the more you know

I learned yesterday that New Hampshire has a state dog! (It’s the Chinook.)

Naturally, this led me down the rabbit hole of state animals.

*Twelve states have an official state dog.

*Maine has a state cat. (The Maine Coon, of course!)

*A surprisingly large number of states have an official state dinosaur. (Iowa’s state dino is the T-Rex. That’s a trivia bonus question for sure!)

*There are also state mammals, state butterflies, state insects, state fish, state fossils, and state reptiles, all in addition to the more classic state bird.

*All 50 states have some sort of state bird. (Seven states have the *same* state bird, the Northern Cardinal.)

*Two states have named the Mexican Free-Tailed Bat as their official state flying mammal. (That would be Texas and Oklahoma.)

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