(The following links are meant to provide additional information on animals
and animal topics discussed here. Although the webmaster of this page system will
attempt to provide appropriate and applicable sites, she is not in control of these
sites and she cannot be held responsible for the material found thereof.)
- Coyotes
- They live in all of Ohio's 88 counties and there are several in the North
Chagrin Reservation. They are not dangerous unless provoked, like most wild
animals. They normally chase the Red-Tailed foxes away from the area but there is
still one at NCR so they may be adapting together a bit.
- Muskrats
- They look like small beavers but they have rat-like tails. They are good
swimmers and build dens out of brush piled along riverbanks.
- Eastern Gray Squirrels
- They look like a Fox Squirrel with more gray and slight ear tufts. They are a
little bit smaller and less common here.
- American Red Squirrels
- They are brickred-colored with a white stomach and are considerably smaller
than
the more common Fox Squirrels seen at Hawken.
- Flying Squirrels
- They are nocturnal and not seen very often. They don't really fly but glide,
using the skin flaps that stretch between their arms and legs like a parachute as
they jump from tree to tree.
- Bats ( Little Brown and Big Brown the most common of
12 Ohio species)
- They are about the size of a large mouse and have soft (not rubbery) wings.
They are nocturnal and eat large amounts of insects, like pesky mosquitos. They
are the only mammal family that can fly (chiroptera) and they do not all drink
blood! There are no wild Vampire bats in Ohio.
- Moles
- They burrow a few inches beneath the ground and are usually only seen when they
peek up from the end of a tunnel.
Other animal pages:
American Society of
Mammalogists
Netscape Electronic Zoo
Mammal Species of the World
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