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This is a list of mammal species recorded in the wild in Newfoundland, the island portion of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.Only 14 known species (and one extinct species) are or were native to the island; this list is divided into native species and species introduced to the island since discovery by Europeans and colonization in the late 15th and early 16th centuries.
The Newfoundland black bear (Ursus americanus hamiltoni) is a morphologically distinct subspecies of the American black bear, which is endemic to the island of Newfoundland in Atlantic Canada. The Newfoundland black bear ranges in size from 90 to 270 kilograms (200 to 600 lb) and averaging 135 kilograms (298 lb).
Here lies Crook, a bear and lion dog that helped kill 210 bear and 426 lion since 1914 (n.n. 11 years period), owned by B. V. Lilly ... He was known many times to fight and dispatch in hand-to-hand combat bear and cougars using a self-made custom Bowie knife , more precisely a double edged S-shaped large Arkansas toothpick dagger, named "The ...
Horse Islands became famous during the shooting of a Canadian movie, with financial backing from Paramount Pictures, The Viking, directed by Varick Frissell, a New York filmmaker. The movie was shot aboard the SS Viking , and it was to feature the lives of Newfoundland Sealers .
Incorporated as a town in 1986, this small fishing community is located near the base of the Burin Peninsula on the east side of Fortune Bay approximately 3 km east of Bay L'Argent. The origin of the name is uncertain, perhaps deriving from an early French settler, although it appears on many early maps as Jack (or Jack's) Fontaine.
The skull is the property of Newfoundland and Labrador and is held in the Provincial Museum of Newfoundland and Labrador. By studying wear on the molars, Cox determined that the skull belonged to a full-grown but small female grizzly bear. [2]
Gros Morne National Park is a Canadian national park and World Heritage Site located on the west coast of Newfoundland.At 1,805 km 2 (697 sq mi), it is the second largest national park in Atlantic Canada after Torngat Mountains National Park, which has an area of 9,700 km 2 (3,700 sq mi).