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Mountain State Mammals: A Guide to Mammals of the Rocky Mountain Region

Mountain State Mammals: A Guide to Mammals of the Rocky Mountain Region

Mountain State Mammals: A Guide to Mammals of the Rocky Mountain Region

Mountain State Mammals: A Guide to Mammals of the Rocky Mountain Region

Overview

Easily Identify the Mammals You Find in the Mountain States!

Enjoy learning to identify mammals of the Rocky Mountain region with this pocket-size field guide from author Ron Russo. With this handy, easy-to-use book, you'll be able to identify a wide variety of mammals in no time. And its small size makes it just right for fitting into your pocket or pack when you go for a hike.

Features:

  • Helps readers identify the wild mammals of the Rockies and Great Basin (Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico)
  • Includes a sighting key to identify animals that are seen
  • Provides keys to prints, droppings, skulls and jaws, and other signs animals leave behind, to aid in identification of often-elusive animals that are not seen
  • Gives information about the biology of each species
  • Includes copious amounts of illustrations with drawings of tracks, skulls, scat, and animals, as well as range maps

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780912550213
Publisher: Wilderness Press
Publication date: 01/01/1991
Series: Nature Study Guides
Pages: 134
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 4.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Ron Russo is a naturalist in Oakland, California. Barbara Downs is a freelance illustrator.

Read an Excerpt

Audubon Cottontail, Desert Cottontail

Sylvilagus audubonii

Long ears that are sparsely furred inside distinguish this rabbit from mountain cottontail. In open plains, foothills, low valleys; in grass, sage, pinyon-juniper, deserts. Home range: nine acres for females, up to 15 acres for males. Active in late afternoon, night, and early morning. Stays close to thickets. Eats green vegetation and a variety of fruit, tree bark rarely. Young born naked and blind, in fur nests, throughout the year. May live two years in wild. Vulnerable to marauding domestic dogs. Note: Eastern Cottontail, S. floridanus, is found in central, southern Arizona, New Mexico, eastern Colorado, southeastern Wyoming.

Table of Contents

Species List
  • Pocket gophers
  • Pika, cony, rock rabbit, piping hare
  • Whitetail jackrabbit, whitetail hare
  • Blacktail jackrabbit, blacktail hare
  • Snowshoe hare
  • Audubon cottontail, desert cottontail
  • Mountain cottontail
  • Squirrel biology
  • Abert’s squirrel, tassel-eared squirrel
  • Red squirrel, chickaree, pine squirrel
  • Northern flying squirrel
  • Rock squirrel
  • Richardson’s ground squirrel, flickertail, Wyoming ground squirrel
  • Columbian ground squirrel
  • Uinta ground squirrel
  • Spotted ground squirrel
  • White-tailed antelope ground squirrel
  • Thirteen-lined ground squirrel, striped gopher
  • Golden-mantled ground squirrel
  • Chipmunks
  • Yellow pine chipmunk
  • Least chipmunk
  • Cliff chipmunk
  • Colorado chipmunk
  • Uinta chipmunk
  • Yellow-bellied marmot
  • Hoary marmot
  • Black-tailed prairie dog
  • White-tailed prairie dog
  • Beaver
  • Muskrat
  • Porcupine
  • Woodrats
  • White-throated woodrat
  • Mexican woodrat
  • Bushy-tailed woodrat
  • Bighorn sheep
  • Pronghorn antelope
  • Rocky mountain mule deer
  • White-tailed deer, flag-tail
  • Rocky mountain elk
  • Mountain goat
  • Shiras moose
  • Buffalo, bison
  • Bats
  • Opossum
  • Ringtail, miner’s cat, civet cat
  • Raccoon
  • Striped skunk
  • Spotted skunk
  • Hog-nosed skunk, rooter skunk
  • River otter
  • Pine marten
  • Long-tailed weasel
  • Least weasel
  • Ermine, short-tailed weasel
  • Fisher
  • Black-footed ferret
  • Mink
  • Badger
  • Wolverine, skunk bear
  • Grizzly bear
  • Black bear
  • Gray wolf, timber wolf
  • Coyote
  • Gray fox
  • Red fox
  • Swift
  • Bobcat
  • Lynx, Canada lynx
  • Mountain lion, cougar, puma
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