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Hoary marmots are cool. Literally. They live all year round in the cool weather of the Canadian Rockies, hibernating over half the year during the colder months. With a little luck, you may see them in various places in Jasper National Park and the Canadian Rockies. If you’ve been on the Internet for any length of time, there’s a good chance you’ve seen funny cat pictures known as LOLcats made famous on the website icanhascheezburger. Wikipedia describes lolcats: “A lolcat is an image combining a photograph, most frequently of a cat, with a humorous and idiosyncratic caption in (often) broken English—a dialect which is known as “lolspeak” or “kitty pidgin” and which parodies the poor grammar typically attributed to Internet slang.” Read more on LOL mountain goats? Jasper National Park gets the LOLcat Bighorn sheep are magnificent creatures and one of the more common Jasper National Park wildlife sightings. If you spend a few days or a weeks in the Canadian Rockies during the summer, you have a good chance of seeing bighorn sheep somewhere during your journey. You may see them walking alongside the road or while you are out hiking (for instance, while hiking Wilcox Pass). Read more on Magnificent bighorn sheep in Jasper National Park and the Canadian Hoary Marmots. Now you see them. Now you don’t. Did you hear them whistle? Yes, marmots earned the nickname “whistlers” from the sounds they make. In Jasper National Park, Whistlers Mountain has whistlers (marmots) living on it. You may spot a few when taking the Jasper Tramway up to the top of the mountain. Read more on Wildlife Profile: Hoary Marmots in the Canadian Elk are usually well-behaved. But this character, tired of all of the tourists taking pictures of him, decides to stick out his tongue. He’s quite a troublemaker. Would you stick your tongue out back at him? Looking to make the most out of travel photos? Want to do something a little different from the norm? Whether taking pictures in Jasper National Park or elsewhere, modern technology has made it easier to enjoy travel photos in many new ways. Travelers and photographers alike have snapped some great photos of mountain goats in various North America habitats. Mountain goats are amongst the animals everyone who visits Jasper National Park wants to see. A funny thing happened the other day. I went into a building with a sign outside reading “Library” – curious and not knowing what it was. I learned something. It seems that a “Library” is a museum of old books and magazines, those strange paper things people used during the pre-Internet era of human history. After watching a few episodes of the Grizzly Man Diaries on Animal Planet and knowing of the less than optimal outcome for the grizzly man (eaten by bears), I’ve put together a list of things not to say to black bears while in Jasper National Park.
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