I’m not likely to run into a bear in Chicagoland, unless one escapes from the zoo, or I go to a football game. In fact a coyote is probably the biggest 4-legged predator I’ll come into contact with. Since January the largest live animal we’ve had a run in with was a vole...
If I go back west for field work, that could change. But the next 2’ish years is likely to find me in a lab with tadpoles As my study organism...