The Moose is the State Land Mammal and the Bowhead Whale is the State Marine Marmmal.
Michigan is way wrong. It's clearly Alaska but as for contiguous states, it's either Maine or New York.
Moose have been sighted in South Dakota, but are not known to inhabit the state. Most moose sightings are of lone young bull moose moving through, either from Minnesota on the east side of the state, or Wyoming on the west, or North Dakota on the north. A young bull moose was killed by state game and fish personnel after it wandered into town in Rapid City, causing a public outcry in 2003.
The willow ptarmigan is the state bird of Alaska because It is the bird that mostly comes around all year.
State Marine Mammal: Orca (Killer Whale)State Amphibian: Pacific Chorus FrogState Endemic Mammal: Olympic MarmotState Insect: Green Darner DragonflyState Bird: Willow GoldfinchState Fish: Steelhead Trout
Because it was so designated by the State Legislature in 1998.
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The Moose is the State Land Mammal and the Bowhead Whale is the State Marine Marmmal.
The official state land mammal of Alaska is the moose. It was designated as such in 1998.THE MOOSE!(By Davante Wood)
It does not have a state horse. The Alaska State Land Mammal is the moose.
The Official Land Mammal of Alaska is the Moose. The Official Marine Mammal of Alaska is the Bowhead Whale. The Official Fish of Alaska is the King Salmon. The Official Bird of Alaska is the Willow Ptarmigan. The Official Insect of Alaska is the Four-spot skimmer dragonfly.
Alaska's national animal is the moose! Some additional facts I found...just for fun. It's state marine mammal is the Bowhead Whale; state bird is the Willow Ptarmigan; state insect is the Four Spots Skimmer Dragonfly; and its state fish is the King Salmon.
That would be Newfoundland/Labrador in Canada.
It is a moose
to be exact, it became the state animal in 1979
Alaska has the Moose and the Bowhead Whale as Official Mammals, the Willow Ptarmigan as the Official Bird, the Four-spotted Skimmer Dragonfly as the Official Insect and the King Salmon as the Official State Fish.