can someone help me correctly identify this animal please?
http://imgur.com/ExSII.jpg
Is this a beaver? The tail doesn’t seem flat enough.
Groundhog.
That is a woodchuck (aka groundhog, whistle-pig, or land-beaver). We have one that lives in our yard.
Thanks for the quick answers!
A woodchuck?
Damn! Beaten out again!
Quick! Did you see how much wood it was chucking?!
How much ground could a groundhog grind if a groundhog could grind ground?
740 pounds.
Someone actually observed a woodchuck excavating a new burrow, waited until it was done, then went and weighed the amount of dirt excavated, on the presumption that the quantity of wood which a woodchuck would chuck would be the same as the amount of dirt which a woodchuck did chuck in actuality. (Say that five times fast! :D)
The result was 740 pounds.
Wouldn’t a Groundhog hog ground and not grind it?
I got this picture of a father hog saying to an adolescent pig wearing aviator goggles, “You’re grounded!” 
Carl…?
except that Rocky is a squirrel.
I don’t think we could be any more offtopic than this :dubious:
Thanks! I actually knew Richard Thomas casually when I worked for the state.
Given that the OP thought it could be a beaver, maybe it’s a nutria?
"The article reports on the work of New York state wildlife expert Richard Thomas, who found that a woodchuck could (and does) chuck around 35 cubic feet of dirt in the course of digging a burrow. Thomas reasoned that if a woodchuck could chuck wood, he would chuck an amount equivalent to the weight of the dirt, or 700 pounds. "
Something must have gotten mis-transcribed there. A cubic yard (27 cubic feet) of dirt weighs an average of a ton. So we’d be talking more like 2700 pounds if the wood chuck was actually chucking 35 cubic feet of dirt.
(You can google the weight of a cubic yard of dirt to verify my figures, but if you want a back of the envelope calculation, dirt is obviously denser than water, as it will sink. Water weighs 62 lbs per cubic foot, or about 1700 lbs. )
What? You’ve never heard the expression “When pigs fly”?
I got the joke. The aviator goggles are what make the picture funny. (“You’re grounded.”) Like a Far Side cartoon.
How much munk could a chipmunk chip if a chipmunk could chip munk?
Need answer fast.
I dunno, but what I want to know is: How much beaver would a land-beaver land if a land-beaver could land beaver?
OK, I got that from the wiki article.