Mammals

Twinkle Twinkle little bat. How I wonder what you’re at!  Up above the world you fly, like a tea-tray in the sky.  The Mad Hatter, Lewis Carroll  Myotis – from the Greek mys for mouse and otus for ear; and lucifugus – flee from the light.  The little brown bat is found throughout most of North America extending through […]

This is North America’s smallest wild cat and most widely distributed.  It can be found throughout the U.S. and ranges into British Columbia and south into Mexico –excluding portions of the Midwest and high Sierra.   The common name, bobcat, comes from the short, bobbed tail, which is four to six inches long.  They generally weigh

I have indeavoured in many instances to make the indians sensible how anxious I was to obtain one of these animals entire, without being skined, and offered them considerable rewards to furnish me with one, but have not been able to make them comprehend me –  Meriwether Lewis No, no, this is not the industrious

The mountain goat is an ungulate, or hooved mammal of the order Artiodactyla – or “even toed” – basically a hoof that is split into two parts.  The mountain goat is the only species in the genus Oreamnos, which is derived from the Greek term oros (stem ore-) “mountain” or oreas for “mountain nymph, and

This is an odd critter of the  arctic tundra.  It’s closest living relative is the golden takin – a goat-like animal of the Himalayas.  Early explorers called them polar cattle or arctic bison.  During the ice age they were found as far south as Kansas – imagine that!  As the ice and tundra withdrew north,