Animals

= ** White-tailed Deer ** = The white tailed deer eats legumes, shoots, leaves, cacti, grass and mushrooms. Our white-tailed deer lives in the Willamette Valley. Their predators include wolves, cougars, bears and coyotes. They look like a medium tan or brown horse like mammal. Males are also bucks and they have antlers. The white tailed deer comes in a lot of sizes. Why does the white tailed deer live here because of its habitat.

The white tailed deer is successful because it hunts. The deer has large populations because most humans must help control the deers population. The deer is able to reproduce a lot of times. Most of the times the weather in the Willamette is 40.0 that is cold. The white tailed deers food and diet is the food they eat and the stuff that they take. The fur makes the deers skin camouflage to its predators. It is has good fast skills, good at hearing and makes an alarm sound to escape from their predators. The males have antlers to fight with other males. Has fur to keep them warm during the w inter and helps them swim too. It has strong legs to run/escape from the danger, and make long jumps.

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=**Bobcat**= This feared wildcat is the called bobcat. It has a bobbed tail with pointy ears and black eyes with a beard and little spots on it's legs. It lives in forests in the Willamette Valley. It can also live in swamps, desserts, and suburban areas. The bobcat's diet is bats, birds, mice, poultry, young pigs, adult deer, lamb, and rabbits. The bobcat depends on seasons winter, and spring. They also depend on location and habitat. Though nothing depends on this wildcat.

This animal can maintain a large population by staying hidden from humans so they don't get hunted. This is also how the bobcat is successful. It adapts to it's habitat by having a winter coat to keep warm and so it can stay hidden from it's prey. For Spring it has a rain coat and if it gets to hot it can shed it's fur a little. The bobcat reproduces by a female and a male to meet. Then when the female is pregnant, she will have three or four babies. Then the babies will be with their mother till' they are about one or two. After that the mother leaves her babies and the young bobcats will go their own path.

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The Western Meadowlark lives in Oregon and other states. The Western Meadowlark is the Oregon state bird. It was voted the state bird by kids in school. They live on meadows and valleys. The Western Meadowlark eats beetles, cutworms, caterpillars, grasshoppers, spiders, snow bugs, and snails.

They have black and white striped heads, yellow neck, and a black " V " shape on its chest. They lay between 3 to 7 eggs. They make nests from May to July. They build their nests on the ground. They are members of the blackbird family. They have a distinctive song.

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@http://www.theinfomine.com/2010/04/12/wildlife-in-your-backyard-attracting-western-meadowlarks/

@http://www.nhptv.org/natureworks/westmeadowlark.htm

@http://montanakids.com/facts_and_figures/state_symbols/State_Bird_Western_Meadowlark

The Gray Wolf is a dark gray and white. A gray wolf is a mammal. The gray wolf is a cousin to the Canis Lupus. The gray wolf eats large animals like elk, deer, moose and caribou. Gray Wolves also eat beaver, rabbits and other small animals. Wolves are always hunting and often eat animals that have died from disease. The gray wolf can go two weeks with out food. The gray wolf is the largest wild dog in the dog family.

The male is always larger then the female. Gray wolves are one of the most wide ranging land animals. Coyotes will kill gray wolves or any wolf that are alone or that are young. The gray wolf will live 5 to 6 years old, as adults they either die from old age or from injuries from hunting or fishing with other wolves. The powerful pair in a grey wolf pack are the only members that breed. With the death of an alpha individual, a new alpha male or female will take over as the leader. The female wolf can have 4-7 puppies in a litter.

(source)s http://dfw.state.or.us/Wolves/human_interactions.asp http://www.biokids.umich.edu/critters/Canis_lupus/ http://www.defenders.org/gray-wolf/basic-facts http://www.mn2020.org/issues-that-matter/views/successful-enough-to-hunt-minnesotas-gray-wolves