Art by  kjorteo
Original submission: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1698089/
Artist's description below:

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 thumbclawz had this really neat idea of trying to draw on your local wildlife for character inspiration. Everyone either goes for the usual suspects like domesticated pets or the most exotic things on Earth, often overlooking the really neat critters in your own area.

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/514705/

Unfortunately, it's too late for me; I went the way of the Siberian husky long ago, I don't really want to change my entire main character (I hate the word "fursona," but...) and my secondary cast doesn't really have any holes in it that necessitate new characters right now. So, I just threw some generic one-shot guys together. Also, I realize I'm a terrible artist and I'm just not interested enough in drawing to really want to buckle down and improve (that same amount of dedication would better serve my writing, which I enjoy doing more and am already better at,) but I wanted to participate anyway, so I just threw this random sketch out. You can tell I didn't spend a tremendous deal of time on it.

I live in New Mexico. I wanted to participate in this meme because I really love my state (I'm not one to get super flag-wavingly-patriotic over the entire country ever since the extreme right more or less hijacked the concept of patriotism, but New Mexico in particular is awesome) and because we happen to have some pretty neat wildlife.

Left to right:

A...um...thing. My parents call them chicken-killers, but I know for a fact that that's a local invented term and that's absolutely not what they're called. It took me years to find out what they really are. I think they're the males of the species labidus coecus, the New World Legionary Ant. All I know for sure is that they look like some sort of male ant/wasp hybrid (wings, can fly, stinger) and act like moths (incredibly stupid, attracted to light to the exclusion of all else, will just stupidly buzz around any random light source so long as it's there.) Obviously, this one is more refined than his non-anthro brethren and is quite the gentleman.

A Texas Horned Lizard. AKA Horned Toad or Horny Toad because they're fat and round and basically frog-shaped, but covered in horns, and are lizards. Most notable for the ability to squirt high-pressure jets of blood from its eyes as a defense mechanism. (Presumably they bleed all over a predator and then run away the same way threatened squids use ink.)

A poster of a coyote. Coyotes are one of the local species that have caught on enough in the fandom at large that I probably don't need to plug them any more, and I was out of room after drawing the other four and needed a fifth just for the sake of the meme, so I just threw a random coyote poster on the wall. He's wearing a bandana because a lot of howling coyote sculptures I've seen have bandandas for some reason.

A roadrunner. Roadrunners are huge, usually walk (they can fly, but almost never do,) have extremely low fear of humans compared to other birds, and act curious and exploratory. They go on adventures.

A packrat. There's a reason people who hoard things are called packrats; the actual real-life animal has quite a reputation for it. Specifically, they burrow into the ground and are known for making the world's messiest nests by dumping anything they can find around the entrance of their burrow to try and deter predators. They love using broken-off pieces of cactus for this, for what should be obvious reasons. I think the packrat here took the horned lizard's shirt and the roadrunner's pants.