Informative Essay On Badgers

...elk and other browsing animals behave differently when wolves are around. Instead of eating greenery down to the soil, they take a bite or two, look up to check for threats, and keep moving. The greenery can grow tall enough to reproduce.(578)

We have come to understand some of the wildlife that the inhabits this area and how

The Grizzly Bear is one of nature’s last keystone species that is contributing to the Western United states and Southwestern Canada. The Grizzly Bear is thought of as a vicious beast who kills people without intent. Grizzly Bears are actually important to the environment and ecosystem that they live in. This Bear is an intelligent animal, which serves a role of preserving a plant’s way of life. It creates soil disturbance which causes more nitrogen to be produced to generate more nutrients for plants.

increased because they could pick away at the left-over carcasses that the wolves left. The bears

elk killed by wolves also provides vital food source for predators such as grizzlies and black bears and for scavengers such as coyotes and ravens.

Reason #2: Scavengers thrive when wolves are around. The species that help themselves to wolves’ leftovers include ravens, magpies, wolverines, bald eagles, golden eagles, three weasel species, mink, lynx, cougar, grizzly bear, chickadees, masked shrew, great gray owl, and more than 445 species of

Without the northern harrier or animals in its family, what animals would protect the crops that we grow? We need crops to eat and also trade. Here are ways that the northern harrier helps in the world beyond just being in the ecosystem. Northern harriers help protect crops by reducing populations of field mice and other rodents. Unlike some other hawk species, they do not attack poultry-BioKids.edu. We should try and help the northern harrier because they help our crops. Humans should try to save this animals because they help our crops that we need in the future by reducing the problem of field mice. We need the crops to survive and eat and also trade, but if the field mice get to the crops then we won’t have anything to eat. The Northern Harrier is a really big help to our community and future. The recovery of the northern harrier in Connecticut depends on the conservation and protection of large areas of inland and coastal marshes, wet meadows, upland heaths, and grasslands through land acquisition or landowner agreements. Supporting measures to protect and enhance wintering habitats in Central and South America is also important. The nesting activities of the northern harrier are often difficult to survey and monitor. Therefore, any confirmed nests should be reported to the Wildlife Division (860-675-8130) to help increase our knowledge of the activities of these birds in Connecticut.

Some of the animals in the badger’s diet include woodrats, prairie dogs, kangaroo rats, pika, pocket gophers, marmots, moles, ground squirrels, deer mice, and voles. The badger is also a huge consumer of snakes. In South Dakota the badger is the most dominant predator of rattlesnakes, making the badger very important to the ecosystem. They also prey on ground nesting birds like burrowing owls, and bank swallow. Some of the smaller things the badger preys on would be insects such as bees, and reptiles like lizards, and fish and skunks.

Today one is lucky to see a deer in Washtenaw country, typically the most wild animal someone would come in contact with would be a squirrel in the daytime. That’s not the case for the little island in Lake Superior. Over 1500 moose call the island home. Nearly that many beaver do as well. At one point,

They were once found in different parts of North America ranging from Northern Mexico to Southern Canada. During the early and mid 1900s their populations in many Mideastern and western states of the United States of America reduced because they were hunted because of their high demand of fur. However, in the 1970s the international law began to protect them thus, reducing their high rate of decline (Hansen, 2006).

Mustela frenata is the scientific name of the long-tailed weasel. This scientific name of this species is known to be Latin and it refers to a bridle-like mask that is typical of weasel inhabitants in the southern sections of the United States. This species is also known as the bridled weasel or big stoat and it’s populated in much of Texas, mostly in the western, southern, and eastern parts of Texas. The long-tailed weasel is known for its looks of a small head with whiskers, a long body, and its short neck and legs. Throughout this research, we will discover that long-tailed weasels are solitary animals that live, reproduce, and thrive in southern sections of Texas.

Well lynx have been known to kill squirrels, rabbits and other small prey, this is done only in times of starvation. Snowshoe hare populations are known to follow a ten year cycle, Lynx populations are known to lag about two years behind that of the hare. Due to the dependence of the Lynx on the hare populations of the Lynx are varied on the accessibility of the snowshoe

* American badgers have huge foreclaws measuring up to 5 cm in length. They used it to dig up their burrows and to hunt their prey. It digs its prey out of the ground with its strong, sharp claws or sometimes the badger will instead dig into the burrow of an animal and wait for it to return.

Another unique thing about the pine marten along with the fisher and wolverine is that it only lives in the northern colder climates of North America, while most other weasels live throughout the continent. Martens can get very mean when encountering a predator or another marten, they will scratch bite and even give off an odor which will drive enemies away. Not many people now about martens partly because how they are so secretive and avoid

The product emulates the badger’s paws and their ability to dig at high speeds. Although badgers are not big in size, they have strong feet that allow them to dig extremely fast.