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The U.S. state of Alabama is home to these known indigenous mammal species. [1] Historically, the state's indigenous species included one armadillo species, sixteen bat species, thirteen carnivore species, six insectivore species, one opossum species, four rabbit species, twenty-two rodent species, and three ungulate species.
Alabama City is a former city and now a neighborhood within the city of Gadsden in Etowah County, Alabama, United States. It was equidistant between Gadsden and Attalla, Alabama , approximately 2 1/2 miles west of downtown Gadsden.
Skulls of a long-tailed weasel (top), a stoat (bottom left) and least weasel (bottom right), as illustrated in Merriam's Synopsis of the Weasels of North America. The long-tailed 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.
A fisher, a mammal related to river otters and weasels, found as roadkill in Ashtabula County in 2023, was recently confirmed to be pregnant, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources ...
The Boll Weevil Monument in downtown Enterprise, Alabama, United States, is a prominent landmark and tribute erected by the citizens of Enterprise in 1919 to show their appreciation to an insect, the boll weevil, for its profound influence on the area's agriculture and economy.
In Greek culture, a weasel near one's house is a sign of bad luck, even evil, "especially if there is in the household a girl about to be married", since the animal (based on its Greek etymology) was thought to be an unhappy bride who was transformed into a weasel [7] and consequently delights in destroying wedding dresses. [8]
Orange City is about a 60-mile drive from Silver Spring State Park, where a band of rhesus macaque monkeys has lived since the 1930s, when some were released by a local tour boat operator ...
There are four known introduced reptile species, all lizards. [3] They include the Indo-Pacific gecko, brown anole, Texas horned lizard, and Mediterranean house gecko. [4] Human predation and habitat destruction has placed several reptile species and subspecies at risk of extirpation or extinction.