- Animals in Yellowstone effect the Yellowstone ecosystem and they also affected the travelers going west.
- Yellowstone had a ton of trees and mountains and rivers so we will have to go by the mountains and pass by the rivers.
- There is a volcano in Yellowstone under the ground.
- Yellowstone is as big as Delaware and Rhode Island combined and there is still room.
- The wagon you rode in was smaller than your car and the weight under 1 ton and a half.
- Predators that you might find are Bears, Mountain Lions, Wolves, and other animals.
- You will find a ton of Bison in Yellowstone along the trail.
- An ecosystem is a system of living components and not-living components.
- Animals harass you on the trip west.
- Coyote work together and a wolf can take down an animal by itself but for a large animal the Wolves work together.
- A Coyote is smart and will try to lure you out and draw you away from their target, so then they will try to attack. All of that would happen all along the trail.
- The trail was sort of patted down, but no direct road that leads you right there. There wasn't just one trail, there were multiple all leading to a similar point. Wyoming has more of the Oregon trail than any other state.
- Pioneers would trade with the Native Americans and the tracks were deep.
- A Wolf has teeth that humans don't have, but the wolf and Coyote have the same teeth.
- Wolves eat once or twice a week but they ate a ton so then they could continue to go. Wolves live in a large, social family.
- Not everybody went on the trip so that was why elderly people sometimes came along, so they wouldn't be separated.
- The prairie has no trees so the tracks were the grass pushed over.
- A ton of huge mosquitoes in prairie and large biting flies and you have no bug spray.
- An 11 year old had to protect the wagon with adults then could play at night before going to sleep.
- Bug spray would be buffalo fat.
- Badgers eat small rodents and sometimes a rattlesnake if it catches it.
- Black bears are extremely dangerous and will kill you
- Wolves have paws with a little webbing to walk on snow
- Wild animals can get infected by domestic dogs
- Wolverines won't back down to anything.
- Reindeer and Caribou can eat Lichen
- Golden Eagles can kill a small deer.
It was cool to learn about the predators and animals along the Oregon trail that we will probably encounter while going along the trail. Now we know more about what we will face and what the landscape and animals look like. So now we know some of the dangers of what the trail is. It was crazy to hear that one small little eagle can take down one huge deer! It was also cool to hear all the other things about what the trail was like and all the things that the pioneers would face and what they would to do defend and protect them self from the dangers of Yellowstone. I never knew that Yellowstone Park was so big, that it was bigger than Delaware and Rhode Island combined! It's huge!