Kansas Mammals

What is the largest member of the deer family in Kansas?

• Whitetail deer

• Elk

• Moose

• Pronghorn Antelope

What mammal has an instinct to jump straight up when startled?

• Badger

• Opossum

• Nine-banded Armadillo

• Shrew

Pound for pound, what is the most powerful mammal in Kansas?

• Badger

• Bobcat

• Swift Fox

• Whitetail deer

What mammal "plays dead" when threatened?

• Nine-banded Armadillo

• Badger

• Least Shrew

• Virginia Opossum

What mammal must consume 60 - 100% of its body weight daily?

• Bat

• Least Shrew

• Deer Mouse

• Eastern Mole

What mammal uses echolocation to find its food?

• Virginia Opossum

• Badger

• Bats

• Eastern Mole

What mammal would rather crawl under fences than jump them?

• Whitetail deer

• Swift Fox

• Elk

• Pronghorn Antelope

What mammal uses its tail as a white flag to signal danger?

• Deer Mouse

• Elk

• Whitetail Deer

• Prairie Dog

What mammal hair can lay down equally well either frontways or backwards?

• Beaver

• Eastern Mole

• Prairie Dog

• Kangaroo Rat

What mammal can completely change its environment to suite its needs (creates ponds)?

• Eastern Mole

• Deer Mouse

• Kangaroo Rat

• Beaver