What was in the Comanche habitat?

Answer 1

The evidence for what was in the Comanche surroundings comes from their language; for example, they had a word for rattlesnake because they were familiar with that species.

Animals included: deer, armadillo, bullfrogs, red foxes, ground squirrels, ground hogs, bats, porcupines, horned toads, pack rats, coyotes, wildcats, buffalo, horses, otters, wolves, skunks, rabbits, mountain lions.

Birds included: bluejays, roadrunners, buzzards, meadowlarks, falcons, guinea fowl, turkeys, eagles, geese, horned owls, cranes, woodpeckers, screech owls, hawks, crows, ravens, quail, partridges, sandpipers, hummingbirds.

Reptiles included: racer snakes, snapping turtles, rattlesnakes, clinging lizards, timber lizards, water lizards, water moccasins, rock lizards, striped lizards.

Fish included: eels, flounders, catfish, crawfish.

Insects included: grasshoppers, ants, flies, ticks, scorpions, mosquitoes, termites, bees, dragonflies, horseflies, lice, locusts, crickets.

Plants included: Osage orange, hickory, hackberry, silver maple, walnut, mesquite, persimmon, pecan, black willow, dogwood, oak, white elm, ash, mulberry, cottonwood, plum, crab apple, cedar, pine, gourd, snakeroot, thistle, cactus, yaupon holly, mescal, smartweed, loco weed, sunflower, sweet potato, milkweed, lotus, lily, wild onion, yucca, wild potato, sumac, wormwood, buttonbush, cattail, feverplant, poison ivy, fleabane daisy, nightshade, horseweed, thornapple, breadroot, sage, prickly pear.

Answer 2

The Comanche lived in the Southern Plains in what is now New Mexico, Colorado, Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.