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Mudpuppy
Features: Large, feathery, external gills, slender legs with four toes on each foot, laterally flattened tail, dark stripe running through eye, snout is blunt, tail fins do not extend on to body Coloration: Gray to brownish to almost black, stomach speckled gray with a few large dark spots, larvae and juvenile have broad dark strips ...
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Southern Flying Squirrels in Kansas
SQUIRREL Photo by Bob Gress Southern Flying Squirrel Glaucomys volans Measurements: Total Length: 8-9 inches Tail Length: 3-5 inches Weight: 1.6-3 ounces Comments: Southern flying squirrels live in ... skin extending from their front to hind legs. When gliding they appear flat and square with a flattened tail that provides an efficient rudder to control their aerial maneuvers. Before landing the tail ...
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Muskrat, Ondatra zibethicus, control and management
Its large hind feet are partially webbed, stiff hairs align the toes (Fig. 2), and its laterally flattened tail is almost as long as its body. The muskrat has a stocky appearance, with small eyes and ... , derives from the paired perineal musk glands found beneath the skin at the ventral base of the tail in both sexes. These musk glands are used during the breeding season. Musk is secreted on logs or ...
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Techniques to control and manage tree squirrel damage
Fox squirrels (Fig. 1) measure 18 to 27 inches (46 to 69 cm) from nose to tip of tail. They weigh about 1 3/4 pounds (787 g) to 2 1/4 pounds (1,012 g). Color varies ... of flying squirrels are the broad webs of skin connecting the fore and hind legs at the wrists, and the distinctly flattened tail. Range Fox squirrels occur in much of the eastern and central United States, as well as in several ...
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Muskrats
While you will probably first notice them trundling about on the banks of the Willowbrook, muskrats are aquatic, with slightly-webbed hindfeet and a laterally flattened tail which they use like a rudder in the water to steer. Their laterally flattened tail is unique to muskrats; ...
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Manatees and How They Live - Script
Manatees have a horizontally flattened tail fluke and a pair of front flippers like whales do. But unlike whales, manatees live in ... vaguely similar to a whale's fluke. The manatee swims with slow undulations of the body and tail. Manatees are in fact so slow and leisurely, that many of them have algae or barnacles growing ...
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Predator Conservation Trust: Cheetah information
It is adapted for speed in the following ways: Small head that offers little resistance at high speed Long legs for large strides at high speed Flexible spine to allow for long strides Laterally flattened tail that is used as a rudder at high speed Enlarged liver, heart, lungs and vascular system to allow for extra oxygen ...
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STW - Cetaceans
Propulsion is accomplished by the vertical motion of the horizontally flattened tail flukes or tail. Cetaceans are essentially hairless, although hairs can still be seen on the snout of ... area and presumably helps minimize heat loss. It is believed that most cetacean calves are born tail first, so that the blowholes are last to emerge, in order that even in a complicated ...
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The Twins Nature Reserve
The Twins from West Point Island to the SSW. Groundsel seedlings were found in flattened disturbed sand and peat near entrances to Magellanic Penguin burrows. A few small plants of Lesser Swine ... prospecting for nesting sites. On North Twin, the remains of two other petrels were found; the tail of a Grey backed Storm-Petrel and wings of Diving Petrels. These may have been discarded ...
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Florida Museum of Natural History Ichthyology Department
These characteristics, plus the slender blade-like snout, coupled with 18-25 dorso-laterally flattened and broadened rostral teeth per side, easily distinguish knifetooth sawfish from other sawfishes. In northern Australian waters ... and 2.5 feet (0.5-0.8 m) in total length, and are probably born tail-first. The saw teeth of young sawfish do not fully erupt, and are also covered in ...
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