Well, there are the farm animals, cows, goats, sheep, pigs, horses, and we even have llamas and emus around here.
As for wildlife
Coyotes, red foxes, bobcats, badgers, weasels, striped skunks, white-tailed deer, eastern cottontail rabbits, jack rabbits (in the western part of the state), Indiana bats, little brown bats, big brown bats, plains pocket gophers, plains pocket mice, thirteen-lined ground squirrels, short-tailed shrews, harvest mice, meadow voles, prairie voles, meadow jumping mice, opossums, muskrats, beavers, flying squirrels, fox squirrels, grey squirrels, and raccoons are some of the mammals.
Birds include red-tailed hawks, robins, American redstarts, cardinals, bluejays, bobwhite quail, white pelicans, barn owls, barred owls, burrowing owls, short-eared owls, turkey vultures, turkeys, bald eagles, Cooper's hawks, American kestrals, greater prairie chickens, meadow larks, goldfinches, peregrine falcons, upland sandpipers, house wrens, house finches, chickadees, red-winged blackbirds, downy woodpeckers, flickers, indigo buntings, bluebirds, and great blue herons, to name a few.
Reptiles include smooth green snakes, prairie racerunners, ringneck snakes, eastern ribbon snakes, western hognose snakes, eastern massassaguas, little brown snakes, prairie skinks, ornate box turtles, snapping turtles, soft-shelled turtles, fox snakes, bullsnakes, and pond sliders.
Amphibians include the green frog, bullfrog, northern leopard frog, grey treefrog, Cope's grey treefrog, tiger salamander, American toad, Woodhouse's toad, and a few others.
There are a ton of insects and such as well.
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