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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Chordates
  4. Mammals
  5. Even-toed Ungulates
  6. Ruminants

suborder

Ruminants

Ruminantia

Includes
11 native 24 introduced 5 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Deer 5 native
  • Bovids 5 native
  • Pronghorn and Relatives 1 native
  • Mouse Deer
  • Giraffids
  • Musk Deer

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Most observed native ruminants All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • White-tailed Deer Odocoileus virginianus 418,929 observations
  • Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus 205,817 observations
  • Moose Alces alces 70,714 observations
  • Wapiti Cervus canadensis 63,888 observations
  • American Bison Bos bison 33,449 observations
  • Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis 33,057 observations
  • Pronghorn Antilocapra americana 26,426 observations
  • Caribou Rangifer tarandus 12,698 observations
  • Mountain Goat Oreamnos americanus 10,091 observations
  • Thinhorn Sheep Ovis dalli 2,483 observations
  • Muskox Ovibos moschatus 2,411 observations

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