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For Groundhog Day: odd, interesting or memorable rodent names

  1. whistle-pig (a regional name for groundhog)
  2. Middle East blind mole-rat
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For Groundhog Day: odd, interesting or memorable rodent names

  1. whistle-pig (a regional name for groundhog)
  2. Middle East blind mole-rat
  3. horned gopher (extinct)
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For Groundhog Day: odd, interesting or memorable rodent names

  1. whistle-pig (a regional name for groundhog)
  2. Middle East blind mole-rat
  3. horned gopher (extinct)
  4. Naked Mole Rat
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For Groundhog Day: odd, interesting or memorable rodent names

  1. whistle-pig (a regional name for groundhog)
  2. Middle East blind mole-rat
  3. horned gopher (extinct)
  4. Naked Mole Rat
  5. Mickey
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For Groundhog Day: odd, interesting or memorable rodent names

  1. whistle-pig (a regional name for groundhog)
  2. Middle East blind mole-rat
  3. horned gopher (extinct)
  4. Naked Mole Rat
  5. Mickey
  6. Capybara (web-footed 200-pounders)
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For Groundhog Day: odd, interesting or memorable rodent names

  1. whistle-pig (a regional name for groundhog)
  2. Middle East blind mole-rat
  3. horned gopher (extinct)
  4. Naked Mole Rat
  5. Mickey
  6. Capybara (web-footed 200-pounders)
  7. Josephoartigasia monesi (1 ton rodent that lived 4 -2 million years ago)
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For Groundhog Day: odd, interesting or memorable rodent names

  1. whistle-pig (a regional name for groundhog)
  2. Middle East blind mole-rat
  3. horned gopher (extinct)
  4. Naked Mole Rat
  5. Mickey
  6. Capybara (web-footed 200-pounders)
  7. Josephoartigasia monesi (1 ton rodent that lived 4 -2 million years ago)
  8. spiny dormouse
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For Groundhog Day: odd, interesting or memorable rodent names

  1. whistle-pig (a regional name for groundhog)
  2. Middle East blind mole-rat
  3. horned gopher (extinct)
  4. Naked Mole Rat
  5. Mickey
  6. Capybara (web-footed 200-pounders)
  7. Josephoartigasia monesi (1 ton rodent that lived 4 -2 million years ago)
  8. spiny dormouse
  9. Pseudomys

(Cause it’s a fake mys, I guess)

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For Groundhog Day: odd, interesting or memorable rodent names

  1. whistle-pig (a regional name for groundhog)
  2. Middle East blind mole-rat
  3. horned gopher (extinct)
  4. Naked Mole Rat
  5. Mickey
  6. Capybara (web-footed 200-pounders)
  7. Josephoartigasia monesi (1 ton rodent that lived 4 -2 million years ago)
  8. spiny dormouse
  9. Pseudomys
  10. Spiny Norman

Interviewer: “Was there anything unusual about him?”

Gloria: “I should say not. Except, that Dinsdale was convinced that he was being watched by a giant hedgehog whom he referred to as ‘Spiny Norman’.”

Interviewer: “How big was Norman supposed to be?”

Gloria: “Normally Spiny Norman was wont to be about twelve feet from snout to tail, but when Dinsdale was depressed Norman could be anything up to eight hundred yards long. When Norman was about Dinsdale would go very quiet and start wobbling and his nose would swell up and his teeth would move about and he’d get very violent and claim that he’d laid Stanley Baldwin.”

http://www.montypython.net/scripts/piranha.php

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“He was a gentleman, Dinsdale, and what’s more he knew how to treat a female impersonator.”

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Disqualified. Hedgehogs are erinaceids, not rodents. More closely related to shrews. Never mind, groundhogs are not rodents either.

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Curious as to why groundhogs are not rodents? They belong to the order Rodentia according to Britannica.com: "Groundhog (Marmota monax), also called woodchuck, one of 14 species of marmots (Marmota), considered basically a giant North American ground squirrel. It is sometimes destructive to gardens and pasturelands. Classified as a marmot, the groundhog is a member of the squirrel family, Sciuridae, within the order Rodentia. This stout-bodied rodent weighs up to 6 kg (13 pounds) . . . Groundhog | Size, Diet, Groundhog Day, & Facts | Britannica

Also according to the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History site:
Marmota monax Woodchuck
Order: Rodentia
Family: Sciuridae
https://naturalhistory.si.edu/mna/image_info.cfm?species_id=146

and this book: Thorington, R.W., Jr.; Hoffman, R.S. (2005). “Family Sciuridae”. In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 802

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For Groundhog Day: odd, interesting or memorable rodent names

  1. whistle-pig (a regional name for groundhog)
  2. Middle East blind mole-rat
  3. horned gopher (extinct)
  4. Naked Mole Rat
  5. Mickey
  6. Capybara (web-footed 200-pounders)
  7. Josephoartigasia monesi (1 ton rodent that lived 4 -2 million years ago)
  8. spiny dormouse
  9. Pseudomys
  10. Spiny Norman
  11. Flying squirrel
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For Groundhog Day: odd, interesting or memorable rodent names

  1. whistle-pig (a regional name for groundhog)
  2. Middle East blind mole-rat
  3. horned gopher (extinct)
  4. Naked Mole Rat
  5. Mickey
  6. Capybara (web-footed 200-pounders)
  7. Josephoartigasia monesi (1 ton rodent that lived 4 -2 million years ago)
  8. spiny dormouse
  9. Pseudomys
  10. Spiny Norman
  11. Flying squirrel
  12. Mighty Mouse
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For Groundhog Day: odd, interesting or memorable rodent names

  1. whistle-pig (a regional name for groundhog)
  2. Middle East blind mole-rat
  3. horned gopher (extinct)
  4. Naked Mole Rat
  5. Mickey
  6. Capybara (web-footed 200-pounders)
  7. Josephoartigasia monesi (1 ton rodent that lived 4 -2 million years ago)
  8. spiny dormouse
  9. Pseudomys
  10. Spiny Norman
  11. Flying squirrel
  12. Mighty Mouse
  13. Minnie Mouse

Next: Fiction told in the first person:

  1. The Spenser novels by Robert B. Parker, starting with The Godwulf Manuscript
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Fiction told in the first person:

  1. The Spenser novels by Robert B. Parker, starting with The Godwulf Manuscript
  2. Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger.
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Fiction told in the first person:

  1. The Spenser novels by Robert B. Parker, starting with The Godwulf Manuscript
  2. Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
  3. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
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Fiction told in the first person:

  1. The Spenser novels by Robert B. Parker, starting with The Godwulf Manuscript
  2. Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
  3. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
  4. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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Fiction told in the first person:

  1. The Spenser novels by Robert B. Parker, starting with The Godwulf Manuscript
  2. Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
  3. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
  4. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  5. Aztec by Gary Jennings

In the form of a long oral history provided to Catholic monks.

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Fiction told in the first person:

  1. The Spenser novels by Robert B. Parker, starting with The Godwulf Manuscript
  2. Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
  3. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
  4. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  5. Aztec by Gary Jennings
  6. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey