NAME |
SPECIES |
ALIMENTATION |
DISEASE |
deer |
cervinae and capreolinae |
easily digestible shoots, young leaves, fresh grasses, soft twigs, fruit, fungi, and lichens |
moose and deer can carry rabies |
bat |
flying mammals of the order chiroptera |
bats take a wide variety of food, including fruit, leaves, bark, nectar, pollen, winged insects, beetles, bugs and termites, spiders, small mammals as rodents, birds, lizards, amphibians as frogs, scorpions |
Ebola, Marburg virus, rabies and potentially even coronavirus. |
water bird |
aquatic birds |
Mostly seeds, grains, insects and aquatic plants |
duck plague (Herpes virus), paramyxovirus of cormorants (Paramyxovirus PMV1) and West Nile virus (Flavivirus), and bacterial diseases, including avian cholera (Pasteurella multocida) |
sea turtle |
superfamily chelonioidea |
algae, seagrasses, seaweed, jellies, crabs, conchs, whelks |
focal errosive dermatitis (FED); septicemia ulcerative cutaneous disease (SCUD), papillary dermatitis (PD); bacterial encephalitis and chylamydial infections. |
squirrels |
family sciuridae |
a wide variety of plant, fruit, and vegetable material |
tularemia, typhus, plague, and ringworm |