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The Pine Vole (Pitymys pinetorum) is known in GWMP only from Turkey Run Park. - Photo from Webster, Parnell and Biggs (1985). |
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A total of 24 species of mammals have been recorded from GWMP. These include four species of bats, Big Brown Bat (Eptesicus fuscus), Eastern Pipistrelle (Pipistrellus subflavus), Little Brown Myotis (Myotis lucifugus), and Eastern Red Bat (Lasiurus borealis). Other mammals known to occur within GWMP are White-footed Mouse (Peromyscus leucopus), House Mouse (Mus musculus), Eastern Mole (Scalopus aquaticus), Northern Short-tailed Shrew (Blarina brevicauda), Southeastern Shrew (Sorex longirostris), Pine Vole (Microtus pinetorum), Norway Rat (Rattus norvegicus), Muskrat (Ondatra zibethica), Beaver (Castor canadensis), Eastern Chipmunk (Tamias striatus), Opossum (Didelphis marsupialis), Eastern Cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus), Eastern Gray Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis), Southern Flying Squirrel (Glaucomys volans), Raccoon (Procyon lotor), Red Fox (Vulpes fulva), Gray Fox (Urocyon cinereoargenteus), Striped Skunk (Mephitis mephitis), Domestic Cat (Felis cattus), and Whitetail Deer (Odocoileus virginianus). The Allegheny Woodrat (Neotoma magister) was historically collected in Great Falls Park (1949), Turkey Run Park (1917), and Dyke Marsh (1897), but recent search efforts in 1998 and 2006 did not reveal the presence of this species and it is believed to be extirpated within GWMP.
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