Adapted to high altitudes, their long shaggy fur can sometimes be used for wool.
What are Yaks?
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?
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?
These men wore bright red flannel, felt clothes, and spiked boots when they worked on the Grand River.
What are Lumberjacks?
Most species of these frogs are small, brightly colored, displaying various patterns to warn potential predators.
What is a Poison Dart Frog // Mantella ?
Cows are members of cud chewing mammals named for one of the Cow 4 digestive compartments they possess.
What are Ruminants?
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?
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?
The headwaters of the Grand River begin from natural springs in Hillsdale County in this township.
Somerset
This famous milkweed butterfly had it's own day, celebrated on September 9th.
What is the Monarch Butterfly?
Now found in every continent except for Antarctica, this beast of burden is particular well suited for tilling rice-fields.
What are Water Buffalo?
There a 40 located in the U.P. all but one found on the northern shores.
What are Lighthouses?
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?
This species used to be found within the Grand River example names could be Mucket, Three-ridge, and Pocketbook.
What are Clams / Mussels?
They are morphologically similar to the closely related porcupinefish.
What are Pufferfish / Blowfish?
They are largest surviving native terrestrial animals in North America and Europe.
What are Bison?
The highest point in Michigan located Baraga County.
What is Mount Arvon?
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?
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?
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?
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?
This National Park is named after the Mohawk chief who was the hero of a Longfellow's Poem.
What Hiawatha National Forest?
These foxes inhabit arid and semi-arid regions in the southwest United States and Northern Mexico.
What is the Kit Fox?
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?
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?