Prairie Rattlesnake
Rattle of the Grasslands
Conservation Threats
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Contamination from chemicals, plastics, noise, and light affecting wildlife health and behavior
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Wood Turtle
Sculpted shell, stream-to-forest trekker
Bush Baby
Big eyes. Bigger leaps.
Horned Lizard
Spines, stealth, and ants for dinner.
Flying Lemur
Not a lemur-nature's glide master
Canada Lynx
Taiga's snowshoe hunter
American Toad
The trilling toad of the backyard
Star-nosed mole
22 rays. 0.12 seconds. Pure touch.
Giant Armadillo
Big burrows. Bigger impact.
Box Turtle
The turtle that shuts the door
Horsefly
Fast flyers with a fierce bite
Fisher
The tree-running porcupine hunter
Grasshopper Mouse
A mouse that hunts like a wolf
Sharp-Tailed Snake
Small snake, sharp tail, slug hunter
Rose-Breasted Grosbeak
Rose flash of the treetops
Ferruginous Hawk
Royal hawk of the wide-open West
Tree swallow
Sky-sleek hunter of wetland air
Camel Cricket
Humpback hoppers of the humid dark
Black Wasp
Katydid hunter, flower visitor
No See Ums
Tiny fly, mighty bite.
Chickadee
Small bird, big personality
Little Brown Bat
Small bat, big insect control
Mudpuppy
Gilled for life, built for the bottom.
Burmese Python
Big, blotched, built to constrict