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A state mammal is the official mammal of a U.S. state as designated by a state's legislature. The first column of the table is for those denoted as the state mammal, and the second shows the state marine mammals. Animals with more specific designations are also listed.
The original seal also contained the future state motto. It served as the state's only emblem for over 130 years until the adoption of the state bird in 1926. Enacted by law in 2010, the newest symbols of Kentucky are the state insect, the honey bee, and the state sports car, the Chevrolet Corvette.
In 2012, Representative Ed Trimmer tabled a bill proposing the Cairn Terrier as a state symbol. [15] In 2015, the "working dog", animals that have been trained for various service roles, was adopted. [16] Although South Dakota does not have a state dog breed, it does list the coyote—a canine species related to the dog—as its state wildlife ...
What to know about Kentucky’s pygmy rattlesnake A photo of a Pygmy Rattlesnake, retrieved from kysnakes.ca.uky.edu/venomous. Photo courtesy of the University of Kentucky’s Department of Forestry.
The northern cardinal is the state bird of seven U.S. states, more than any other species: Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, Virginia, and West Virginia; although in each case the particular state just refers to the bird as "cardinal". It was also a candidate to become the state bird of Delaware but lost to the Delaware Blue ...
The most famous Bigfoot encounter in Kentucky’s history, Coffey says, was in 1782 and involved the one and only Daniel Boone. A Bigfoot suit on display at the Bell County Historical Society ...
Kentucky: European honey bee (state agricultural insect) Apis mellifera: 2010 [21] Viceroy butterfly (state butterfly) Limenitis archippus: 1990 [22] Louisiana: European honey bee (state insect) Apis mellifera: 1977 [23] Gulf fritillary (state butterfly) Dione vanillae: 2022 [24] Maine: European honey bee (state insect) Apis mellifera: 1975 [25 ...
In contrast to state reptiles, state birds have been more rapidly adopted, with the first state designating one in 1927 and the fiftieth in 1973. [78] As of January 2011, other types of animals more popular for state symbolization were mammals (46), [ 79 ] fish (45), [ 80 ] and insects (42). [ 81 ]