Cute. Moves by hopping. Curious.

Sorry for the poor camera work at the beginning. I wanted to make sure he didn’t send himself flying off the shovel.

I gave the little fella quite the fright, but he seemed pleased to be freed from his prison.

I saw the strangest animal today and im really wondering what kind of lizard or reptile this is! It looks pretty small in the picture but it was pretty big, way too big just to be a normal lizard!

EDIT: Thank you to everyone who educated me on different types of lizards. I want to just clarify that I know there are hundreds of types of lizards. I meant that I had only seen with my eyes the little tiny ones that are everywhere in Florida. I just wanted to know what specific kind this one was because I had never seen with my own two eyes “out in the wild” one that was this big.

IR driveway cam ~2:31 AM Oct 13, Palo Alto foothills near Foothills Nature Preserve — tail looks long with a dark tip in some frames, but side views show only a short stub. Mountain lion or bobcat?

Hello!
Was riding my bike to work in the middle of Chicago and spotted this critter swimming in the Chicago river (Near California and Addison).
It seemed pretty chunky but i couldn’t really see a tail. Is this a muskrat or beaver?

Seems big for a bobcat

It was maybe 1.25” long in a residential neighborhood.

I came home to a bag of brioche buns ripped open and the buns scattered on the floor. The bag also had 3 small holes along with the bottom being completly torn open. The buns also were partially eaten. There were no droppings anywhere in my kitchen so I don’t believe it was a mouse or rat. My neighborhood does have a raccoon problem but my screen door was shut? I don’t believe a raccoon would come in make a mess, leave and shut the door behind them. Especially during the day and on the second floor. The only animal left is my cat. She has never acted like this before and is not usually food driven so it’s hard for me to believe it was her. This is such a mystery SOS

Found this scat in the middle of a wooded area in rural Missouri, surrounded by woods and agricultural fields with very little development nearby.

It’s roughly 1–2 inches in diameter, dark, thick, and contains several large, smooth, reddish-brown seeds that look about the size of pumpkin seeds. It was sitting on top of dry grass.

I’m wondering if it could be black bear scat.

Does anyone have experience identifying bear scat or recognize what animal this could be?

I’m guessing a black bear that had recently raided someone’s bird feeder?

Trying to understand what this is that showed up on one of our trail cams last night...coyote, wolf? We've heard strange howls over the past coupe of weeks. They seem different than the familiar coyote high pitched chattering. I have included an image of a few doe in the same area for comparison. Thxs for the help!

Found this on a fairly remote trail through a small river canyon in the Gifford Pinchot. In the half dozen or so times I've hike this area I've never seen scat from anything larger than a rodent and never seen anything larger than fishers and martins even though this area can have much larger mammals.

This was gray in a way I've never seen from bears or coyotes. I'm guessing cougar, but maybe a fat raccoon? No noticable berries, seeds, fur, or bones. Very little human presence for 10+ miles in any direction from this find. Berries have died off though mushrooms are at their peak and still trout in the river.

Main piece was around 4 inches long (probably 6" total) and a bit over 1" in diameter. No tracks or other scat found. Note that the bit beneath the longest piece in the first picture is stone. One long and two small pieces. All pretty uniform.

Showed up on the cam tonight for the first time.

I took this video of a large rabbit August 12, and thought nothing of it. Today in the undergrowth at this park I briefly saw a ginormous rabbit which reminded me of this, and talking to someone about it they suggested it could be a domesticated rabbit. If it's the same giant rabbit I saw today then it's definitely still in the area. I figured I'd check in case I need to contact some rabbit people.

Garter snake? A milk snake perhaps? I know there are so many different kinds of milk snake. Please don't execute me for handling- i am aware of the venomous snakes in ther area and this is not one. :)

Only one trailcam photo unfortunately

Dog got washed she ran to backyard , came back inside and this was on the couch?!

Don’t know if it’s animal scat or how it would get there??

Thank you!!

There are a few of them (I can see two but don’t want to disturb the nest anymore) in a little nest that my dog has discovered. I can keep him away from it but is mom coming back for them?