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Kentucky Animal Life - Common Mammals
Kentucky's State Official
Wild Animal -- the Eastern Gray Squirrel
Kentucky's wildlife diversity includes a
variety of small mammals -- the bat, beaver, cottontail rabbit,
coyote, fox squirrel, gray fox, gray squirrel, (pictured above), mink,
muskrat, raccoon, red fox, red squirrel, skunk, Virginia opossum, and the
woodchuck -- are some of the small mammals more widespread in numbers
across the state.
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Larger
Mammals
Up until the early 1800's, larger mammals roamed freely across
the Commonwealth. But as more of us humans moved in, more of the
larger mammals moved out.
White-tail deer are still abundant throughout Kentucky, and the
black bear, (pictured at left), the elk, and the red wolf, (pictured
at right), are slowly being repopulated here.
Kentucky now has the largest free-ranging herd of elk east of the
Rocky Mountains. |
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Things That Go !!Bump!! in
the Night
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Raccoon |
Skunk |
Virginia opossum
Commonly called just "possum", this mammal is a
marsupial. The female has a pouch (the marsupium), in which the
young are carried and fed. | If
you are out in the Kentucky countryside at night and hear something moving
in the woods, there's a good chance it's one of the three night travelers
pictured above. All three are common nocturnal animals found in
Kentucky.
For more information on mammals
found in Kentucky, visit:
Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources - Species
Information
AWAKE
- All Wild
About Kentucky's Environment
Dragoo's Wild
Skunk Information
Kentucky Bat Working Group
National Science Foundation Classroom Resources
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