Carnivores – Eutheria: Carnivora
Insectivores – Eutheria: Insectivora
Rabbits – Eutheria: Lagomorpha
Information compiled from field observations by John Hassett `99 and retired Arboretum Manager Myles Bakke.
Question mark (?) indicates an unverified/uncertain sighting or identification. Some of these uncertain records may be decades old and are considered quite unreliable.
Scientific names are as indicated in Hazard, 1982.
Eutheria: Artiodactyla
Eutheria: Carnivora
- Canis latrans: Coyote
- Lontra canadensis: River Otter
- Mephitis mephitis: Striped Skunk
- Mustela erminea: Short-tailed Weasel
- Mustela frenata: Long-tailed Weasel
- Mustela vison: Mink
- Procyon lotor: Raccoon
- Taxidea taxus: American Badger
- Urocyon cinereoargenteus: Gray Fox
- Vulpes vulpes: Red Fox
Eutheria: Chiroptera
- Eptesicus fuscus: Big Brown Bat
- Lasionycteris noctivagens: Silver-Haired Bat
- Lasiurus borealis: Red Bat
- Lasiurus cinerus: Hoary Bat
- Myotis lucifugus: Little Brown Bat
Eutheria: Insectivora
- Blarina brevicauda: Short-tailed Shrew
- Scalopus aquaticus: Eastern Mole
- Sorex cinereus: Masked Shrew
Eutheria: Lagomorpha
- ?Lepus townsendii: Whitetail Jackrabbit
- Sylvilagus floridanus: Eastern Cottontail
Eutheria: Rodentia
- Castor canadensis: Beaver
- Clethrionomys gapperi: Southern Red-backed Vole
- Geomys bursarius: Plains Pocket Gopher
- Marmota monax: Woodchuck (Groundhog)
- Microtus ochrogaster: Prairie Vole
- Microtus pennsylvanicus: Meadow Vole
- Mus musculus: House Mouse
- ?Napaeozapus insignis: Woodland Jumping Mouse
- Ondatra zibethicus: Muskrat
- Peromyscus leucopus: White-footed Mouse
- Peromyscus maniculatus bairdii: Prairie Deer Mouse
- Rattus norvegicus: Norway Rat
- Sciurus carolinensis: Gray Squirrel
- Sciurus niger: Fox Squirrel
- Spermophilus tridecemlineatus: Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel
- Tamiasciurus hudsonicus: Red Squirrel
- Tamias striatus: Eastern Chipmunk
- Zapus hudsonicus: Meadow Jumping Mouse
Marsupialia
- Didelphis virginiana: Virginia Opossum
Reference:
Hazard, Evan B. 1982. The Mammals of Minnesota. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
List Compiled September 1998, by John E. Hassett; updated with River Otter sighting 1/2020 by Nancy Braker