Wildlands of Cal Poly Pomona
Animals
“Wildlife” often conjures up images of big mammals. The frequent deer, occasional coyotes, and rumored mountain lions that visit the Cal Poly wildlands are big, and quite mammalian, but the animals of Cal Poly come in many more sizes and phyla. Animal diversity does not always match plant diversity: there are almost as many animal species in the walnut woodlands as there are in the coastal sage, but there are many fewer plant species.
The vertebrates are perhaps the showiest animals of Cal Poly, and the ones that most people think of. But, as in most parts of the world, the greatest number of animal species in the wildlands are insects.