# Your local mammals

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-local-mammals/753762>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 3, 2016, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-local-mammals/753762 "2016-05-03T06:31:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2016, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-local-mammals/753762/61 "2016-05-04T22:44:01Z")

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Excluding humans and domestic dogs & cats:

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[li]Kangaroos [/li][li]Wallabies [/li][li]Echidna [/li][li]Wombats [/li][li]Foxes [/li][li]Rabbits [/li][li]Possums [/li][li]Bats [/li][li]Horses [/li][li]Cows [/li][li]Sheep [/li][li]Goats [/li][li]Llamas [/li][li]Alpacas[/li][/ul]  
All either from my workplace or a 15 walk from my house.

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**Author:** ![AngelSoft](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angelsoft/32/440_2.png) [@AngelSoft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelSoft)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2016, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-local-mammals/753762/62 "2016-05-04T23:08:20Z")

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South of Portland, Oregon. Out in the country so lots of pastures.

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[li]Cows[/li][li]Horses[/li][li]Deer[/li][li]Elk[/li][li]Feral Cats[/li][li]Coyotes[/li][li]Skunks[/li][li]Raccoons[/li][li]Possums[/li][li]Beavers, Nutria[/li][li]Gophers[/li][li]Shrews, Mice[/li][li]Squirrels, Chipmunks, Ground Squirrels[/li][li]Bobcat (rarely)[/li][li]Porcupine (rarely)[/li][li]Cougar (rarely)[/li][li]Black Bear (rarely)[/li][li]More Cows[/li][li]More Horses[/li][li]A Shit Load of Goats[/li][li]Alpaca, Llamas[/li]  
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**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2016, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-local-mammals/753762/63 "2016-05-04T23:28:45Z")

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In my yard or my neighbors’s:

Cats, dogs, squirrels, mice.

In the neighborhood:

Horses, goats, alpaca, llamas, giraffes and ostriches (Yeah, I know, not mammals, but still…)

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**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2016, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-local-mammals/753762/64 "2016-05-04T23:47:18Z")

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N.E. Indiana. Within ten miles of where I’m sitting and personally seen by me, in no particular order;

Possum  
Raccoon  
Groundhog  
Red Squirrel  
Chipmunk  
Skunk  
Deer  
Mole  
Vole  
Gopher  
Rabbit  
Mice  
Rats  
Bats  
Muskrat  
Beaver (only saw one once, during a flood)  
Mink  
Weasel  
Fox  
Coyote  
Bobcat (seen in my neighborhood but not by me.)  
Bison (Ok, they are being raised on a farm!)

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