Animals of Louisiana!!!

Nutria

Alligators

Turtles Salamanders

Herons

Egrets

Snakes

Muskrat

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Nutria

•An adult nutria is about 14 inches long from the nose to the base of the tail. 

•The tail is about12 to 17 inches long it is round, and hairless. 

•The whiskers are about 4 inches long.

•They have 20 teeth, and include 4 large incisors that allows the nutria to cut off underwater plants without getting water into its mouth.

•Nutria average weight is 16 to 18 pounds.

•There front feet have five toes the hind feet are much larger.

•All of the toes are connected by a skin web except for the little toe.

  They live in: Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi and Florida. There are a lot of other nutrias in the areas of Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia and Maryland as well as in the waterways of Washington and Oregon.

Egrets

•Egrets eat small fishes, frogs, lizards, snakes, shrimps, fiddler crabs, crawfishes, grasshoppers and water insects.

•Great egrets live in the water.

• They live near marshes.

• They fly south for the winter. They go far north in the summer.

•Great egrets make their nests high up in trees.

• Their nests are made of sticks.

• They have five or six eggs.

They eat crayfish, frogs, dead animals.

Minks, herons and hawk eat muskrats.

They live in wetlands and marshes.

Muskrat are found anywhere in north

America.

Herons

The great white heron eats fish,

Frogs, tadpoles, snakes, mice, young birds

And insects.

The great blue heron eats fish, frogs,salamanders, snakes and small

mammals. They live in north America.

They are 38and 54 inches in length.

Salamanders

About salamanders• Louisiana’s state salamander is the slimy salamander

• It eats mites, spiders, centipedes, millipedes

• Also earth worms, insects, snails

•They lay eggs in the summer under rotten logs

Turtles

About turtles

•The cypress turtle is the state turtle

• they grow up eight inches long

• It has red markings around the edge of its shell

• the shell has little plates called scutes

• It eats fish

Alligators have 80 teeth

Adult males are rare if they are larger than 4.5 m

They swallow their food in a flash

They rarely bother humans

They are common in Florida and Louisiana

Young alligators eat insects, crawfish, small fish, frogs, and much more.

Adults eat beavers, snakes, turtles,deer, shore birds, and much more .

Alligators are about 8” -12” when they are born They grow about 2’’-12” per year Females weighs 150 pounds and are 9”Males are 13” and weighs 50+ pounds

EGGS

• they live in Alabama- Florida • adults are 5-7 feet long • they are protected by the law • their body is heavy • their movement is very powerful

Authors Page

www.montereybay.com

www.nationaltrappers.com.nutria.html

www.nighthawkpublication.com

www.nvo.com

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www.tripod.com

www.humboldt.com

www.zooregan.org.carded

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