Living Things

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Some terms from the reading–

Species Range:

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Activity periods:•

Nocturnal:

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Diurnal:•

Crepuscular:

Small Mammals

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Breakout groups–

Shrews

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Rabbits & Hares–

Ground Squirrels

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Pocket Gophers–

Kangaroo Rats & Pocket Mice

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Mice & Rats•

Be prepared to tell us something about your group –

description, range, activity period, life

history, diet.

Sonoran Desert -

Animals

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Desert shrew

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Botta’s pocket gopher

Jackrabbits

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Black-tailed •

Antelope

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Harris’

antelope ground squirrel

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Grasshopper mouse

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Banner-tailed Kangaroo Rat

Small Mammals -2

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Breakout groups–

Ghost-faced Bats

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American Leaf-nosed Bats–

Vesper Bats and Free-tailed Bats

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Foxes and Coyotes–

Procyonids

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Mustelids•

Be prepared to tell us something about your group –

description, range, activity period, life

history, diet.

▪Lesser Long-nosed Bat ▪California Leaf-nosed

Bat

Leaf-nosed Bats

Vesper Bats

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Pallid Bat•

Big Brown Bat

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Townsend’s Big- eared Bat

Mexican Free-tailed Bat

http://www.batcon.org/home/default.asp

Coyote

Procyonids

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Racoons, Ringtails, Coatis

Ringtails

Coatis

Skunks & Badgers

Large Mammals

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Breakout groups–

Small Cats

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Large Cats–

Deer and Elk

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Pronghorn Antelope and Bison–

Bighorn Sheep and Javelina

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Black Bear and Wolf•

Be prepared to tell us something about your group –

description, range, activity period, life

history, diet, what origin (NA, Old World, SA)?

Cats

Large Cats

Deer and Elk

Pronghorn Antelope and Bison

Three Living Peccary Species

New World Artiodactyls:distant relatives of pigs (Wild Boar)and Hippopotamus

NO RELATION to the Capybara - a large rodent.

Javelina

Bighorn Sheep

http://www.fws.gov/southwest/refuges/arizona/cabighrn.html

Bears