page_title: Mammals of the Indiana Dunes
section_title: Wet prairie
hierarchical_section_title: Mammals of the Indiana Dunes / Prairie / Wet prairie
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Beschreibung: Nordamerikanische Waschbär (Procyon lotor). English: Raccoon (Procyon lotor). Français&#160;: Raton laveur (Appellé Racoon en Guadeloupe) (Procyon lotor). Author: Darkone, 5. August 2005
context_page_description: Thirty-seven species of mammals have been identified at Indiana Dunes National Park. Four other species are thought to inhabit the park, but have not been documented: the northern long-eared myotis, the Indiana bat, the hoary bat, and the southern bog lemming
  Common mammals seen by visitors and residents include the eastern cottontail, the eastern fox squirrel, the white-footed mouse, the white-tailed deer, and the meadow vole. Extirpated mammals include the common porcupine, the wolf, the red wolf, the black bear, the fisher, the North American river otter, the cougar, the Canada lynx, the bobcat, the elk, and the American bison. There are two threatened or endangered species in the dunes. The American badger, on the Indiana threatened list is known to inhabit the area. The Indiana bat, on the federal endangered list is presumed to inhabit areas of the dunes.
context_section_description: Shrub layer with of willow, aspen, and oak. Some of the major grasses were reed canary grass and blue joint grass. Cattails and rushes were also dominant in some areas. Cover ranged from animals being able to hide in clumps animals able to move about without being seen.
  Species found
  
  The masked shrew was most prominent.  Meadow vole had been seen along the edge of wet areas at Hoosier Prairie. The white-footed mouse and the northern short-tailed shrew also in abundance. Other mammals were prairie deer mice, common raccoons, meadow vole, and meadow jumping mouse. Sign of the eastern mole, the woodchuck, the common raccoon and the white-tailed deer were seen.
caption: Raccoon
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