Herbivores
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Name: |
Bison |
| Description: | Males can stand six feet and weigh between 1000-2000 pounds. Females are around five feet tall and weigh between 800-1000 pounds. |
| Habitat: | They live in plains, prairies, river valleys. |
| Diet: | There diet is made up of mostly grasses and sedges |
| Predators: | People |
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Name: |
Moose |
| Description: | They 7.5 feet and
weight over 1700 pounds.
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| Habitat: | Moose
live near swamps, streams or ponds where there are lots of trees
and aquatic plant.
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| Diet: | They feed on aquatic
plants like water lilies. They often use their antlers to dig up
plants on the bottom of ponds. In the winter, they browse on
woody plants like the twigs and bark of willow, balsam, birch,
aspen and dogwood trees
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| Predators: | People are the predators.
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Name: |
Golden-mantled ground squirrel |
| Description: | They are small with two stripes. |
| Habitat: | They live in mixed coniferous-hardwood forests. |
| Diet: | nuts and fruits. |
| Predators | Foxes and people. |