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Wildlife Gallery #1 These are all native animal species you might see on any of the HEF properties. Many of these animals live here and are free to roam, forage, and migrate through out our HEF properties and surrounding lands. Each day can bring new surprises and experiences. |
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The second largest rodent in the world. Beavers weigh 30 to 70 pounds and have a broad flattened tail and webbed hind feet. | |
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One bat can consume as many as 3,000 insects a night. | |
Otters have suffered severely through habitat destruction, pollution that kills the fish they eat, misuse of pesticides, and excessive trapping. | |
If you are in a wooded area and hear a high-pitched "chip" it could be a chipmunk scolding you. | |||
They coyote is an opportunist when it comes to eating. It hunts rabbits, birds, mice and voles. Coyotes are usually solitary hunters but a pack may bring down a deer. | |
The red fox is omnivorous. Its diet consists of muskrats, squirrels, hares, birds, eggs, insects, vegetation, carrion and voles, which seem to be its preferred food. |
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Skunks are omnivorous nighttime hunters. This means they feed on almost anything, including crickets and grasshoppers, nuts, eggs, and fruit. Skunks have their scent gland from the day they are born, and can spray when they are only 8 days old. | |||
They eat what they find in the tunnels, including earthworms, insects, salamanders, small birds, and young rabbits. The lower jaw has saliva containing a poison that affects the prey's heart rate, blood pressure and respiration. |
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In WA not on foundation properties. |
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