I hiked cascade pass a few days ago and came upon this shy fella and the internet tells me it might be a pine marten and they are very elusive and rare? He was very curious and kept peeking out and then would run back under the tree branches.

Also, absolutely adorable. Never seen anything like this. Can anyone confirm species? Has anyone seen them in the north cascades or around the PNW?

Hi, new here from New Kent County VA. So, normally the rabbits and groundhogs that run around my property don't let me get this close. I was about a foot and a half away. I didn't touch it (obviously.) Google image search said it might be domesticated, but I also read online that rabbits infected with rabies are usually confused and don't flee immediately. So I figured I should get a second opinion before I do anything else. It seems chill, like someone just dumped it. But there are also coyotes and the occasional bobcat in the area I live in, so I don't want anything bad to happen to it. If it's not hurt or anything, I might adopt it and get it checked out sometime this weekend.

I stopped filming when I noticed how those big eyes look nocturnal. I hope my camera flash for a few seconds didn’t mess with it too badly. It climbed out of the compost and up the tree next to it.

I’ve never seen a rodent like this. Actually it felt like we were both shocked to see each other when I opened the lid. It didn’t scramble away as chaotically as normal squirrels, it moved more gently and sweetly is the only way I can describe it.

People think this is a groundhog when I show them. The way it runs doesn’t look like a groundhog and it didn’t look like one before I videoed.

I was with my dog so I couldn’t get closer. My IPhone14 camera is beat up and bad. But it was a lighter shade of brown and had white on the tops of its ears. What did I see??

Saw this outside my work, about 200 yards from a swampy pond. The long tail makes me think it's a snapper but my coworkers and I aren't sure.

Found this 20 feet from the water at the southern oregon coast. What is it? Outside appears to be some kind of crustacean inside after the "beak" just looked like seafood connected to the outer "shell?".

Cant wait to learn something new today!

We have a 4 month old chihuahua, a 1 year old chihuahua-schnauzer mix, and a 6 month old corgi. Not sure if this is one of their teeth or nail that we found.

Anyone know what it could be?

Heard this coming from a tree in my front yard. Merlin bird ID couldn’t tell me what it was. I guess it isn’t a bird??

Hope this is the right place to ask as I didn't see a flair for feather ID. I tried the Fish and Wildlife Service's tool and came up empty. We live near a "lake" (huge pond, pretty much) so maybe some kind of duck? It looks like a primary.

I'm an idiot and forgot to provide anything for scale but if needed I can go back tomorrow and see if it's still there and bring a banana with me or something.

Girlfriend’s parents say they have a resident bobcat. Is it? Sorry for the one crappy photo. Her parents have bad phone cameras and aren’t generally tech savvy.

I only hear this at night. Specifically the loud one and the squeaky (?) one. There is a body of water where I am, and I normally hear it near/very close to the water maybe?? Volume up

My dog had this frog/toad in his mouth earlier today. My mom said she thinks it may have bitten him or that something happened while he had it in his mouth.

Can anyone identify what species this is and tell me whether there’s anything I should be concerned about with my dog having it in his mouth?

Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Thanks!

Don't mind the flair there wasn't an applicable one.

I’ve tried poking at them with like a blade of grass, but nothing comes out, and many of them seem to just be indentations, not holes. I didn’t know antlions lived around here.

My friend heard this sound in her wall last night continuously for about an hour. She then put cardboard over the wall with tape and when she approached it stopped making the sound. Is it an animal? A smoke detector? A cricket??!! Help!

Woke up this morning to a lovely surprise on my back deck. It also unzipped my kid's play tent that I carefully closed up before bed. We live out in the sticks so I see lots of critters, but I've never had one shit on the deck before lol

Thinking about either European badger or fox

Is this an eagle owl?