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What Rodent?
updated: Sep 11, 2011, 6:54 AM
By Edhat Subscriber
I am vacationing in the Queensbury/Lake George area of upstate New York and I went out to my rental car one morning and saw this daring fellow sniffing around a tree near the front parking lot. Mind you this is right in the middle of town. What is it?
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BEACHTAR
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2011-09-11 07:01 AM |
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Cute! A groundhog?
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COMMENT 212973
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2011-09-11 07:06 AM |
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AKA woodchuck quoting there the childhood, tongue-twisting rhyme, "How much wood can a woodchuck chuck...."
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BEACHTAR
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2011-09-11 07:21 AM |
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I never knew a woodchuck and a groundhog were the same thing.... I always learn something new on Edhat! :)
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COMMENT 212982
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2011-09-11 07:44 AM |
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I grew up in NJ and we had a family of these guys that wouldn't go away. That is a groundhog.
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COMMENT 213009P
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2011-09-11 08:58 AM |
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Yep, the groundhog is nicknamed a woodchuck because... "How much wood would a groundhog chuck if a groundhog could chuck wood" didn't seem like such a catchy tongue-twister !! This is the overgrown gopher named "Punkxsutawney Phil" who pokes his head out of his burrow on Groundhog Day to see if it's spring yet.
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COMMENT 213031
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2011-09-11 10:10 AM |
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Hey! Summer a year ago I was at Scroon Lake! Nice part of the country. We didn't see any groundhogs though.
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COMMENT 213050P
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2011-09-11 11:05 AM |
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They're very destructive to gardens --- think gophers and multiply.
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COMMENT 213107P
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2011-09-11 01:24 PM |
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213050P - Or are we destructive to their land??...
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COMMENT 213127P
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2011-09-11 02:00 PM |
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Scroon Lake ! I watched the July 4th fireworks there a few years back ,,, we have a cabin at Brant Lake but there is no fireworks show there. I've been wondering how the area fared in the aftermath of the hurricane rains ? There was some nasty wave action documented at Lake George.
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COMMENT 213129P
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2011-09-11 02:04 PM |
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I think the gov't is preparing to pay reparations to the groundhogs for stealing their land ... but they never signed a treaty.
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COMMENT 213179
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2011-09-11 05:05 PM |
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It's a pernicious knid---run!!!
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COMMENT 213324
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2011-09-12 09:19 AM |
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groundhog, the lowland version of a marmot.
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COMMENT 213351
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2011-09-12 10:16 AM |
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Thanx for the memories...I grew up in Mass. & spent numerous summers at Lake George as a child. The last time I was there (as an adult), I couldn't figure out how I ever even got my feet in that cold water. Surprised to see that woodchuck there as I assumed that any wildlife would become less & less visible as population grows.
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COMMENT 213395
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2011-09-12 12:12 PM |
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179: That's Vernicious knid.
HI PHIL!
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