San Pedro Riparian Area

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San Pedro Riparian Area

• Supports a cottonwood-willow forest
• Excellent protection
• Roosting sites
• Microhabitats for terrestrial animals
• Snags protection for water dwelling species

• Produces protective corridors
• Used by foraging animals
• Used by migrating species

• Home to more species of mammals (78), than any
  other place in the United States

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Beavers (Castor canadensis)

• Largest rodents in the United States
• 25-36 inches long
• Average weight is in the 30s, some weigh up to
  60lbs.
• Have a large, flat, scaly tail

• Live in small colonies
• Parents, yearlings, recent offspring
• Build dams and lodges together
• Some live under the banks or rivers

• The Beaver River
• Malaria Scare in the early 1900s
• Reintroduction in 1940s and 1999
• Healthier willow-cottonwood forest

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Coatimundi (Nasua nasua)

• San Pedro river marks its Northern Border
• Belong to the family Procyonidae (same as
  raccoons)
• Coati are constantly foraging for food!
• Body features suit its lifestyle
• Elongated snoot with rooting pad
• Dexterous hands
• Longer rear legs
• Long claws and impressive canines

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Mountain Lion(Felis concolor)

• Very efficient predators
• Main source of food is deer
• One to two deer per week

• Involved in some controversy
• Cattle ranchers
• Humans ex Sabino Canyon

• Very susceptible to habitat loss
• Elusive creatures
• Highly territorial

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Mule Deer(Odocoileus hemionus crooki)

• Their name comes from the elongated ears
• Large species of desert deer
• Average buck weighs 150lbs.
• Have very large antlers

• Browsers not grazers
• Prefer to eat leaves of trees and shrubs
• Browse only on small amounts from each plant
• Southwest pop. decline since 1960s
• Loss of habitat
• Degradation of habitat from cattle