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Critter Catalog

Detroit public school kids engaged in BioKIDS activities

mammals

Local animals in this group:

hispid cotton rat

Additional information:

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Encyclopedia of Life

cotton rats

Sigmodon

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hispid cotton rat
Sigmodon hispidus

yellow-nosed cotton rat
Sigmodon ochrognathus

University of Michigan Museum of Zoology

National Science Foundation

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