Anyone ever see a ringtail?

cougarmagic · Post by **cougarmagic** » Tue Oct 13, 2009 9:57 am

They are nocturnal, so chances of seeing one are slim. They aren't endangered or anything, but still a very rare find. I"m curious....

I saw one run across a road in the Chiricauhuas in Arizona many years ago. (this is not my photo, just an example I found online)

Post by **Taco** » Tue Oct 13, 2009 12:13 pm

I think so. I've seen a shitload of ones that look just like that, though I don't recall seeing the tail like that. I've seen them in the desert a long time ago.

Rumpled · Post by **Rumpled** » Wed Oct 14, 2009 11:11 am

I've never seen one.

Wasn't this thread a little different yesterday?

Is Taco throwing his voice to sound like Simonov?

Post by **Taco** » Wed Oct 14, 2009 3:56 pm

Whaaa?

Mike P · Post by **Mike P** » Wed Oct 14, 2009 7:17 pm

Yes, my wife saw a ringtail at my house here in Glendora in late 1998. Haven't seen the buggers since. The previous owners also told me that they saw the ringtail in 1997-1998.

BTW, the Altadena ringtail sighting was just a cat. (We had discussed setting up one of your cameras there... I keep forgetting to let you know about it. Oops... sorry)

Rumpled · Post by **Rumpled** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 3:05 pm

I thought when I first saw this thread that Simonov had the S-load commnet and Taco had a not seen one comment.

Maybe I sniffed too much adhesive?

Post by **Taco** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 4:08 pm

turtle · Post by **turtle** » Tue Apr 27, 2010 11:54 am

One visited our camp while we were sleeping out in Fall Canyon in DV NP a few years ago.

My friend Adam awoke when a critter he described as "a squirrel or chihuahua with a racoon's tail" began digging through his backpack (which lay just a few feet from his head). He got a good look at it, and stuck by his sighting on the hike out, despite doubts from the rest of the group.

Before leaving the park, we stopped by the Visitor's Center, and there it was (in an exhibit on local fauna), exactly as he'd described.

Post by **Hikin_Jim** » Tue Apr 27, 2010 3:03 pm

I've seen a ringtail in the wild one and only one time: in Zion National Park in 2007. Here are my crappy photos. Sorry about the photos, especially the last couple.

If you click on each photo, it should enlarge.

HJ

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PackerGreg · Post by **PackerGreg** » Tue Apr 27, 2010 3:20 pm

Cabin #1 in Big Santa Anita Canyon (below Hermit Falls) has a Ringtail that visits regularly. It has become quite tame and eats grapes from the hand of the cabin owner. They are actually easy to tame, and the old gold miners used to keep them in their cabins to eat mice.

lilbitmo · Post by **lilbitmo** » Tue Apr 27, 2010 4:51 pm

PackerGreg wrote:Cabin #1 in Big Santa Anita Canyon (below Hermit Falls) has a Ringtail that visits regularly. It has become quite tame and eats grapes from the hand of the cabin owner. They are actually easy to tame, and the old gold miners used to keep them in their cabins to eat mice.

Greg where can I get two "trained tame one's" as I need to clear my yard of gophers, they are everywhere these days

Save me the trouble of trying to get rid of them

By the way the ones in my yard are extremely agressive, this is what they look like

PackerGreg · Post by **PackerGreg** » Tue Apr 27, 2010 5:38 pm

Yeah, that's one of those OC gophers. Here is one from the West Side...

CrazyHermit · Post by **CrazyHermit** » Mon Jun 12, 2017 7:40 am

You hardly ever see them in the daytime, but I saw a whole family of them one morning near the first waterfall at Eaton Canyon. Also saw one at night in Monrovia. If you shine a flashlight on them they'll stare straight into it until you move. I believe they're Arizona's state mammal.

Mike P · Post by **Mike P** » Tue Jun 13, 2017 11:30 pm

Yes, I had pictures from my camera three years ago. See this discussion: First Camera Pics and Ringtail