Fur Bearing Animal Identification

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Fur Bearing Animal Identification
From foukeffa.org Written by Patti Hayes Ag
Student Texas AM
GA Ag Ed Curriculum Office To accompany the
Georgia Agriculture Education Curriculum Lesson
03411-8 July 2001
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Objectives

• List 19 Fur-bearing species of Texas wildlife.
• Describe what the 19 fur-bearing species look
  like.

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Badger

• Large, robust, short-legged weasel
• Broad body with a short, thick tail
• Grayish, yellow body
• White face markings

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Beaver

• Aquatic rodents
• Broad, flat, scaly tails
• Webbed hind feet
• Dark brown color

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Red Fox

• Bright, golden yellow body
• Chin, throat, belly mid-line of belly are white
• Forefeet legs are black

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Desert Fox

• Smaller body
• Upper body is buffy gray
• Sides, tail mid-belly are clear buff
• Throat is white
• Have large ears

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Swift Fox

• Upper parts are pale buffy yellow with frosted
  white
• Tail is buffy gray with a black tip

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Gray Fox

• Gray upper body
• Reddish brown legs
• White throat, cheeks, mid-
• line of belly

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Weasel

• Long, slender animal
• Short legs long tail
• Small, rounded ears

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Mink

• Size of a house cat
• Dark brown
• Semi-aquatic
• Prefer small streams

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Muskrat

• Large, brownish, aquatic, scaly-tailed rodent
• Tail is naked
• Inhabit marshes

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Nutria

• Beaver-like
• Long, round sparsely haired tail
• Dark underfur with long, glossy dark brown guard
  hairs

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Opossum

• Long, scaly, prehensile tail
• Nocturnal
• White base and black tipped fur

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Otter

• Large, dark brown animal with slender body
• Webbed feet long thick tail
• Aquatic and feed mostly on fish

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Raccoon

• Blackish facial mask with white outline
• Tail is black and white alternating rings
• nocturnal

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Ringtails

• Resembles a small fox
• Long tail with alternating white and black rings
• Nocturnal
• Bodies are gray

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Spotted Skunk

• Small white spot on forehead
• Six distinct white stripes on body

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Striped Skunk

• Two white stripes on sides of back
• Stripes connect at the neck region continue
  down the head

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Hooded Skunk

• Two color patterns
• Upper body is chiefly white
• OR Upper part is chiefly black with white stripes

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Hog-nosed Skunk

• Single white stripe that extends from head to
  tail
• Tail is entirely white

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Black Bear

• Medium-size bear
• Black or brown
• Front claws are slightly longer and curved for
  climbing