White tailed deer - Smallest deer in Kansas, light bodied small ears reddish brown color in summer or grayish brown color in winter. White bushy tail that stands straight up when alarmed. Found in grasslands, and eats roots, leaves and tree bark. The Eastern cottontail is common at the Teter Nature Trail, and is an important food source for the fox , snakes , coyotes, and other meat eating animals . The fur of the Eastern cottontail is soft long and rusty brown in the summer and grayish brown in the winter.
Cottontails eat grasses, forbs, and bark of saplings.
Red bat - The Red bat is the most common bat in Butler County. It has a reddish brown colored fur, with short rounded ears. They eat small insects. They roost in trees, and they have 1 or 2 babies. Like all insectivorous bats, Red bats use echo location to sense the world around them.