Fish
This shark has a wide, flat head which gives it better vision. They can also swim sideways!
What is a Hammerhead Shark?
An iconic marine mammal, on Sanibel's city seal, known for using echolocation
What is a bottlenose dolphin?
The name for newly hatched frogs & toads
What is a tadpole?
The alligator's cousin found on Sanibel's golf courses
What is a crocodile?
A household animal that kills up to 3.7 billion birds in the US each year
What is a cat?
A "Silver King" that also has the ability to breathe air
What is a tarpon?
Our spotted big cat -- the Sanibel population has been noted to have longer back legs for traversing the mangroves
What is a bobcat?
Sanibel's big invasive toad species
What is the cane toad?
A lizard closely related to the more commonly seen, invasive brown anole
What is a Green Anole?
A wading bird that is genetically pink, not because of what it eats
What is a Roseate Spoonbill?
A striped fish with teeth eerily similar to a human's molars and incisors
What is a sheepshead?
Sanibel's (and the United States') only marsupial
What is the opossum? (Virginia opossum)
The anatomical feature lost by a tadpole when it changes into an adult
What is a tail?
This threatened testudinate digs burrows into the ground and is often seen near Sanibel bike paths
What is the Gopher Tortoise?
The "snake bird" you might see on a logo around the refuge
What is an Anhinga?
A fish often seen jumping out of the water on Wildlife Drive that's all business in the front, all party in the back
What is a mullet?
The animal considered to be manatees' closest living relative
What is an elephant?
The organ most adult amphibians use to breathe, other than their lungs
What is skin?
A dark, threatened snake species considered extirpated from Sanibel since 1999. Our trail is named after them!
What is the Eastern Indigo Snake?
The only hawk in North America to feed almost exclusively on live fish
What is an Osprey?
A fish named after both color and the noise it creates by rubbing muscles against its swim bladder
What is a red drum?
Sanibel's endangered rodent species
What is the Sanibel Rice Rat?
This oinking anuran is also called the Southern Bullfrog
What is a Pig Frog?
Sanibel's resident crocodile for almost 30 years, famous for her underbite
Who is Wilma?
This symbolic bird of prey was nearly brought to extinction, in part by overhunting and the use of DDT
What is a Bald Eagle?