Or other organism (excluding humans) or even a fossil.
I was thinking of what organism you would put on a sign, symbol, flag, stamp, coaster etc. to represent the wildlife of your region.
Specify where you live, of course.
2006-10-17 16:43:11 · 13 answers · asked by Perseus 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
I live in the Argentine pampas, so I'd say of course Pampas Grass (Cortaderia selloana) (it has been exported everywhere as an ornamental, but it's hardly abundant here anymore), along with Greater Rheas (Rhea americana) and the graceful but highly threatened Pampas Deer (Ozotoceros bezoarticus).
Pampas deer:
http://www.megadiversidade.com.br/Megadiversos/figura%20jpg/Brveado.jpg
Pampas Grass:
http://jeantosti.com/fleurs3/cortaderia1.jpg
Rheas:
http://www.cyberelk.net/sue/gallery/albums/finland/aco.sized.jpg
Although I'd prefer the Giant Anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla), which is more characteristic of Chacoan areas:
http://www.rainforest-alliance.org/resources/forest-facts/species-profiles/images/anteater.jpg
And there are also spectacular and unique fossils here, including the glyptodonts and the megatherids:
http://www.grisda.org/jgibson/Biogeography/Glyptodont.jpg
http://www.avph.hpg.ig.com.br/jpg/megatherium2.jpg
2006-10-21 05:01:56 · answer #1 · answered by Calimecita 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
A rat.
I live in the centre of a pretty horrible little town in the MIdlands surrounded by pubs and take aways and there's loads of them. I find my cats chewing on them all the time. Thankfully owning cats means I have never had one in my house. Apart from the one time one of them bought a live one in and it hid under the cupboards in the kitchen.
We called the council and then went out with the kids. We were going to stay at my Mum's until the council came and got rid of it (which they said would be "in 2-3 days time) because we have young kids and the idea of one of them getting bitten or something was not ideal really.
Anyway... We had to nip back in the house so my daughter could use the loo and we heard this scream from the toilet and there was the rat floating in the toilet dead. What I think happened was that it came out of it's hidey-hole and wanted to make a break for freedom in a house smelling of cats so it scampered into the toilet downstairs and jumped into the nearest thing that looked like an escape route. Rats are quite good swimmers but I figured this one wasn't.
I had to get my sister to lend me a galvanized rubber glove to pull the thing out of the loo and even then I daren't touch it so had to get a plastic spade and fish it out... very grim.
Have to say it looked quite cute really when it was dead.
2006-10-17 18:20:28 · answer #2 · answered by Martin G 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Lake Tapps, Washington. West coast. Salmon is what everyone else would probably say, I prefer to use the dead possum on the road symbol. I think it is a fair representation of my little town. Now, there is an ugly animal.
2006-10-17 16:51:26 · answer #3 · answered by Valerie 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
London. I stay close to a small part of scrubbery so we've truly some foxes round. they are no longer frightened of human beings truly, so I see them very nearly daily in the evenings. this is impressive to imagine that a touch large carnivore can live on in the technique the city. except foxes, the in difficulty-free words different mammals I see are squirrels - which also brighten my brick and urban day.
2016-12-04 22:54:29 · answer #4 · answered by marquard 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cool Question!!! I'm from south Texas so....I think the plant and animal would be the cactus and the armadillo. That's the first thing to come to my head.
2006-10-17 16:52:43 · answer #5 · answered by makingthisup 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Vancouver Island , Canada. Deer, I live in a semi forest area.
2006-10-17 17:20:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
X**&*@**% grey squirrels (near the south coast of England). They shouldn't be here - they were imported from N. America.
As for plants, probably pine trees
2006-10-18 06:38:46 · answer #7 · answered by Rozzy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably a cider apple tree - Somerset.
2006-10-17 21:06:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Finches, crows and magpies.
Lots of birds.
Foxes, Shrews and mice also..
Live in Rep of Ireland.
2006-10-18 23:37:28 · answer #9 · answered by Bastet 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Croydon: the chav/Pitbull terrier (My hometown)
Liverpool(My digs atm): fish and seagulls. I'm not that close to the Mersey, though :(
2006-10-18 03:19:04 · answer #10 · answered by swelwynemma 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋