15 incredible wildlife creatures you didn’t know about in Georgia

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PHOTOS: 15 incredible wildlife creatures you didn’t know existed in Georgia

Towns filled with skyscrapers and zigzaggy highways may come to mind when you think of Georgia, but the Peach State also has its fair share of wildlife.

A black bear is one of several hundred that roam Shenandoah National Park, a steep increase from only two bears found in the park in 1937. Photo by National Park Service/Neil Lewis

A copperhead is a reason to worry. A bite means a trip to the hospital to deal with the venom. A word of advice: avoid ivy. CONTRIBUTED BY JOHN JENSEN

The Spectaculars are armed with extraordinary adaptations. No one else in the world can do the things they can do, act the way they act, look the way they look. Meet Abe, the alligator snapping turtle. His superpower: Luring.

Gopher frog

A hellbender is measured by DNR technician, Grover Brown in a creek running through the Chattahoochee National Forest near Union, GA. Hellbenders, unique to mountains of eastern United States, are one of the largest salamanders in the world, and can reach 2 feet long. Length, weight, and overall conditions of the hellbender is recorder along with the collection of blood and tissue samples.

070322 CUMBERLAND ISLAND, GA.: An oyster catcher has a feast during low tide at Pelican Banks on Cumberland Island using it's beak to extract a tasty moral from it's shell after digging it out of the sand, Thursday, March 22, 2007. CURTIS COMPTON / ccompton@ajc.com

Bobwhite quail

Manatees swim in the warm waters of the Manatee Lagoon, an FPL Eco Discover Center in West Palm Beach, January 31, 2017, after temperatures dropped overnight. (Greg Lovett / The Palm Beach Post)

Rescued female Florida panther Sassafras at the Palm Beach Zoo. Photo Courtesy of the Palm Beach Zoo & Conservation Society

Bald Eagle Close-Up (Photo by Galen Rowell/Corbis via Getty Images)

070516 Jekyll Island - An adult Wood Stork, uncommon and local in shallow muddy ponds, returns to it's nest to tend to it's young at Jekyll Island, Wednesday, May 16, 2007. Wood Storks nest in colonies in trees and forage singly or in small groups. CURTIS COMPTON / ccompton@ajc.com

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A black bear is one of several hundred that roam Shenandoah National Park, a steep increase from only two bears found in the park in 1937. Photo by National Park Service/Neil Lewis

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