Remember a couple of years ago at back of the Highlands Resort bloody monkey Ooo, Ooo, Oing every morning at 7.00am - did not need an alarm! Was obviously telling all the other monkeys to naff off from his pad! Also what about those lovely little green/yellow/red parakeets type things used to be hundreds down by Candolim beach especially at dusk - not so many in recent years but still some nice wild life close at hand. Also once saw a HUGE and I mean HUGE lizzard strolling across the road down at the Beach - the dogs, cows and assorted other beasties stood well back - as did I!!!
Friend did a tweeter trip aarf in the jungle for 3 days and loved it!
Friend did a tweeter trip aarf in the jungle for 3 days and loved it!
Couple of years ago when we where at Silversands hotel we used to watch a large mongoose walk along the wall about 08.30am every morning.
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Hubby and I were on our way back from the beach at Calangute once cut up through the little houses by the Mira hotel and we saw a huge lime green snake ...we have seen monkeys at a few hotels we have stayed in over the years and we have also seen a snake at anjuna market ...colleen
I HATE snakes as I nearly trod on basking adder - which everybody thinks is funny when I was a kid. New there were snakes about BUT the sighting of a Mongoose yikes!! Oh well we all know what he likes for dinner........ 
By the way the Thong creatures - I think I have seen them as well - crinkled, very brown, with sagging never regions if I remember correctly!
By the way the Thong creatures - I think I have seen them as well - crinkled, very brown, with sagging never regions if I remember correctly!
ive seen a lot of honey bees turn into pink elephants
when we were there last year we saw the biggest rat ever - it didnt acknowldege us it was either too lazy too bold. eventually it scuttled off. but im telling you this right was massive!
We used to get loads of little chipmunks on the trees just outside our window, and also amazing fruit bats in the same trees that you used to see as it got dusk. I found the bats fasinating - but am a bit phobic when it comes to creepy crawlies which is unfortunate!!! - We sat in a roof top bar in the evening once, and a huge beetle thingy dropped onto our table with a loud bang! Not really been a fan since!
The chipmunks are called palm squirrels.
We were sitting in a beach shack on Palolem Beach one night when a huge grasshopper style "thing" jumped on my son-in-laws face, he shouted in surprise, brushed it off on to the table then my daughter then saw it, screamed, jumped up and down then lamped it with her book. Legs were like chicken legs - yuk Scared the pants off all of us at the time but at least hubby and I laughed about it afterwards..........the kids said they didn't want to go back there again 
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Scared the pants off all of us at the time but at least hubby and I laughed about it afterwards..........the kids said they didn't want to go back there again Fizz
I was once sat on the beach at candolim, when i watched something furry with a pointed nose run acroos the sand and jump on a old dears sunbed whilst she was in the shack, when she approached the sunbed, i explained that there was something on her bed, we then found the offending animal under the towels, at which point the lady run off back into the shack brought back one of the lads who striped the bed down finding nothing! it was only later when the lady went in her bag that she found it again! it didnt last long once the shack boys got hold of it though, they explained it was a house mouse, i since checked on google and it is a house shrew (Suncus murinus)
OHH never heard of them but here is one if anybody want to have a look they look big I think ...what size was it vindaloohttp://www.ecologyasia.com/verts/mammals/house-shrew.htm&h=225&w=300&sz=18&tbnid=2jXk8ut7goJWPM:&tbnh=87&tbnw=116&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dhouse%2Bshrew&zoom=1&q=house+shrew&hl=en&usg=__aENMZMyhY5GpmJo6gf2fY5Q0_zQ=&sa=X&ei=zR5ZTaqACpO2hAee_vjfDA&ved=0CEMQ9QEwBg"" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="break-word">http://www.ecologyasia.com/images-ghi/house-shrew_0001.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.ecologyasia.com/verts/mammals/house-shrew.htm&h=225&w=300&sz=18&tbnid=2jXk8ut7goJWPM:&tbnh=87&tbnw=116&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dhouse%2Bshrew&zoom=1&q=house+shrew&hl=en&usg=__aENMZMyhY5GpmJo6gf2fY5Q0_zQ=&sa=X&ei=zR5ZTaqACpO2hAee_vjfDA&ved=0CEMQ9QEwBg" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="break-word">http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.ecologyasia.com/verts/mammals/house-shrew.htm&h=225&w=300&sz=18&tbnid=2jXk8ut7goJWPM:&tbnh=87&tbnw=116&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dhouse%2Bshrew&zoom=1&q=house+shrew&hl=en&usg=__aENMZMyhY5GpmJo6gf2fY5Q0_zQ=&sa=X&ei=zR5ZTaqACpO2hAee_vjfDA&ved=0CEMQ9QEwBg" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="break-word">http://www.ecologyasia.com/images-ghi/house-shrew_0001.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.ecologyasia.com/verts/mammals/house-shrew.htm&h=225&w=300&sz=18&tbnid=2jXk8ut7goJWPM:&tbnh=87&tbnw=116&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dhouse%2Bshrew&zoom=1&q=house+shrew&hl=en&usg=__aENMZMyhY5GpmJo6gf2fY5Q0_zQ=&sa=X&ei=zR5ZTaqACpO2hAee_vjfDA&ved=0CEMQ9QEwBg
Hi irishcoleen,
Body length was around 6 inches long with a 3 inch tail, when the shack lads grabbed it by the tail it was trying to bite them
Body length was around 6 inches long with a 3 inch tail, when the shack lads grabbed it by the tail it was trying to bite them
We saw LOADS of animals in Goa; storks, herons, kingfishers (the birds, and the beers), black raven type things, fish, frogs, lizards, eagles, goats, cows, dogs, cats, elephants, a king cobra, funnel web spiders, monkeys, cockroaches and mosquitos!
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