Wyoming has many Pronghorn antelope herds.
Wyoming has more antelope than any other state.
Wyoming is also the home of the world's largest single elk heard.
Mule deer are found in every county and white-tailed deer live
in the Black Hills area.
Moose are found in the northwestern part of the state. There is also a small population of Rocky Mountain Big Horn Sheep in the northern portions of the state. Bear another Wyoming game animal, is seldom seen except in Yellowstone Park.
Cottontails and jackrabbits abound in Wyoming's wide open spaces along
with coyotes, bobcats, and a variety of fur-bearing animals.
The sage grouse is Wyoming's most plentiful and widely distributed native game bird. It is found in every county. Several other species of grouse inhabit the mountains of the state. Pheasants, chukar, Hungarian partridge and wild turkeys bound. Many species of waterfowl including ducks, geese and the rare trumpeter and whistler swans are found in Wyoming.
Wyoming has twenty-two species of game fish, including six kinds of trout that find the clear and cold streams and lakes to their liking-rainbow, brook, cutthroat, brown, golden and Mackinaw. The world's record California golden trout was caught in Wyoming's Cook Lake in 1948 (the fish measured 28 inches long, weighed 11 lbs. 4 oz. and was landed by C.S. Read of Omaha, Nebraska). Bass, walleye, crappie, perch, sauger, ling, channel catfish and bluegill are found in the warm water lakes. Fishing success is generally high and Wyoming has been called a fisherman's paradise.