More Animals You May Not Know / myLot

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March 8, 2016 8:05am CST

More Animals You May Not Know Pika: Any one of several small, brown to gray, tailless mammals that resemble rabbits. They have short legs and ears and live in the western mountains of North America and parts of eastern Europe and Asia. Caecilian: It is a legless, wormlike tropical amphibian, also called a blindworm, because it spends most of its life underground and is usually blind or almost blind. Kinkajou: It’s a brownish, arboreal mammal that has a prehensile tail and lives in Central and South America. It is related to the raccoon and coati. Coati: It is a tropical American carnivore that is related to the raccoon. It has a long body, a long ringed tail and a slender flexible snout. Axolotl: It is a salamander that lives in lakes and ponds in Mexico. They remain in the larval stage throughout life, under natural conditions, but are able to reproduce. You can go online and see a picture of each of these unusual animals.

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Morgan

@OneOfMany (12150)

• United States

8 Mar 16

I like Pika. I was at Grand Teton National Park with my family and my mother and I went off a trail and sat on a rocky area to eat lunch. All of a sudden these small animals started darting about and one jumped up onto the rock adjacent to us. It was really cute. Then there were a lot more of them and they didn't mind us around at all. They were just happy creatures. Later we asked the guide about them and he told us they were Pika, and "good sighting!" The place was lousy with them, all you had to do was leave the trail. Pika and rabbits are the only members of the Lagomorph family. Pika were more numerous and there was even a giant species in the Mediterranean area up until the 1500s (I think, it's been a while since I read about it). They were hunted into extinction for their meat.

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Alice Henry

@IreneVincent (15960)

• United States

8 Mar 16

I have been to the Grand Teton National Park too, several years ago, but do not remember seeing any of the pika. So many animals are hunted to extinction. It's very sad.

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Morgan

@OneOfMany (12150)

• United States

9 Mar 16

@IreneVincent I forget which side it was on, but it was where a large rock slide had happened once, and there were rocks all over the place and no vegetation.

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Alice Henry

@IreneVincent (15960)

• United States

9 Mar 16

@OneOfMany Here is a picture of my brother and his son at Jackson Hole. My family went with his family and my youngest brother's family. We went on a 5 1/2 week camping trip, covering over 7000 miles and traveling through 17 states. This was just one of our many stops.

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