Animal References in Arthur

There are tons of animals that live in and around Elwood City. There are mammals like the white-tailed deer, eastern grey squirels, bats, and sunks and then there are reptiles and amphibeans like toads, frogs, and snakes. There are also birds like the historic green-tailed grebe and many more.

But it does not stop there. Their are rare and exotic animals such as tigers, rhinos, and lions. This page is only about animals that are seen in the show.

White-Tailed Deer
The White-Tailed Deer is a peaceful herbavore from teh deer family, mainly found all over North America they are found forests. Their colours allow them to blend into the background of the forest. When startled they will run off. &nbsp Appears in D.W.'s Deer Friend. D.W. spots one of these and gives it the name Walter. She attempted to feed it cereal the next day she saw it.

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Squirrel is a common animal that live in cities in the north western and north eastern part of the United states and Canada. They mainly eat seeds, but when food is rare they will eat bugs. The Squirrel is a member of the rodent family. They spend their life in trees. When winter comes they won't hibernate. Instead they will burry their food for latter times and spend the winter tucked away in their borrow, only to wonder out when they are hungry. They appeared in later seasons such as The Squirrels. It lives all over Elwood City, and in The Squirrels the 3rd graders from Lakewood Elementary School were scared by it after they saw a horror movie about them.

Little Brown Bat
It is one of the most common bat species in North America, although it is rarely seen because they are noctunal. They mainly eat insects such as mosquettos and moth. They are able to hunt by using their Ecolocation witch allows to pick up objects in the dark. And no bats are not blind. It is seen in Bats in the Belfry, when Arthur and D.W. there was a bat living in the the attic of Grandma Thora's house

North American Porcupine
Porcupines are the largest rotten that live in the US and Canada. It is a large spiked cover mammal. It mainly eats plants. It moves extreamly slowly, but once they are climbing they preatty fast. Their quills are its main defence. It does not shot out its quills but instead it turns around swats the advancer with its tail. Each quil covered in small barbs that allows it to embed itself into its victim. The Porcupine made its appearance in the episode The Great Lint Rush in Mr. Toad's home as a body guard.

Striped Skunk
The Skunk is member of the weasel family. It spends its time forageing for grubs that live underground. It is mainly nocturnal. The sent it amits comes from a special sent gland in the animal. It takes more than 24 hours to recover the punchent odor it amits. So they perfer to scare off preditors than spray them with its odor. The Skunk appeared as a prank in Arthur Summer Camp. And Brain menchens that he took a Skunk home in the episode Hide and Snake.

Bottle Noise Dolphin
The Bottle Noise Dolphin is a member of the whale family. They mainly eat fish such as tuna. They swim in groups called pods. They are extremly intellegent animals, they communicate with clicks and whisles. They are extremly friendly, they have been known to protect scuba divers, fish from sharks and their natural enemy. They made several apperances through out the Arthur Series as background characters.

Humpback Whale
The largest mammal in the world. It swims in the open ocean. It is an endangered secies due to Whalers. It maybe the largest mammal but eat the tinies animals called zooloplancton. They swim in pods like dolphins and communicate with songs. It was the subject in Arthur Goes Crosswire. It appeared in Busters Dream in Buster Baxter and the Letter from the Sea,

Siberean Tiger
The Siberean Tiger is the largest Cat in the the Cat family. They mainly live in Sibera and northern China. They are type called Hyper Carnivore, that means they eat only meat. They are considered to be endangered because of loss of habitate, hunting and fears. Their orange coat allows them to b;end into the back ground in the forest. They main prey is deer. They made their appearance in Buster Myth Maker.

Owl
An owl is seen in Buenas Noches, Vicita. These are also rarely seen in Arthur's hometown because they are nocturnal animals. They mainly hunt smaller animals such as mice, squireels. They are capable of turning their head 180 degrees. Their large eyes are the reason they can see at night. Owls are famous for their hooting noises, but tend to screech as well. Their talens can crush the bones of its prey.

Green-Tailed Grebe
Green-Tailed Grebe is the Arthur version of Red-tailed Grebe. It is a bird native to Elwood City but it now rarely found. It is considered to be the town bird, because the Elwood City Grebes are named after them. They are a type of water fowl so they live near to water sources like lakes, rivers and ponds. The grebe usely eat water plants.

Eastern Blue Bird
Commonly found in Elwood City. You can often hear them sing songs in the backgrounds of episodes. They mainly eat insects, and seeds. They usally live in forest but have been found in citis.

Preying Mantis
Preying Mantis is a master hunter. They strike their prey with stelf and accuracy. It is a very helpful insect in gardens. It helps eat invasive insects such as grasshoppers, beetles and other bugs. The Preying Mantis was inspired in a new form of Martial Arts. In was the insect that Sue Ellen Armstrong chose as part of her Bug Week Project in Binky, the Wingman.

Stink Bugs
Stink Bugs are a member of the beetle family. It is called a Stink Bug because when scared they release a pongent odor to make them an unwanted food source. They are commonly found in fallen trees eating helping out with the decompstion of the tree. It was George Lundgren topic during Bug Week in Binky, the Wingman.

Honey Bee
Honey Bees are bugs that live in a social order. Their are drones, guards, workers and the queen. Each rank has its purpose in a Bee Hive. Honey Bees have a great importants in the garden. They pollenate the flowers and helps with reproduction of the plant. It made its appearence in Busters Green Tumb and was Muffy topic during Bug Week in Binky, the Wingman.

Butterfly
Butterfly Often seen in Elwood City. There are many types of butterflies that appear in episodes, such as the Monarch. Binky becomes interested in catching butterflies in Binky, the Wingman, and in Binky Goes Nuts a butterfly lands on him and he thinks that it is an allergic reaction to butterflies, but actually it is an allergy to peanuts.

Beetles
Beetles are a species of insect. They decompose fallen trees. They are preyed on by birds such as blue birds, woodpeckers and their babies also called grubs by skunks and Raccons. They made an appearance in the opening to The Cherry Tree.

Moth
Moth are a nocturnal version of Butterflies. They are attracted to light like most insects. They eat cotton and other plants. They are a favorite food for Bats and birds. They made an appearance in, Binky Barnes Wingman!

Ants
Ants resemble humans, they live in large collioness with thousands of workers, guards, and at the top of the collioney is the queen ant. She is the only one who breeds in the collioney. They mainly eat sugar. They made appearance in Ants in Arthur's Pants as part of Arthur extra credit project.

Dragonfly
Dragonfly starts its life living underwater where it hunts fish, tadpolos and other insects. As they mature they grow wings and leaves the water. They live near bodies of water such as swamps, ponds and rivers. They are big help in keeping Mosqetto population down because they prey on the insect. They made an appearace in Binky, the Wingman as a statue.

Ladybugs
Ladybugs are member of the beetle family. They are great help in the garden because eat smaller creatures called gnawtes. They have a tougher outer shell wich hades a pair of wings. Their enemy are larger insects and spiders. But the biggest concern to Ladybugs is pestaside which kills these helpful creatures. They appeared in Binky, the wingman.

Mosquetto
Mosquetto are a pest to humans. The male species eat mainly fruits. While the female mosquetto eat fruit and is the one who drink blood. The female mosquetto lays her eggs in stagment water. They are eaten by dragonflies and frogs. They are more active after sunset. They made appearance in Bats in the Belfrey, and is Francine project during bug week in Binky, the wingman.

Spiders
Spiders are not a insect but an Arachnid. It has eight legs and eight eyes. There are many different types of spiders. Each type of spider, each spider create different type ways to hunt their prey. The most common spider is the one that makes a spider web. It can not chow their food but instead they inject their venom into their prey which they turn them into a smooth and drink it. They made in appearance in I'm a Poet, and it was Arthur bug project during bug week in Binky, the Wingman.

Millipeed
Milliaped means thousand legs, unfortunitly they do not have a thousand legs. They are preditors like Spiders. They have a venom that can inject into their prey. They eat insects. Compared to the Centaped which eat plants. The Milliaped appeared in Binky, the Wingman, it is Allan Powers bug project during bug week.

Crabs
Crabs are crustation. It does not have a back bone. You generaly find them on beaches. They eat mainly dead things. It is heavly armoured creature and possed two pairs of Claws. It can crush preditors with its claws. It made its appearace in The Shore Thing.

Lobster
Lobsters are a member of the crustation. It is much larger than crabs. They live in the deep parts of the ocean where they scavage dead things. Lobsters, Crabs, shrimp and many cratures that genealy live in the sea are endangered due to pollution, and over fishing. Like Crabs they are heavly armoured and have a strong pair of pincers that can crush a person hand. They were found in a Tital Pool in The Shore Thing.

Hermit Crab
Hermit Crabs are a crustation that live on beaches. They called Hermit Crabs because they wear a shell. They have no armour so as they grow they have to find new shells. They would rather find empty shells, but if they have to they will kill the creature that is living in the shell and take over. They generally eat dead things. They do have two powerful claws. The bigger they are the stronger they pinch. Their is other ways for Hermit Crab can defend itself. By placing animals like Urchins, Annommy on to their shell protects them from preditors. D.W. made a mistake for a hermit crab for one her sea shells in The Shore Thing.

Sea Stars
Sea Stars or Starfish are not fish they have no backbone. They have suck shine cup like pads on the buttom of the animal. It allows it to move and keep close to the ground during strong ocean currents. They mainly eat snails, hermit crabs and other bottom dewllers. They made an appearance in The Shore Thing.

Annoanomy
An Annoanomy is a live creature usely found at the buttom of ocean. They mainly eat fish. It made an appearce in The Shore Thing.

Sea Hair
A boneless vertabrate that lives at the bottom of the ocean. They mainly a scavanger and eat muscels that fall to the bottom of the ocean.

Pufferfish
Pufferfish are a dangerous fish. When it scared it will blowup to make it look bigger. They generly live in the tropics. There is a favorite food called Puku which is Pufferfish, the specie used in the dish is poisons and considered to be delicious and dangerous. Pufferfish eat smaller fish. They made a appearance in Buster Baxter and the Letter from the Sea. In DW all Wet, a pufferfish was in the aquarium

Sea Horse
Sea Horse is a species of fish. They tend live in Sea Weed. They rap their tail around sea weed or coral so they do not get blown away by the sea current. They are the only known species of animal were the male give birth to the young. They made two appearances in the Arthur series the first in Swept Away and again in Buster Baxter and the Letter from the Sea. Both were in a dream.

Sardin
Sardin is a small fish that live the ocean. They live schools so they can not get picked off by larger fish. They can move with the other fish meaning if one moves to the left the others will move to the left. Fisherman catch Sardin which humans eat. They mainly eat zooloplanktin. They had a appearance in Buster Baxter and the Letter from the Sea.

Electric Eel
Electric Eel a species of fish that have ability to produce a very powerful electric charge. They use it to hunt prey in their habiate which is murky rivers. They eat fish. They made a background appearance in DW all Wet

Shark
Shark is the top preditor in the ocean. They will eat fish, sea turtles, dolphin, and sea birds. They are endangered species due to be misleading, most sharks do not eat humans, because it is only the tiger shark and the great white shark big enough to eat a human but the truth is that when a shark attacks it is either it has a cut or resembles its favorite food seals. Most sharks are general scared of humans and perfer to not make any contact. The Shark appeared in the aquarium in DW all Wet.

America Toad
The American Toad lives in and around slow moving bodies water such as Ponds and Marshes, they eat bugs like flies, mosquettos, will also larger food such as worms. The Toad is different from the frog. The first thing a Toad has rough skin where frogs have smooth skin, Toads have short leaps while frogs have long leaps, Toads are bulker than frogs. In the Arthur series the Toad made several appearance including So Long, Spanky, The Great Sock Mystery and The Great Lint Rush. Knotable Toads is Toady Wart face and Mr Toad.

North American Frog
Like the American Toad they live in and around slow moving bodies of water such as Ponds and Marshes, they eat insects, and smaller animals like worms, The biggest thing about both frogs and toads are that both are a symbol of clean enviroment. There are more frogs and toads when the water is clean and fewer mosquettos, while on the opposite side when there are no frogs and toads the water is dirty and alot more mosquettos. They had a minor appearance in Water on the Brain.

Kingsnake
The Kingsnake is a species of snake. The kingsnake constricts its prey, it eats mainly rodents, lizards, eggs and other snakes, their pattern looks similar to that of the coral snake. Their is a poem to remeber to tell the two species apart. "Red on yellow, kill a fellow; "Red on black, friend of Jack"; and "Red into black, venom lack; red into yellow, kill a fellow." according to Wikapedia. The Kingsnake had major role in the episode Hide and Snake.

Caimen
The Caiman is the South American equal to the Crocodile and Alligator. The Caimen waits for its prey. Like all Crocodillians the Caimen is Cold Blooded. It must find away to gain heat and cool itself. It lays in bright sun light to gain heat and cool down by opening its mouth to lose heat or dive into the water. It can submerged under water for hours. And hunt animals like pecerey, monkeys, jaguars, fish, birds and any animal that steps into its element. It lives in the rivers of the amazons. It made an appearance in Buenas Noches, Vicita.

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Turtles are a member of the reptile species. They have a hard shell that is part of its body. A long neck that can enter its shell. It is a slow moving creature because of the shell. Not because the shell is heavy but it so heavly protected from preditors. They eat mainly plants. The turtle made an appearance in I'm a poet.

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The largest turtle that lives around North America. The Leatherback Sea Turtle is graceful swimmer. They eat jellyfish, and sea weed. Their main prey is Sharks and Man. They are endangered speciesdue to hunting for its meat and eggs. The biggest problem to the sea turtle is garbage such as plastic bags, they mistake them for there favorite food jellyfish. There most exciting event is their egg hatching which is during the full moon. They made an appearance in Buster Baxter and the letter from the Sea.