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Discover the world of mammals — warm-blooded vertebrates that nurse their young with milk, spanning from the tiniest shrews and bats to elephants, whales, and primates, across every habitat on Earth.
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Before you call anyone about the scratching sounds in your attic, know this: bat removal laws in New Hampshire treat these animals far differently than raccoons or squirrels.
Most Tennesseans assume keeping a coyote is flatly illegal, given how often the animal shows up in nuisance-wildlife complaints.
New York treats the eastern coyote (Canis latrans) as a protected furbearer species, not a domestic animal you can pick up from a breeder or rescue.
Tennessee is home to more than 6,000 caves, roughly a fifth of all the caves in the United States, which makes the state one of the most important bat habitats in the country.
Finding a bat colony in your attic can feel like an emergency, but rushing to seal them in or spray them with poison is one of the fastest ways to break Oklahoma law.
Finding bats in your attic feels like an emergency, but acting too fast in Wisconsin can land you in legal trouble.
If you raise pigs in Colorado — whether on a small hobby farm along the Front Range or a larger purebred operation on the Eastern Plains — understanding swine ear notching rules is not optional.
A Minnesota man once walked a coyote puppy through a public dog park in Eden Prairie, off-leash, and no officer on scene could cite a law he’d broken.
Oregon has no closed season and no bag limit on hunting coyotes, yet keeping that same animal alive in your backyard is a different matter entirely.
Every bat species that calls South Carolina home is legally protected, yet the state does not require a permit before you send them packing from your attic.
Can you own a coyote in Colorado? The short answer is no, and the reason has less to do with the animal’s temperament than with how Colorado law treats wildlife in general.
If you’ve watched a coyote trot across a desert wash near Las Vegas or Reno and wondered whether one could ever live in your backyard, Nevada’s answer is short: no.
A single bat can eat thousands of mosquitoes in one night, which is part of why bat removal laws in Delaware focus on relocation rather than elimination.
Finding a bat colony in your attic in Georgia comes with a legal wrinkle most homeowners never see coming: every single one of the state’s native bat species is protected, and getting the timing or method wrong can turn a simple pest problem into a wildlife violation.
If you have ever watched a coyote trot across a Texas pasture at dusk and wondered whether you could legally keep one, you are not alone.
If you’ve ever wondered whether you can own a coyote in Rhode Island, the short answer sits at the intersection of two overlapping legal categories: native wildlife protection and exotic animal permitting.
Ear notching has been a cornerstone of swine identification on American farms for generations, and North Dakota pig owners still rely on it today — but the rules governing when a notch counts as official identification are more specific than most producers realize.
Finding a bat circling your bedroom or hearing scratching in the attic sends most Texans straight to Google, and the first question is rarely about biology.
Most states treat coyotes strictly as wildlife to be hunted, trapped, or avoided.
Finding a colony of bats in your attic is stressful enough without wondering whether you’re about to break the law by getting rid of them.
