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Carnivore Information: (Picture goes below) Common Name:badger Scientific Name:Taxideinae Habitat:Habitat: Badgers are animals of open country. Their oval.

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1 carnivore Information: (Picture goes below) Common Name:badger Scientific Name:Taxideinae Habitat:Habitat: Badgers are animals of open country. Their oval burrows (ten inches across and four to six inches high) are familiar features of grasslands on sandy or loamy soils of the eastern plains or shrub country in mountain parks or western valleys. Badgers occasionally live above timberline. Favorite Meal:such as ground squirrels and pocket gophers Other Fun Facts: One to four young are born in early spring.

2 carnivore Information: (Picture goes below) Common Name: rattle snakes Scientific Name :Crotalus viridis Habitat: in the desert,plains, Forests, Backwater wetlands, Highland Mountains even can be found in cedar Trees. Favorite Meal: mice and rats Other Fun Facts: Snakes smell with their tongue. Smell is their strong sense. The snake’s forked tongue allows the snake to know the direction of the smell. Snakes are deaf—but they can sense sound vibrations. Snakes have poor eyesight.

3 Carnivore Information: (Picture goes below) Common Name:fox Scientific Name:vulpes vulpes Habitat:. The red fox makes its home in wooded areas, prairies and farmland Favorite Meal: The red fox eats a wide variety of foods. It is an omnivore and its diet includes fruits, berries and grasses. It also eats birds and small mammals like squirrels, rabbits and mice. A large part of the red fox's diet is made up invertebrates like crickets, caterpillars, grasshoppers, beetles and crayfish. The red fox will continue to hunt even when it is full. It stores extra food under leaves, snow or dirt.omnivore Other Fun Facts: The red fox can be found in most of the United States and Canada, except for the far north in Canada and Alaska and much of the western U.S. and Hawaii.

4 Carnivore Information: (Picture goes below) Common Name:wolverines Scientific Name:Gulo gulo Habitat: The wolverine can be found in boreal forests, mountains, open plains and the tundra. Favorite Meal: the wolverine is familiar to scavenging habits and will boldly feast on the carrion (rotting leftovers) of neighbors which may include dall sheep, moose, antelope, and caribou of the arctic Other Fun Facts: As highly territorial creatures, a wolverine can claim an area as big as 200 square miles of territory.

5 Carnivore Information: (Picture goes below) Common Name:Mountain lion or cougar Scientific Name:Puma concolor Habitat: In Colorado they are most abundant in foothills, canyons or mesa country. They are more at home in brushy areas and woodlands than in forests or open prairies. Favorite Meal: Mountain lions like to prey on deer, though they also eat smaller animals such as coyotes, porcupines, and raccoons. Other Fun Facts:Active year round, the lion’s staple diet is deer.


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