Making Mammals
This is the type of mammal trap made of wire, cable or a cord attached to an immovable object.
What is a snare?
This is the name of the family of which Scalopus aquaticus is a part.
What is Talpidae?
This is the family name for weasels.
What is mustelidae?
This is the scientific name for mule deer.
What is Odocoileus hemionus?
This is the genus for short-tailed shrews found in Iowa.
What is Blarina?
A variety of this general kind of trap is called the Museum Special.
What is a snap trap?
This is the order from which the lovable Virginia opossum hails.
What is Didelphimorphia?
This squirrel's scientific name is Latin for "silver mouse, flying".
What is Glaucomys volans?
This canid's name is latin for "cunning, cunning".
What is Vulpes vulpes?
This is the term describing gliding locomotion, like in flying squirrels.
What is glissant?
This type of trap involves a mammal falling down into a hole from which they cannot escape.
What is a pitfall trap?
This is the family of all squirrels found in Iowa.
What is Sciuridae?
This is the name describing walking with only the toes touching the ground (but not in hooved animals).
What is digitigrade?
This is the name of the only family of bats found in Iowa.
What is Vespertilionidae?
This is the term for when a mammal has two sets of teeth, an initial set that fall out, followed by permanent teeth.
What is diphyodont?
This is the two-word name for the system in use for naming mammals, which was developed in the 18th century by Carolus Linnaeus.
What is binomial nomenclature?
This is the common name for Myotis sodalis.
What is the Indiana bat?
This vole's scientific name is Latin for "small ear, yellow belly".
What is Microtus ochrogaster?
This bat's scientific name is comprised of Latin words meaning "shaggy tail, northern".
What is Lasiurus borealis?
If you found a bat in a building on Simpson's campus, it is most likely of this species.
What is Eptesicus fuscus?
This is the name for the book into which all data collected for a museum specimen should be recorded.
What is a catalog?
This is the name for the junction between two contiguous bones of the skull.
What is a suture?
This is the correct order of the 4 general tooth types in heterodont mammals, from the back (posterior) of the skull to the front (anterior).
What are molar, premolar, canine, and incisor?
This is the correct order of the 5 vertebrae types from anterior through posterior for most mammals.
What are cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacral, and caudal?
This member of the order Carnivora has a scientific name translated from Latin that means "before dog, washer".
What is Procyon lotor?