Animal Trivia #2

• An opossum has 50 teeth - more teeth than any other mammal found in Kansas.

• The oldest government-owned buffalo herd in Kansas can be seen at the Finney Game Refuge, one mile south of Garden City.

• An active badger may dig a new sleeping burrow every day during warm weather, causing considerable damage to farm fields, conservation areas, and pastures.

• 250 prairie dogs can eat as much grass as one cow.

• Mule deer are larger than white-tail deer and run with their talks down.  Mule deer also have larger ears than white-tail deer, large enough to notice the difference at a distance.

• In Kansas, beaver usually dig their dens in stream banks rather than building free-standing lodges.

• An armadillo leaps straight up - not to the side or forwards or backwards.

• The opossum is the only pouched marsupial native to the United States.

• In Kansas, there are 50,000 - 75,000 acres of prairie dog towns.

• Unless bitten on the nose, a badger is not harmed by a rattlesnake's bite and often hunts these snakes as prey.