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Title: Fur Bearing Animal Identification


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Fur Bearing Animal Identification
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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

4
Beaver
  • Aquatic rodents
  • Broad, flat, scaly tails
  • Webbed hind feet
  • Dark brown color

5
Red Fox
  • Bright, golden yellow body
  • Chin, throat, belly mid-line of belly are white
  • Forefeet legs are black

6
Desert Fox
  • Smaller body
  • Upper body is buffy gray
  • Sides, tail mid-belly are clear buff
  • Throat is white
  • Have large ears

7
Swift Fox
  • Upper parts are pale buffy yellow with frosted
    white
  • Tail is buffy gray with a black tip

8
Gray Fox
  • Gray upper body
  • Reddish brown legs
  • White throat, cheeks, mid-line of belly

9
Weasel
  • Long, slender animal
  • Short legs long tail
  • Small, rounded ears

10
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

12
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

14
Otter
  • Large, dark brown animal with slender body
  • Webbed feet long thick tail
  • Aquatic and feed mostly on fish

15
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

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