Somehow, whenever you join a tour through a national park or wilderness, you're always asked to look out for wild animals. Not really for your safety (in a coach, lah), but for the excitement as they're pretty rare on or beside highways, railway tracks etc.
No danger, this one, whatsoever.
It's a Columbian (province of Canada, not drug state in South America) ground squirrel.
Looks very much like a prairie dog or ground hog.
With a bushy tail.
Bear! Left side! Very loud shouts, as we've been asked to give, so that all may enjoy the sighting.
Peer into the centre of this photo like all of us on the coach, and see the mother black bear with a cub in tow?
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Here's a telephoto zoom shot.
On the old 6-year old Panasonic Lumix. That's why.
Click here to see them in their element.
This is our favourite : a mountain goat. On a cut embankment on the Icefields Parkway in Banff National Park.
The IP also runs through Jasper National Park.
Deer along highway verge being hassled by an ignorant human being. He wasn’t from our coach else he would've been soundly booed.
Another type of deer.
This is a sheep although it looks more like a deer or goat.
It's a male (or ram) bighorn sheep.
Click here for more information about bighorn sheep.
And this one stood there for some time, even as our coach edged up to him.
No giving way, until he grew tired of us.
This one's a female bighorn sheep.
Black bear going back into the safety of the forest. 
And that's another black bear (above).
Kept seeing black bears.
No grizzlies around.
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