Top 10 Favorite Wild Animals that Can Be Found in Urban/Suburban Neighborhoods
I'm an animal lover. Since I grew up in suburban and urban areas, I enjoy seeing what little wildlife I can. I'm pretty sure different areas have different wildlife, so please feel free to add what roams around in your town.These are common wild animals in my area. We occasionally get cougars, deer, and bears in the neighborhoods out here, but they're not too common. Plus, they're not really from urban or suburban areas. They wander down from the mountains, so I left them out.
Would love to see these beautiful birds. I have never seen an owl or a bat in real life. Only on television. Truth.
I love owls. Some of them get huge. They're really loud too.
Squirrels are members of the family Sciuridae, a family that includes small or medium-size rodents. The squirrel family includes tree squirrels, ground squirrels, chipmunks, marmots, flying squirrels, and prairie dogs amongst other rodents. They're American and in abundance. They seem to have chased off the native British red squirrel, which is so rarely seen now.
I like these guys even though they can be considered pests. If you watch them, they're actually quite comical sometimes.
The raccoon, sometimes spelled racoon, also known as the common raccoon, North American raccoon, northern raccoon and colloquially as coon, is a medium-sized mammal native to North America. They can be aggressive and can carry rabies. I still like seeing them though, especially when there is a family of them with little babies running around.
The praying mantis is an insect known for its distinctive posture of holding its front legs in a manner that resembles a prayer. It belongs to the Mantidae family and is characterized by its elongated body, triangular head, and large compound eyes. Praying mantises are skilled predators, often waiting... read more My favorite insect. I like the way they turn their heads to look at you. Creepy cool.
Hawks are a group of medium-sized diurnal birds of prey of the family Accipitridae which are widely distributed and varying greatly in size. A lot of them are over here. They get pretty big. Some of them will fly down, perch, and chill out near you.
I've had one fly down and eat his dinner (mouse) about 15 feet from me.
These guys get a bad rap. They used to freak me out. They look crazy mean with all those sharp teeth. In the face, they look like Baraka from Mortal Kombat. I'm fine with them now. They're harmless.
I feed two stray cats in my neighborhood. They come up with the cats and eat. At first, I was nervous about them fighting with the cats, but they're cool, so I let them eat too. They actually seem like they're buddies. I have three of them (one small, one medium, and one large) that come so often, I named them. The big one is Chompy, the medium one is Bitey, and the small one is Nibbler.
Frogs are a diverse and largely carnivorous group of short-bodied, tailless amphibians composing the order Anura. Here we have little ones in neighborhood creeks and ponds. But when I was living in Texas, there were these thick, stocky frogs all over the place.
I wasn't used to it, so it was cool to see.
Mostly blue-bellies and alligator lizards here.
Snakes are elongated, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes that can be distinguished from legless lizards by their lack of eyelids and external ears. Don't like them, don't hate them. Kinda exciting and cool to see them though.
Coyotes are canines native to North and Central America. They are highly adaptable and can thrive in a variety of environments, from forests and grasslands to urban areas. Coyotes have a similar appearance to domestic dogs but are typically smaller in size, with a bushy tail, erect ears, and a pointed... read more People are scared of them around here. I'm not big or intimidating (5'8, 150 lbs) and every time I've encountered one, they freak out and run away (maybe I'm really ugly?).
I've encountered a lot of coyotes in my life and never had one get aggressive.
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Foxes are small to medium sized animals and belong to the Canidae family along with other animals such as jackals, wolves, and domestic dogs. There are 37 species of fox but only 12 are considered true Vulpes. A fox's prey is small mammals, birds, reptiles, frogs, eggs, insects, worms, fish, crabs,... read more
The cougar, also commonly known as the mountain lion, puma, panther, or catamount, is a large felid of the subfamily Felinae native to the Americas. They have been protected for so long in California that they have no fear of humans, though they mostly keep hidden.
Being near people gives them access to an easy food source: domestic animals and pets.
They are primates that can live both in the wilderness and in cities.
Just like rhesus macaques, vervet monkeys are both wild animals and city animals.
In India, gray langurs are allowed to live in cities and are a common sight there.
Baboons are African and Arabian Old World monkeys belonging to the genus Papio, part of the subfamily Cercopithecinae. Believe it or not, chacma baboons can and do live in cities in South Africa, despite wrecking some man-made objects and stealing food.
The Mohol galago is found in the suburbs of Johannesburg and Pretoria in Africa. It makes sense that galagos are city animals, not just wild animals.
They are really cute-looking.
The leopard is one of the five "big cats" in the genus Panthera. It is one of the most adaptable and the most widespread big cat; it's secrets being:well camouflaged fur; its opportunistic hunting behaviour, broad diet, and strength to move heavy carcasses into trees; its ability to adapt to various... read more Strangely, Indian leopards are living in the city of Bera alongside humans, despite being large predators.
Bats are mammals of the order Chiroptera. With their forelimbs adapted as wings, they are the only mammals capable of true and sustained flight. Bats are more agile in flight than most birds, flying with their very long spread-out digits covered with a thin membrane or patagium. The smallest bat, and... read more
A hedgehog is any of the spiny mammals of the subfamily Erinaceinae, in the eulipotyphlan family Erinaceidae.
Hummingbirds are birds from the Americas that constitute the family Trochilidae. They are among the smallest of birds, most species measuring 7.5–13 cm. they are the cutest birds in the world
Snail is a common name that is applied most often to land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs.