Badger

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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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Badger Cont.

• Nocturnal
• Poor eyesight
• Omnivores eat earthworms
• Home is a set underground home of tunnels
• Smell 1 sense

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Beaver

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

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Beaver

• 2nd largest rodent in the world
• Muskglands
• Entrance to lodge is under water
• Live 19 years

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Red Fox

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

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Swift Fox

• Upper parts are pale buffy yellow with frosted
  white
• Tail is buffy gray with a black tip
• Pair for life and have 1 litter per year

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Swift Fox

• Coyotes are their 1 predator
• Live in short grass prairies and deserts
• Smallest wild dogs
• Endangered species

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Gray Fox

• Gray upper body
• Reddish brown legs
• White throat, cheeks, mid-line of belly
• Upper part of the tail and tip are black

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Weasel

• Long, slender animal
• Short legs long tail
• Small, rounded ears
• Eat rabbit, mice, birds, frogs, ground squirrel

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Weasel

• Bite prey at the back of its neck
• Musk glands smell
• Snakes, hawks, and owls kill them

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Mink

• Size of a house cat
• Dark brown
• Semi-aquatic
• Prefer small streams
• Musk glands
• Catch food in water

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Muskrat

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

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Muskrat

• Partially webbed hind feet
• Most active at night
• Mark territory with musky secretions

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Nutria

• Beaver-like
• Long, round sparsely haired tail
• Dark underfur with long, glossy dark brown guard
  hairs
• Native to North America
• Semi-aquatic rodent

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Opossum

• Long, scaly, prehensile tail
• Nocturnal
• White base and black tipped fur
• Only marsupial in North America

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Opossum

• 13 days after mating, female has a litter of
  honeybee size babies
• Crawl to mothers pouch
• Fake death
• One of the cleanest animals

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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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Otter

• Have large lungs and can stay under water 4
  minutes
• Only spend 15 minutes in water at a time because
  it is cold

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Raccoon

• Blackish facial mask with white outline
• Tail is black and white alternating rings
• Nocturnal
• Omnivores
• 2 diseases distemper and rabies (both fatal)

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Ringtails

• Resembles a small fox
• Long, tail with alternating white and black rings
• Nocturnal
• Bodies are gray
• AKA civet or miner cat
• Mark territory
• Release odor when scared

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Spotted Skunk

• Small white spot on forehead
• Six distinct white stripes on body
• Nocturnal
• Poor vision
• 2 scent glands on either side of anus

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Striped Skunk

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

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Black Bear

• Medium-size bear
• Black or brown
• Front claws are slightly longer and curved for
  climbing
• Run 30mph
• Swim
• Sleep for months without eating

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Mountain Lion

• AKA-cougars or pumas
• Spotted fur
• Dull, tawny color
• White underneath
• Rarely live in caves

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Bobcat

• Unusually short tail
• Run with a bobbing gait
• Keep claws inside toes
• Run at 30mph
• Pads on feet keep them quiet

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Feral cats

• Wild offspring of domestic cats

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Coyote

• Number 1 predator of livestock in the US
• Eerie howls
• High-pitched yapping
• Mate for life
• Run 40mph
• Have 42 teeth

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Red Wolf

• Resembles coyote
• Long distance running in open country
• Endangered
• Smaller than gray wolf and bigger than coyote

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Feral dogs

• 2nd livestock losses in the US

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Osprey

• Fish Hawk
• Only eat fish
• Toes have sharp spines for catching prey

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Osprey

• Have ears no teeth
• Close to being endangered
• Migrate

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Red-tailed Hawk

• Have different nests and rotate them
• Lay 1-5 eggs
• Incubate 28-35 days

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Northern Harrier

• Marsh Hawk
• Residents of wetlands
• Medium sized, long winged, tail
• Low coursing flight, white rump, wings held at an
  angle.

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Owl

• Nocturnal
• Feathers adapted for soundless flight
• Eyes 10 times that of humans
• Head rotates up to 200 degrees
• Eyes positioned anteriorly (on front of face.)

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Owl

• Short sighted
• Best hearing of all birds
• One ear lower than the other
• Silent in flight
• Swallow prey whole and cough up ball or pellet
  of bones and fur

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Bald Eagle

• White head and tail
• National emblem of the United States
• Bald means white

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Bald Eagle

• Nest found that was used for 34 years and weighed
  over 2 tons
• Fly at 20-40 mph
• Dive at 100 mph
• They can swim

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Fallow

• Spotted, Chocolate, or White
• Have a black outline on their tail
• Breed Oct-Nov
• Usually single births
• Non-aggressive species
• gestation 233days

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Blackbuck Antelope
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Blackbuck Antelope

• One of the fastest animals on earth
• 45 mph
• Graze by day
• Males have spiral horns

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Axis

• Called the most beautiful deer
• Spots and white bib on their neck

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Pronghorn Antelope
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Pronghorn Antelope

• Shed branched horn annually
• Have one of the largest eyes in the world
• Field of vision is almost 360 degrees
• 2nd fastest animal of earth 60 mph
• Seldom drink water
• Not jumpers

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Moose

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Moose

• Largest of deer family
• Herbivores
• Front legs are longer than the back
• Flap of skin that hangs beneath throat called a
  Bell

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Nilgai

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Nilgai

• Antelope
• From India
• Neck skin is over 1 inch thick
• Diurnal (active during day)

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Pheasant
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Pheasant

• Introduced in Minnesota
• 30-35 survive from 1 year to the next
• Male has harem of 3-7 hens

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Prairie Chicken

• AKA - Grouse