North American Animals

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Hint	Animal
National bird of the United States	Bald Eagle
Heaviest land animal in North America	American Bison
Powerful predator with a love for salmon	Grizzly Bear
Largest cervine with antlers	Moose
Wily canine that howls at night and adapts to cities	Coyote
Night-time bandit	Raccoon
Short-tailed wildcat	Bobcat
Freshwater swamp dweller with a toothy grin	Alligator
Fast-running bird famous in cartoons	Roadrunner
The only North American marsupial	Opossum
Canine with a flame-colored fur and a bushy tail	Red Fox
Nature's dam builder	Beaver
Lives in underground colonies and makes barking sounds	Prairie Dog
Winter white, summer brown, big feet for snow travel	Snowshoe Hare
Also known as a cougar or a puma	Mountain Lion
Armored mammal that rolls into a ball for defense	Armadillo

Hint	Animal
Large predator found in forests, can be black or brown	American Black Bear
Tiny mountain dweller that stores flowers	American Pika
Tufted ears and haunting hoots	Great Horned Owl
Small mammal with a big stink defense	Skunk
Sleek swimmer with playful behavior	North American River Otter
One of few venomous lizards, sluggish but lethal	Gila Monster
Dome-shaped shell, retracts fully into it	Eastern Box Turtle
Vibrating tail warns predators, venomous bite	Rattlesnake
Pack hunter with a haunting howl	Grey Wolf
Both sexes have antlers and migrate in massive herds	Caribou/Reindeer
Dives from the air to catch fish in its throat pouch	Brown Pelican
Long ears for heat control, very fast runner	Jackrabbit
"Sea cow" that grazes underwater, gentle and slow	Manatee
Drills into trees with its beak	Woodpecker
Shiny blue insect with one of the most painful stings	Tarantula Hawk Wasp

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