animals to watch for while you are on your trip
Coyotes can weigh from 15 to 44 lbs. Their bodies are 30 to 40 inches long and their tail is 12 to 16 inches long. They are about 15 to 20 inches tall. Their fur is grayish tan. They have a long pointed nose and large ears. Coyotes can live almost anywhere. They now live in most of North America and Central America, from Alaska to Nova Scotia and Panama. They even live in the suburbs of large cities. People have even blamed them for eating their pets. But the coyote's original habitat was the big open grassland.
The American black bear, like most bears, lack the distinctive shoulder hump that the Grizzly Bear has. This bear can run up to 25 miles per hour, which is very quick for its 220-594 pound body.
these white tail deer are extremely cautious and wary animals with highly developed senses of sight, smell, and hearing. If seriously frightened however, a whitetail deer will often utter a loud, snorting call, and then quickly run away while raising their tail upwards like a flag, exposing the white underneath as a visual alarm to other deer nearby. The young deer, known as fawns, are almost scentless for the first few days of their life
The beaver is a large, semi-aquatic rodent with a large, flattened tail. It is a strong swimmer and can swim up to 5 miles per hour (8 kph). The beaver can swim underwater for up to 15 minutes. Young beavers are called kits. Beavers live in forests in North America and in parts of Europe and Asia. Beavers do not hibernate over winter, but they will stay in their lodge, where they have stored enough food to last until spring. Beavers build sophisticated lodges out of sticks and mud. Skunks are the smelliest mammals. These small, nocturnal animals are found in South and Central America and much of North America (excluding the coldest regions). Skunks produce a very smelly spray that repels most predators. This oily, yellow liquid is produced in two glands located under the tail. They can spray up to 10 ft (3 m) away. The smell is long-lasting and very hard to get rid of.
about 15 inches in length and is one of the largest woodpeckers found in North America. It has a black body, a red crest, white stripes on its neck and black and white stripes on its face. It has yellow bristly feathers over its nostrils that keep out wood chips. The pileated woodpecker lives in coniferous and deciduous forests.