live on the border with Sweden and walk to and back. Muskox was extinkt many many years ago. Wolverine can take down a moose. Most of the landbased animals exept Polar Bear lives in Sweden too. In Sweden we shoot about 100.000 moose every year. Alaskan moose is bigger but Sweden has the biggest population in the world.
We have quite abit of sea-eagles in my town, and around ... not unusual to see 5-6 on a single trip if you like ... we have quite alot of birds of preys tough but biggest is the sea eagle here...
Its safe to go camping in Norway nothing dangerous rlly live in Norway other than polar bears. So when we go camping we doesent worry about anything
The fauna is much weirder in the USA. Crocodiles, Pumas, supersized moose, Aligators, snapping turtles, Aligator snapping turtles, Parrots, Grizzly Bears, Black bears, poisonous snakes and spiders, Etc.Etc.Etc. Compared to that. the Norwegian Fauna I am sat do say becomes very limited.
The main reason why the big predators are endangered in Norway is because of human interactions. When humans started sheep herding and agriculture in Scandinavia they basically eradicated most of the big predators, similar to what has happened in the UK. For instance the gray wolf was considered extinct in Norway and Sweden until the 1970s. Only after people stopped hunting them so much and they started protecting them did they return to our borders through Russia and Finland.
Even today those who has grown up with sheep herding or agriculture are mostly for hunting of big predators such as wolves and lynx. There is still only a small amount of big predators allowed in our countries, and therefore they are somewhat inbred (especially the grey wolf) and on the verge of extinction.
The Wolverine (Jerv, in Norwegian), these guys you deffo dont wanna meet , although the chanse of running into one is remote. they are very shy and usually will stay as far away from humans as possible. sizewise it's not to far off that of a badger , somewhat bigger but not to much, and it's got a really bad temper.
Raindeer are smaller than regular deers, and they taste delicius. I usually have raindeer roast for xmas dinner. 100-160 cm is 3-5.5 ft or so. So not very big (3 feet is just shy of 1 meter)
the Moose are almost a pest over here. They are virtially everywhere. I dang near hit one with my car the other day. . Oh yea we eat moose alright, we have a moose hunt every fall. It tastes like raindeer but alittle more corse meat. Imagine turky meat compared to chicken meat. The meat is lean and has a very destingt game flavour. I love it :D
We dont eat humpbacks, but we do eat mink whale . and that is also freaking delish. it also has a destignt gamy taste, but also you can tell its a sea animal.
Moskox (Moskus okse in Norwegian). You can see them in the are of the Dovre mountains in central south eastern Norway. about 300 km north of Oslo. they are a protected speices.
I can mention our snakes , we have 3 , Common european adder (Vipera Berus) , venomus, but not deadly. very common in the southern parts , Grass snake (buorm) (Natrix Natrix). calubrade, non venomus also very common in southern norway. and last Slettsnok or smooth snake in English (Coronella austriaca)). non venomus calubrade , not as common as the other two and only found along the southern coast.
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They didnt have the Norwegian national bird Fossekall on the list :) Cool little bird that swim underwater in Norwegians rivers :)
It's called dipper in English.....
The reason why any large predator here is endangered is that they prey on life stock. I'm a hunter myself, but the lynx, the wolf, the bear and the wolverine....live and let live!! They are a natural part of the wildlife here.
Where I live in morway, we have alot of moose. Have woken up several times by drunk ones in the garden after eating fruits that have fallen from our appletree. Never jad a bad encounter with one yet. Not even in the woods when we ran into a mom and its newborn. Belive that was more luck, since they tend to be very protective of their kids.
Most of the Scandinavian animals (brown bears, moose, lynx, wolverines etc) live in remote places in the woods. I’ve once seen a moose on a car safari an hour far away in the middle of the woods of Sweden. I was surprised that i could go so far away in te woods with a car. There were not any signs of the habited world there. It was a bit creepy, but also fun!
We have lots of different birds to 😁amphibians and reptiles also, check it up 😁 In Norway there are six species of amphibians and five reptiles.