Bovine Bonanza
Great North
Vera Natura Vulpes
A Grand Time
Passion For Poison
200
Adapted to high altitudes, their long shaggy fur can sometimes be used for wool.
What are Yaks?
200
The DNRE verified five sets of tracks and two trail camera photos in Delta, Chippewa, Marquette, and Menominee counties since 2008, of this big cat once thought extinct in Michigan.
What is a Cougar?
200
Can handle cold better than most animals on Earth. It doesn’t shiver until temps reach -94° F (-70° C).
What is the Artic Fox?
200
These men wore bright red flannel, felt clothes, and spiked boots when they worked on the Grand River.
What are Lumberjacks?
200
Most species of these frogs are small, brightly colored, displaying various patterns to warn potential predators.
What is a Poison Dart Frog // Mantella ?
300
Cows are members of cud chewing mammals named for one of the Cow 4 digestive compartments they possess.
What are Ruminants?
300
After this 1830s armed conflict, Michigan and Ohio signed a treaty and the Michigan official gained it's U.P.
What is the Toledo War?
300
This fox went viral as a meme in the early 2010's, particularly regarding it's unusually long face.
What is the Tibetan Sand Fox?
300
The headwaters of the Grand River begin from natural springs in Hillsdale County in this township.
Somerset
300
This famous milkweed butterfly had it's own day, celebrated on September 9th.
What is the Monarch Butterfly?
600
Now found in every continent except for Antarctica, this beast of burden is particular well suited for tilling rice-fields.
What are Water Buffalo?
600
There a 40 located in the U.P. all but one found on the northern shores.
What are Lighthouses?
600
The smallest fox species, its most distinctive feature is its unusually large ears, which serve to dissipate heat and listen for underground prey.
What is a Fennec Fox?
600
This species used to be found within the Grand River example names could be Mucket, Three-ridge, and Pocketbook.
What are Clams / Mussels?
600
They are morphologically similar to the closely related porcupinefish.
What are Pufferfish / Blowfish?
800
They are largest surviving native terrestrial animals in North America and Europe.
What are Bison?
800
The highest point in Michigan located Baraga County.
What is Mount Arvon?
800
Due to its presence in Australia, it is included on the list of the "world's 100 worst invasive species."
What is the Red Fox?
800
The area of land where all flowing surface water converges to a single point, The Grand River has the second largest in the entire state.
What is Watershed?
800
One of two snakes that can be poisonous. This Southeast Asian snake has salivary glands that secrete poison they ingest from eating poisonous toads.
What is a Keelback Snake?
1000
The sole member of the genus Tetracerus and confined to the Indian subcontinent, it's four horns distinguish it from most other bovine relatives.
What is the Four Horned Antelope?
1000
This National Park is named after the Mohawk chief who was the hero of a Longfellow's Poem.
What Hiawatha National Forest?
1000
These foxes inhabit arid and semi-arid regions in the southwest United States and Northern Mexico.
What is the Kit Fox?
1000
This urban stream in Kent County, is a tributary of the Grand River. The stream is named for the large deposit of gypsum found at its mouth.
What is Plaster Creek?
1000
With 1,717 documented species worldwide, this marine animal has leathery skin and an elongated body containing a single, branched gonad.
What is a Sea Cucumber?