What do the animals around the merced river eat?

1. What feeds the Merced River?
2. Are there fish in Merced River?
3. What do fish eat in Yosemite?
4. What eats deer in Yosemite?

What feeds the Merced River?

In the dry season, groundwater provides the only base flow to the river. In addition, the river is fed by dozens of high Sierra lakes, the largest of which include Merced Lake, Tenaya Lake, Ostrander Lake, the Chain Lakes, and May Lake.

Are there fish in Merced River?

Native fish—including California roach, Sacramento pikeminnow, hardhead, and riffle sculpin—inhabit the lower reaches of the Merced River up to the vicinity of El Portal. Historic accounts suggest that rainbow trout and Sacramento suckers occurred as high as Yosemite Valley on the Merced River.

What do fish eat in Yosemite?

The food of this species includes freshwater mollusks, crustaceans, worms, and small fish. Hybridization between this species and the Brown Trout is common.

What eats deer in Yosemite?

In the Yosemite region, however, the chief wild enemy of the Mule Deer is the Mountain Lion. The way in which lions capture deer is described in another chapter (p. 97), where also the numbers probably killed each year are estimated.