What's the difference between a groundhog, a beaver, and a woodchuck?

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The Groundhog (Marmota monax), also known as the Woodchuck, or the Whistlepig (particularly in the Southern United States), is a rodent of the family Sciuridae, belonging to the group of large ground squirrels known as marmots. Most marmots live in rocky and mountainous areas, but the Woodchuck is a lowland creature. It is widely distributed in North America, from Alaska to Alabama and Georgia. In the west it is found only in Alaska, Alberta, British Columbia and northern Washington.

Groundhogs are typically 40 to 65 cm long (including a 15 cm tail) and weigh 2 to 4 kg. In areas with fewer natural predators and large quantities of alfalfa, they can grow to 32 inches (80 cm) and 30 lb (14 kg). They can live up to six years in the wild, and ten years in captivity.

The groundhog is one of a small number of species that have grown greatly in numbers since the arrival of European settlers in North America, since the clearing of forests provided it with much suitable habitat. It prefers open country and the edges of woodland. As a consequence, it is a familiar animal to many people in the United States and Canada.

Groundhogs are excellent burrowers, using burrows for sleeping, rearing young, and hibernating. The burrows generally have two exits, and the groundhog rarely ventures far from one of them for safety. While preferring to flee from would-be predators, the groundhog is known to viciously defend its burrow when invaded by predators such as skunks, foxes, weasels or domestic dogs. It can inflict quite a bit of damage with its two large incisors and front claws, especially when the predator is at a disadvantage inside the burrow.

In the United States and Canada, there is a Groundhog Day celebration that gives the groundhog some added popularity.


Groundhog standing erect.The name woodchuck has nothing etymologically to do with wood. It stems from an Algonquian name for the animal (possibly Narragansett), wuchak. The apparent relationship between the two words has led to the common tongue twister, "How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? — A woodchuck would chuck as much wood as a woodchuck could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood."

The Wall Street Journal quotes wildlife expert Richard Thomas as calculating that the average Groundhog moves approximately 1 m³ (35 cubic feet), or 320 kg (700 pounds), of dirt when digging a burrow.

Usually Groundhogs breed in their second year, but a small percentage may breed as yearlings. The breeding season extends from early March to middle or late April, following hibernation. A mated pair will remain in the same den throughout the 28-32 day gestation period. As birth of the young approaches in April or May, the male will leave the den. One litter is produced annually, usually containing 2-6 blind, naked and helpless young. Young groundhogs are weaned and ready to seek their own dens at five to six weeks of

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Groundhog Vs Woodchuck

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Woodchuck Vs Groundhog

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A beaver is a rodent that cuts down trees with its teeth and builds dams and lodges from the wood. Some beavers live in hollows in the river bank. Their primary food is poplar bark. Woodchucks are also known as groundhogs. They burrow into the ground and their diet is mostly green leafy vegetation. They often do a lot of damage to gardens and vegetable crops. Their burrows can be dangerous to livestock and people if they step in the holes. Beavers tend to be larger than woodchucks and their pelts are more valuable. Beavers can cause damage by flooding land behind their dams.

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What's the difference between a groundhog, a beaver, and a woodchuck?
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Answer 6

a ground hog and woodchuck are the same animal. a beaver is another animal. groundhogs live in holes they have dug int the ground. beavers live in a construction they have made in the middle of a pond, often one they have made by damming a stream.

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size, genetics, locale