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["Lucky.Pittman" <Lucky.Pittman@murraystate.edu>]

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>I have been told that woodchucks and groundhogs are different animals. I
>remember was more of a southern species and the other lives more in the
>north.   Anyone know for sure?
>
Both are the same creature, Marmota monax.  Also known as a 'whistle pig' in 
some areas of North Carolina, or at least that's what some of my NC friends 
called 'em.

Never saw one in my native east-central AL, until I was of driving age(16), 
and never saw but a couple then - they'd set up housekeeping in the bank of 
an 
old railroad bed adjacent to a large kudzu patch.  My buddies thought they 
were otters, but I thought otherwise.  We caught one of them in a trap - I'll 
have to say it was a pretty mangy specimen, compared to most I've seen up 
here 
in KY & TN.

Lucky Pittman
Hopkinsville, KY