On Lewis and Clark's expedition, they encountered 120 mammals, reptiles, and fish. .Clark shot "a Prarie Wollf, about the Size of a gray fox bushey tail head & ear like a wolf." "It is a carniverous anamal .
"The Corps' journalists documented the men's learning curves as they figured out how to hunt them, wrestled with suitable names, observed their relations with Indians, analyzed their strengths and weaknesses, took their measurements from various perspectives, and above all learned to admire and respect them.The ubiquitous American elk was a staple in both the diet and the journals of Lewis and Clark. Lewis wrote his description of what proved to be a new species on May 5, 1805, in northeastern Montana.Private Whitehouse and Sergeant Gass recorded that passing Indians told of a whale washed ashore south along today's Oregon coast. States. The Lewis and Clark expedition resulted in the discovery or observation of more than 300 plants and animals. On their trek, they encountered the Eastern, Manitoban, Rocky Mountain, and Roosevelt subspecies.Lewis got his first close look at that "large hare of America," when one of the Corps' ace hunters, Private John Shields, bagged the first specimen more than 1,100 miles (by Clark's estimate) up the Missouri River. The, during the winter in North Dakota, the Hidatsas had told Lewis and Clark about there’s this ferocious animal that lives where you’re gonna be going. The men found a sloping hillside containing “great numbers of holes on top of which these little animals Set erect make a Whistling noise and whin alarmed Step into their hole.”But Lewis, overburdened in his new post as governor of Louisiana, died suddenly in 1809, and when the expedition journals were finally published in 1814, the editors left out almost all of the zoological and scientific reports. . it is nearly double the size of the whistleing squirrel of the Columbia. the upper lip is split or divided to the nose. And certainly no others demanded more care than the six live specimens—including one prairie dog—that endured a four-month, 4,000-mile cage-bound odyssey to Washington City and Philadelphia.While constructing Fort Clatsop, Clark recorded two significant transactions: "The Indians left us to day after brackfast, haveing Sold us 2 of the robes of a Small animal for [with] which I intend makeing a Capot, and Sold Capt Lewis 2 Loucirvia Skins for the Same purpose. as soon as the hard frosts commence it shuts up it's burrow and continues within untill spring. Notwithstanding the clumsiness of his form, he is remarkably active, and burrows in the ground with great rapidity. "Lewis wrote a description of the eastern gray squirrel, the first of his natural history observations, on September 11, 1803, twelve days after he left Pittsburgh on his voyage down the Ohio .
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six or eight usually reside in one burrow to which there is never more than one entrance. The flesh of this animal is not unpleasant to the taste.© 2003 Steve Sherman, Lone Wolf Photography.Each foot has five toes; the two outer ones are much shorter than those in the center. From the extremity of the nose to the end of the tail this animal measures one foot and five inches, of which the tail occupies four inches. Animals and plants found in the Louisiana purchase were "new" to Americans. about 4 acrs of Ground on a Gradual decent of a hill and Contains great numbers of holes on the top of which those little animals Set erect make a Whistleing noise and whin allarmed Slip into their hole— we por'd into one of the holes 5 barrels of water without filling it, Thos Animals are about the Size of a Small Squrel .