Mammals by Traits

Question 1

Northern yellow bat

Answer 1

Yellow color

Question 2

Southeastern bat

Answer 2

Tail fully webbed, white “vampire” incisors

Question 3

West Indian Manatee

Answer 3

Unique skull, homodont

Question 4

Bottlenose dolphin

Answer 4

Long skull, homodont

Question 5

Southeastern pocket gopher

Answer 5

External cheek pockets

Question 6

Striped skunk

Answer 6

Stripe on head, rostrum is compressed but skull/cranial cavity are stretched

Question 7

Eastern spotted skunk

Answer 7

“Marbled” fur, spots on head

Question 8

Northern raccoon

Answer 8

Striped tail, skull has no defining features

Question 9

Coyote

Answer 9

Y-shaped sagittal crest

Question 10

Red fox

Answer 10

V-shaped sagittal crest

Question 11

Gray fox

Answer 11

U-shaped sagittal crest

Question 12

Cottontail rabbit

Answer 12

Bicolor tail, complex “lacy” rostrum and extra “peg” incisors, diastema

Question 13

Marsh rabbit

Answer 13

Brown tail

Question 14

American black bear

Answer 14

Complex lacy rostrum, large skull

Question 15

Long-tailed weasel

Answer 15

Bicolor, black tail tip

Question 16

Bobcat

Answer 16

Spotted legs, huge zygomatic arch for big eyes

Question 17

Florida panther

Answer 17

Big skin

Question 18

American Fox Squirrel

Answer 18

Black cap, white chin, potentially melanistic. Large diastema, orange incisors

Question 19

Florida deermouse

Answer 19

5 plantar pads on the hind feet

Question 20

Cotton deermouse

Answer 20

6 plantar pads on the hind feet

Question 21

Short-tailed shrew

Answer 21

Tiny little skull with red tipped teeth, tail longer than least

Question 22

Virginia opossum

Answer 22

50 teeth, defined sagittal crest

Question 23

American beaver

Answer 23

Large diastema and orange incisors

Question 24

Nutria

Answer 24

Guard hairs and webbed feet

Question 25

House mouse

Answer 25

Tail is equal to or greater than body length

Question 26

Marsh rice rat

Answer 26

Visible ears, super bicolored in body and tail

Question 27

Southern flying squirrel

Answer 27

Skin flaps

Question 28

Gray squirrel

Answer 28

Long body, not melanistic in FL

Question 29

Round-tailed muskrat

Answer 29

Webbed feet, bicolor

Question 30

Hispid cotton rat

Answer 30

Rough fur with guard hairs

Question 31

Eastern woodrat

Answer 31

Little white feet, tail less than body

Question 32

Oldfield deermouse

Answer 32

Sandy color (found by dunes)

Question 33

Roof rat

Answer 33

Tail > body, oldworld

Question 34

Norway rat

Answer 34

Tail = body, oldworld

Question 35

American mink

Answer 35

Chocolate color with white chin

Question 36

American river otter

Answer 36

5 toe pads, chocolate bar. Flat and bulbous cranium

Question 37

Least shrew

Answer 37

Tiny, shortest tail

Question 38

Southern mole

Answer 38

Digging claws, long rostrum and compressed flat cranium

Question 39

Woodland vole

Answer 39

Visible eyes and ears, unlike shrews

Question 40

Golden mouse

Answer 40

Golden color

Question 41

Free-tailed bat

Answer 41

Webbing does not extend to full length of tail

Question 42

Nine-banded armadillo

Answer 42

Obvious in skin and skull

Question 43

White-tailed deer

Answer 43

No upper incisors

Question 44

Feral hog

Answer 44

Triangle skull, canines that extend into tusks