Turkeys sleep in trees. I knew this, but had forgotten it because I’m not out in the woods after dark much.
Skunks come in both 1 and 2 striped versions.
Foxes carry a toooooon of fatal diseases which WILL ALL EASILY PASS TO YOUR DOG! Do not let your dog near foxes and do not leave meat or dog/cat food outside if you have pets because you will get foxes.
A positive fox fact is they can roam up to 30 square miles (78 sq km) and keep several dens that they rotate through every week or 2 to fool predators.
Raccoons are another animal you shouldn’t encourage to hang out at your house. Besides they’re curiosity and agility making them very accidentally destructive to your stuff, theyn hold the world record for spreading rabies. Most animals will succumb to the disease in a week or 2. Raccoons will survive and be contagious for 1-2 YEARS!
Mouth frothyness is also one if the worst signs to look for to indicate rabies. It’s a very rare symptom, and usually does not show up until very soon before death. Raccoons especially are lacking in salivary glands to begin with, making the foamy mouth even less common. They don’t “wash” their food, so much as they are softening it to aid swallowing, like if you’ve seen people in a hot dog eating contest dip the buns in water.
The best way to tell if a wild animal has rabies, distemper, etc is that it is acting abnormally. He says the foxes will look to the sky and seem like they’re talking to themselves. But the best way to tell something is not right with a wild animal is if it lets you or your pet anywhere near it! Wild animals don’t want to be anywhere near us or our pets. We are a natural threat to them for many reasons, and if they let us approach, something is likely very wrong with them!
The alpha wolf eats first and then pees on the rest of the food when he’s done to keep the other pack member’s in their place.
Wolf howls also supposedly do not create an echo. This allows them to communicate, but not to alert all their potential prey of their exact locations.
Grey foxes can climb trees like a cat due to their flexible wrists. They sometimes will live many feet up in hollowed out trees.
Red foxes can be grey. They had a red and a grey Red Fox there. They way to tell if it’s a red fox is if the tail looks like it was dipped in white paint, it’s a red fox.
There were a few new owl facts, but I’m going to save them for later.
This wasn’t even all we learned in the hour tour. I was so glad I stayed for it. I thought I knew more about some of these animals than I did.