What Animals Live in a Freshwater Biome?
Burbot image by netzfrisch.de from Fotolia.com jQuery(document).ready(function(){ jQuery(‘#jsArticleStep1 span.image a:first’).attr(‘href’,’http://i.ehow.com/images/a06/26/11/animals-live-freshwater-biome_-1.1-800X800.jpg’); }); The burbot’s body tapers to a rounded tail. Freshwater has less than a 1 percent rate of salt concentration, states the University of California Museum of Paleontology website. Freshwater biomes include such settings as wetlands, ponds, lakes, streams, brooks and rivers. These aquatic places teem with life, with many of the animals that live in a freshwater biome able to function as well in the water as they do on the land. Muskrats The muskrat is a large member of the rodent family that takes its name from its strong resemblance to a big rat and the scent glands it possesses that produce a musky odor. The muskrat inhabits freshwater biomes from far northern Canada and Alaska southward throughout the United States, absent only from most of California, Texas the