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This is a list of mammals of Iowa. The list includes species native to the U.S. state of Iowa and introduced into the state. It also includes mammals currently extirpated in the state.
A pika (/ ˈ p aɪ k ə / PY-kə, [3] or / ˈ p iː k ə / PEE-kə) [4] is a small, mountain-dwelling mammal native to Asia and North America. With short limbs, a very round body, an even coat of fur, and no external tail, they resemble their close relative the rabbit, but with short, rounded ears. [5]
Agoutis have five toes on their front feet and three toes on their hind feet; the first toe is very small. The tail is very short or nonexistent and hairless. The molar teeth have cylindrical crowns, with several islands and a single lateral fold of enamel. Agoutis may grow to be up to 60 cm (24 in) in length and 4 kg (8.8 lb) in weight.
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Rodents are animals that gnaw with two continuously growing incisors. Forty percent of mammal species are rodents, and they inhabit every continent except Antarctica. This list contains circa 2,700 species in 518 genera in the order Rodentia. [1]
Status in Iowa Picture Five-lined skink: Plestiodon fasciatus: Great Plains skink: Plestiodon obsoletus: Endangered Northern prairie skink: Plestiodon septentrionalis: Six-lined racerunner: Aspidoscelis sexlineata: Slender glass lizard: Ophisaurus attenuatus: Threatened
The marsh rice rat takes both vegetable and animal food, and is more carnivorous than most small rodents are; [168] dominant food items vary seasonally. Plants eaten include species of Spartina , Salicornia , Tripsacum , and Elymus , among others; it mainly eats seeds and succulent parts. [ 169 ]
The least weasel is the product of a process begun 5–7 million years ago, when northern forests were replaced by open grassland, thus prompting an explosive evolution of small, burrowing rodents. The weasel's ancestors were larger than the current form, and underwent a reduction in size to exploit the new food source.