Canadensis Gallery

TOM-1751 Northern River Otter - mother and pups

TOM-1751
Northern River Otter - mother and pups
Northern Rockies - Montana - Wyoming - Western USA
Lontra canadensis
Summer
Tom & Pat Leeson
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Bighorn Sheep, Ram in rut

CAN-2976
Bighorn Sheep, Ram in rut
Colorado, USA
Ovis canadensis
Record spread of horns in male is 33 inches. Females have short straight horns. Both a browser and grazer and feeds on a great variety of plants. Probably lives to 15 years in the wild. Inhabits mountain slopes with few trees and rugged terrain. Gregarious. Sexes usually separate in summer. Rams join ewes and lambs in fall. Rutting season occurs in November and December. Males will often butt heads in order to establish dominance hierarchy for access to breeding females. Occurs in western North American from Baja California to western Canada
John Cancalosi
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North American beaver, Castor canadensis

North American beaver, Castor canadensis, and rakali or water-rat, Hydromys chrysogaster. . Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Frederic Cuvier's Dictionary of Natural Science: Mammals, Paris, France, 1816. Illustration by J. G. Pretre, engraved by Massard, directed by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin, and published by F.G. Levrault. Jean Gabriel Pretre (1780-1845) was painter of natural history at Empress Josephine's zoo and later became artist to the Museum of Natural History

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