For National Maryland Day, let’s see what critters we can meet in this small state.
Plenty of white-tailed deer. Possibly too many.
Black bears
Foxes
Coyotes
Bobcats
Raccoons
Otters
There is a colony of feral horses on the offshore island of Assateague, rounded up yearly and swum across the channel to be sold, to keep them from overrunning the island’s resources.
The Chesapeake Bay retriever was bred here, the first individual retriever breed recognized by the AKC, and the mascot of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
The mascot of the University of Maryland, College Park, is the diamondback terrapin.
The official state bird is the Baltimore oriole.
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