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        • Pool and Splash Pad
        • Trails and Active Transportation
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        • Tree Planting
        • Tree Protection Bylaw
        • Rooted in Art
        • Business Tree Challenge
        • Street and Park Tree Inventory
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    PEI Mammals

    There are around 4000 different species of mammals in the world

    • currently, only 22 wild mammals in P.E.I. (excluding marine mammals)
      • 6 were introduced or recently arrive; non-native
      • 16 are native
      • 8 mammals have been extirpated in PEI

    Mammals...

    • have fur or hair
    • are warm-blooded 
    • give birth to live young
      • there are some exceptions
    • feed their young milk produced by the mother
    • are vertebrate; they have a back bone
    Native Mammals
    The Squirrels
    American Red Squirrel
    Eastern Chipmunk
    Flying Squirrel
    The Voles
    Meadow Vole
    Red-backed Vole
    Muskrat
    The Shrews
    Water Shrew
    Short-tailed Shrew
    The Mice
    Woodland Jumping Mouse
    Meadow Jumping Mouse
    Deer Mouse
    The Weasels
    Least Weasel
    American Mink
    Others
    Snowshoe Hare
    Red Fox
    Little Brown Bat

    Non-Native
    Beaver
    Eastern Coyote
    House Mouse
    Norway Rat
    Raccoon
    Striped Skunk

    Extirpated to PEI
    Black Bear
    Fisher
    Lynx
    Marten
    Moose
    River Otter
    Wolf
    Woodland Caribou

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