Critter Factbook

Field notes, not guesses

Animal facts, each one quoted from its source

What an animal eats, how long it lives, where it lives, whether it hibernates. Every answer here is one line long and sits next to the exact sentence it comes from, on a National Park Service, NOAA Fisheries or university extension page, with the species and place that sentence was about.

How each page is put together

  1. We only write an answer when an official or university source says it in plain words.
  2. The quote is copied word for word and checked against the source page. The date of that check is on every row.
  3. The Scope column says whose facts they are. A number for gray wolves in the Rocky Mountains is labelled that way, not passed off as true of every wolf.
  4. Anything the sources leave out is listed at the bottom of each page instead of being filled in.

Insects and ticks

Birds

Land mammals

Whales

12 animals and 91 sourced answers so far. More animals are added as we find a source that states the facts outright. See every source we use.