Marmota monax

These creatures have a lot of different names but are most famous as a "groundhog" or a "woodchuck". They play a small part in modern culture with Groundhog's Day and for the tongue twister "would a woodchuck chuck wood if a wood chuck could chuck wood?" For this reason they are also associated with beavers, as beavers do chuck wood, but woodchucks do not. This tidbit is noted. Patrats from Pokemon may be partially based on them, especially given their brown variation and their eyes (as groundhogs are associated with seeing their shadow, perhaps its like waking up from a deep sleep with that mood). A backyard farmer made a separate garden for a groundhog family as it kept destroying his garden, so he compromised. The video got famous as it was a story published by The Dodo.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNdts2P-djg
== References ==
Category:Marmota
Category:Groundhogs
Category:Woodchucks