"Was that a porcupine? It sure looked like a porcupine. Are there porcupines in Big Bend?" This handy checklist is a great aid to tell you whether to believe your own eyes!
Mammal Checklist for Big Bend National Park by park staff, revised 2009; based on lists by Adrey E. Borell & Monroe D. Bryant (1942) and Dr. David Easterla (1973); reviewed by Dr. James Scudday (1997) and Loren K. Ammerman & Robert Dowler (2009), reviewed 2019 by Sean Graham, Loren Ammerman, Raymond Skiles, and Tom VandenBerg.
A checklist of the 78 confirmed and 6 hypothetical mammal species observed in Big Bend National Park and Rio Grande Wild and Scenic River. The listing for each species include a key to relative abundance and notes about habitat and behavior.
24 page booklet, 4" x 6". Published by the Big Bend Natural History Association in cooperation with the National Park Service, 2019.
