{"id":475,"date":"2010-08-16T08:10:12","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T08:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/?p=475"},"modified":"2010-08-16T08:10:12","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T08:10:12","slug":"animal-life-in-norway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/animal-life-in-norway\/","title":{"rendered":"Animal life in Norway"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_477\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright post-item__attachment\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2010\/08\/IMG_00341.jpg\" aria-label=\"IMG 00341 300x225\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-477\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-477\" title=\"IMG_0034\"  alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2010\/08\/IMG_00341-300x225.jpg\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-477\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">okser in the roade<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If you are outside of Oslo, you will likely see more than just <strong>m\u00e5ser <\/strong>(sea gulls). \u00a0In fact, when I lived in Oslo, well actually I lived a good 15 min. T-bane ride from the city center, I saw a<strong> hjort <\/strong>(deer) right outside my apartment one day-that was unexpected, but certainly pleasant. \u00a0It made me feel even more at home. \u00a0If you are anywhere by havet (the ocean), you will definitely see way more <strong>m\u00e5ser<\/strong> than you ever would want to. \u00a0Actually, hearing them is by far the worst part. \u00a0Here in Troms\u00f8 they are everywhere and they make a lot of noise, which can make it quite difficult to sleep (trying to get in the mood to go sleep when it\u00b4s light as day is hard enough!).<\/p>\n<p>Anywho, there are many wild animals to be seen in Norway. \u00a0I was driving with a friend from Troms\u00f8 to his home town and I expressed that I really wanted to see an <strong>elg<\/strong> (moose). \u00a0I had previously only seen <strong>elg<\/strong> at Yellowstone. \u00a0I got lucky-literally 30 seconds later an <strong>elg <\/strong>crossed the road not more than 50 meters in front of us. \u00a0Needless to say, I was happy.<\/p>\n<p>Since arriving in northern Norway, I have also seen <strong>sei<\/strong> (coalfish) and <strong>\u00f8rret<\/strong> (trout) when we were <strong>p\u00e5 fisketur<\/strong>, as well as an <strong>\u00f8rn <\/strong>(bald eagle) when we were grilling out on a friend\u00b4s deck. \u00a0I wasn\u00b4t with on this <strong>fisketur<\/strong>, but my friend saw small <strong>haier <\/strong>(sharks) swimming around his boat. \u00a0I\u00b4ve seen a <strong>hare<\/strong> (yes, hare) and a<strong> rev <\/strong>(fox) run across the road. \u00a0Oh, and I can\u00b4t forget to mention the <strong>sauer<\/strong> (sheep) that for some reason, like to march down the middle of the road for a while before they end up on the other side. \u00a0This has happened several times now, we\u00b4ve had to wait for every last <strong>sau<\/strong> to get out of the way of the car. \u00a0I remember when I was in <strong>Hordaland fylke <\/strong>a few years ago, we had to wait for <strong>okser<\/strong> (oxen) to cross the road (see pictures&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>I haven\u00b4t seen any <strong>dyr <\/strong>that I\u00b4m scared of yet, except a few large <strong>edderkopper<\/strong> (spiders), including the one I found in my tent. \u00a0Reptiles are not found in Norway, so I don\u00b4t have to worry about scorpions or lizards. \u00a0Amphibians, on the other hand, such as <strong>frosker<\/strong> (frogs) are found here in Norway.<\/p>\n<p>I hope to continue to see both familiar and unfamiliar <strong>dyr<\/strong> in the wild!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_478\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright post-item__attachment\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2010\/08\/IMG_0176.jpg\" aria-label=\"IMG 0176 225x300\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-478\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-478\" title=\"IMG_0176\"  alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2010\/08\/IMG_0176-225x300.jpg\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-478\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">we think this was a bj\u00f8rnspor (bear print)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"263\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2010\/08\/IMG_0176-263x350.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2010\/08\/IMG_0176-263x350.jpg 263w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2010\/08\/IMG_0176-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2010\/08\/IMG_0176.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 263px) 100vw, 263px\" \/><p>If you are outside of Oslo, you will likely see more than just m\u00e5ser (sea gulls). \u00a0In fact, when I lived in Oslo, well actually I lived a good 15 min. T-bane ride from the city center, I saw a hjort (deer) right outside my apartment one day-that was unexpected, but certainly pleasant. \u00a0It made&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/animal-life-in-norway\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[2332],"tags":[10643,10644,10642],"class_list":["post-475","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nature","tag-animals-in-norway","tag-arctic-animals","tag-norwegian-animals"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions\/479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}