What is a woodchuk?

Question

is it like a gopher or racoon or badger? and what part of the world do they live?

Answer 1

Geographic Range
Woodchucks are found over east central Alaska and across southern Canada to the Pacific coastal provinces, extending south to northern Idaho. They are also distributed in the eastern United States (south to central Alabama and Arkansas)and westward to the edge of the plains.

Biogeographic Regions:
nearctic (native ).

Habitat
As a result of deforestation and maintenance of the land of cultivated fields and pastures, the woodchuck has thrived and multiplied. Typical woodchuck habitat includes rolling farmland interspersed with grassy pastures, small woodlots, and brushy fencelines. Woodchucks especially prefer forest edges and openings though they are never far from cover, and they are partial to loam and sandy loam soils for burrowing. They have been found in a variety of forest types, including spruce and jack pine and cutover hardwoods.

These animals are found in the following types of habitat:
temperate .

Terrestrial Biomes:
forest .

Physical Description
Mass
3 to 5 kg
(6.6 to 11 lbs)


Length
415 to 675 mm
(16.34 to 26.57 in)

The woodchuck is the largest sciurid in its geographic range. It has a heavy, chunky body (18 -26 in) set atop relatively short but powerful legs well adapted for digging. Males are slightly larger than females. The dark-colored, bushy tail is about one-fourth as long as the total body length, much shorter in comparison to other squirrels. Woodchuck skulls are broad and flat. Strongly developed supraorbital processes project at right angles from the frontals with the tips projecting slightly forward.

Answer 2

A woodchuck is a mammal and a type of rodent (Order Rodentia), and its scientific name is Marmota monax (that should be italicized or underlined, since it's a scientific name... but yahoo won't let me do that). Incidentally, Marmota monax means "mouse mountain". They are definitely more closely related to a gopher than a raccoon or a badger, to answer your question specifically. Racoons and Badgers are both carnivorous mammals in the Order Carnivora. Gophers, like woodchucks, are rodents, although in a different Family I believe, although I don't have my reference with me at the time and I'm doing this basically from memory of a class I took. Anyway, they are also called groundhogs by some, and they can be found all over the United States, and in other parts of the world as well.

Answer 3

A woodchuck is the animal that chews down the tree that falls in the forrest and everyone wonders if it makes a sound.

Answer 4

Its a groundhog and its found throughout the US in areas where woods meet open fields, this is very prevelant in the central plains states.

Answer 5

I believe it's the same as a groundhog. I imagine they are all over most of the U.S. but I know for sure in the Midwest.

Answer 6

A woodchuck is kinda like a squirrel.
They live in the woods.

Answer 7

I think the same thing as a groundhog. Very common over much of the U.S.

Answer 8

yes

this site is a picture
http://www.doyourownpestcontrol.com/woodchuck.jpg

this site has pictures and more than you want to know about woodchucks

http://ed.fnal.gov/entry_exhibits/woodchuck/woodchuck.html

Answer 9

Question...
How much wood could a woodchuck, chuck....
If a woodchuck..could chuck wood???


Answer....
A woodchuck, would chuck...what a woodchuck,
would chuck.....IF a woodchuck...could chuck...wood

Answer 10

its a groundhog...like the weather creature