Mammals in Minnesota (a partial list)

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*RSG - Animals listed on the Rare Species Guide

• American (Pine) marten
• Badger
• Bats
  • Eastern pipistrelle *RSG
  • Northern myotis *RSG
  • White-nose Syndrome in Bats
• Beaver
• Bison
• Black bear
• Bobcat
• Canada lynx
• Chipmunk
• Cougar (Mountain Lion) *RSG
  • Cougars in Minnesota
• Coyote
• Elk *RSG
  • Elk hunting
• Fisher
• Foxes
  • Gray fox
  • Red fox
• Gray wolf (Timber wolf) *RSG
  • Wolf management
• Groundhog/Woodchuck
• Mice, voles and rats
  • Heather vole *RSG
  • Northern bog lemming *RSG
  • Plains pocket mouse *RSG
  • Prairie vole *RSG
  • Woodland vole *RSG
• Hares and rabbits
  • Eastern cottontail
  • Snowshoe hare
  • White-tailed jack rabbit
• Mink
• Moles
• Moose
• Muskrat
• Porcupine
• Raccoon
• River otter
• Shrews
  • Least shrew *RSG
  • Smoky shrew *RSG
• Squirrels
  • Flying squirrel
  • Fox squirrel
  • Gray squirrel
  • Red squirrel (Pine squirrel)
  • Thirteen-lined ground squirrel (Minnesota gopher)
• Skunks
  • Striped skunk
  • Eastern spotted skunk *RSG
• Virginia opossum
• Weasel
  • Short-tailed weasel (Ermine)
  • Long-tailed weasel
  • Least Weasel *RSG
• White-tailed deer