Furman University - Campus as Habitat

TAXONOMIC SURVEYS - MAMMALS

As part of Furman University's "Campus as Habitat" project, Sarah Lyons (class of '13, pictured at right with a Cotton Rat) began a formal survey of mammals in summer 2010. Sarah was supported with a Furman Advantage Research Stipend. This species list was developed from that survey, and from records of specimens in the Furman University Zoological Collection. If you take a picture of a species not shown below, please send your picture -- noting the date, time, and place -- to Wade Worthen (wade.worthen@furman.edu). Your picture will be added to our list as your observation.

Move the cursor over the name of a species, and a picture of that species will appear to the right.


C = specimen in Furman Collection
O = observed, no picture

otherwise photographed and released

ORDER: DIDELPHIMORPHIA

Family Didelphidae (Opossums)

ORDER: RODENTIA

Family Castoridae (Beavers)

Family Sciuridae (Squirrels)

Family Muridae (Rats and Mice)

ORDER: LAGOMORPHA

Family Leporidae (Rabbits and Hares)

ORDER: SORICIMORPHA

Family Soricidae (Shrews)

Family Talpidae (Moles)

ORDER: CHIROPTERA

Family Vespertilionidae (Vesper Bats)

Family Mormoopidae (Free-tailed Bats)

ORDER: CARNIVORA

Family Felidae (Cats)

Family Canidae (Wolves and Foxes)

Family Ursidae (Bears)

Family Procyonidae (Raccoons)

ORDER: ARTIODACTYLA

Family Cervidae (Deer)


All pictures were taken by Sarah Lyons or with motion-sensitive cameras, on campus, unless otherwise noted as a "stock photo". Bat pictures courtesy of Dr. Mark Yates, who netted the bats..