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  2. Great Plains ecoregion - Wikipedia

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    The Great Plains extend from Mexico in the south through the central United States to central Canada. Many sub-regions exist within the area. The region is home to many animals, including American bison, pronghorn, mule, and white tailed deer, and birds such as ducks, hawks, and sparrows, along with many invertebrate species.

  3. Category:Fauna of the Great Plains - Wikipedia

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    Fauna of the Great Plains ecoregion — located in the Central−Midwestern & inland−east Western United States, and in the Canadian Prairies sub-region of south−central Canada. Subcategories This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total.

  4. Central Great Plains (ecoregion) - Wikipedia

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    The Central Great Plains are a prairie ecoregion of the central United States, part of North American Great Plains. The region runs from west-central Texas through west-central Oklahoma, central Kansas, and south-central Nebraska. It is designated as the Central and Southern Mixed Grasslands ecoregion by the World Wide Fund for Nature.

  5. Fauna of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The American bison is the heaviest land animal in North America and can be as tall as 6.5 feet (2.0 m) and weigh over a ton. [9] Maybe the most iconic animal of the American prairie, the American buffalo, once roamed throughout the central plains. Bison once covered the Great Plains and were critically important to Native-American societies in ...

  6. Prairie dog - Wikipedia

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    They are an important prey species, being the primary diet in prairie species such as the black-footed ferret, swift fox, golden eagle, red tailed hawk, American badger, coyote, and ferruginous hawk. Other species, such as the golden-mantled ground squirrel, mountain plover, and the burrowing owl, also rely on prairie dog burrows for nesting areas.

  7. List of mammals of Texas - Wikipedia

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    Additionally, its proximity to Mexico is such that many species found there and into Central America also range as far north as Texas. [1] Texas recognizes three official mammals: the nine-banded armadillo, the Texas Longhorn, and the Mexican free-tailed bat. State law protects numerous species.

  8. Tallgrass prairie - Wikipedia

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    Flowering big bluestem, a characteristic tallgrass prairie plant. The tallgrass prairie is an ecosystem native to central North America.Historically, natural and anthropogenic fire, as well as grazing by large mammals (primarily bison) provided periodic disturbances to these ecosystems, limiting the encroachment of trees, recycling soil nutrients, and facilitating seed dispersal and germination.

  9. List of mammals of Wyoming - Wikipedia

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    Occurrence: Basin-prairie and mountain-foothills, shrublands, eastern great plains and great basin-foothills grasslands, sagebrush-grasslands The pronghorn (Antilocapra americana), is a species of artiodactyl mammal native to interior western and central North America.