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Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Banta, Nathaniel Moore, 1867- Schneider, Albert, 1863- Higley, William Kerr, 1860-1908 Abbott, Gerard Alan
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, American Audobon association
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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A GROUP OF RODENTS 129 The woodchuck is strictly herbivorous and semi-noctur-nal. It leaves the burrow in the late afternoon and returnsto it not later than very early morning, though as fallapproaches it spends more time foraging. It eats apples,sometimes cHmbing the tree to obtain them, and is verjfond of melons and almost anything else which is succulent. In feeding, the animal usually sits upright on its hindfeet and holds the food to the mouth with the front feet.A fuU-groAvn animal is usually nearly two feet long, andranges in color from b^o^ to silver-gray. The ears aresmall and by muscles can be closed while the animal is dig-ging. Woodchucks do some damage to farm crops, particu-larly garden stuff, and the burrows in the open field mightmean the ruin of a horse through the breaking of its leg.The presence of a woodchuck on a farm adds considerableinterest to a life which otherwise might be monotonous, anda quick interest in such relatively harmless animals is athing to be s

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