Animals of
Louisiana!!!
Muskrat
Nutria
Herons
Salamanders
Turtles
Snakes
Egrets
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Alligators
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.
Muskrat are found anywhere in north
America.
They live in wetlands and marshes.
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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me/projects3/wlanimal/gregret.htm