are beavers and woodchucks the same?
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What is the difference between a woodchuck and a beaver? ... The woodchuck is a ground burrower belonging to a group of large ground squirrels known as marmots while the beaver is a semi-aquatic animal that builds dams to create water barriers and lodges made from sticks and wood.
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A Hedgehog, subfamily Erinacinae, is covered in short spines. It resembles an echidna or a little porcupine, though these animals are not related. A Groundhog is a totally different species, family Sciuridae, related to marmots and ground squirrels. They look a little like beavers or fat tree squirrels.
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Here's my answer from April 2017: According to the Poetry Foundation, a woodchuck would chuck “As much wood as a woodchuck could chuck, If a woodchuck could chuck wood.” (bit.ly/woodchuck-poem) Researchers at Cornell determined that a woodchuck could chuck about 700 pounds: (bit.ly/cornell-woodchucks).
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Bison are the largest land mammal in North America – bigger than elk, moose, and grizzly bears! The male bison is called a bull.
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There are over 200 species of squirrels throughout the world. In New Hampshire, we have ground squirrels (the eastern chipmunk, and amazingly enough, the woodchuck) and tree squirrels, which include eastern gray squirrels, northern and southern flying squir- rels, and the American red squirrel.
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Well-known rodents include mice, rats, squirrels, prairie dogs, chipmunks, chinchillas, porcupines, beavers, guinea pigs, hamsters, gerbils and capybaras. ... Most rodents are small animals with robust bodies, short limbs, and long tails.
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Hares are generally larger than rabbits, with longer ears, and have black markings on their fur. Hares have not been domesticated, while some rabbits are raised for food and kept as house pets. The domestic pet known as the Belgian Hare is a rabbit that has been selectively bred to resemble a hare.
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Rabbits, hares, and a few other species make up the Lagomorpha. Shrews, moles and hedgehogs are also not rodents; they are classified in the Mammal order Eulipotyphla.)
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The ground squirrel has body stripes like chipmunks, but no head stripes. A tree squirrel is larger, has a longer tail and no stripes. They all have short fur and small rounded ears.
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They are both mammals, but bears are from the order Carnivora and family Ursidae, and pigs are from the order Arteriodactyla (even-toed ungulates, even numbers of hoof parts per foot) and the family Suidae. ... Bears have paws and claws; pigs have hooves.
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(Incidentally, the Rodentia does not include rabbits; rabbits differ from rodents in having an extra pair of incisors and in other skeletal features. Rabbits, hares, and a few other species make up the Lagomorpha. Shrews, moles and hedgehogs are also not rodents; they are classified in the Mammal order Eulipotyphla.)
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A groundhog by any other name. Groundhogs are also variously referred to as woodchucks, whistle-pigs, or land-beavers.
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Rabbits, Voles, Woodchucks, Deer, Chipmunks, Squirrels. All eat leaves or fruits of plants in vegetable gardens.
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Hairy Woodpeckers are more closely related to the very different-looking White-headed and Red-cockaded Woodpeckers, while Downy's closest relatives are Ladder-backed and Nuttall's. This suggests that Downy and Hairy Woodpeckers look like one another for reasons other than common ancestry.
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Species at risk in British Columbia include mammals such as the Northern Fur Seal, Pacific Water Shrew, Townsend's Mole, American Badger, and amphibians such as the Red-legged Frog and the Oregon Spotted Frog.
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Jackrabbits are actually hares, not rabbits. Hares are larger than rabbits, and they typically have taller hind legs and longer ears.
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Groundhogs and woodchucks are the same animal. “Woodchuck” is just another name for “groundhog.” Other names that are used for this particular animal include “whistle pig” and “land beaver.” The groundhog is one of the 14 species of marmots.