On Fri, 19 May 2006 16:05:38 -0600, "dnr" yodeled:

There's a young Starling right outside the window and it's a young
one, cheeping and scratching around the pine needles and stuff for
bugs and worms. It's a talkative bird, too, yak, yak yak; even got
Peaches chirping!. Persia is staring out the window as though
someone glued her butt to the floor
Jill
WE GOT SKWERLS TOODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!
DANTE
OOOH! Da SKWERLS are fun, too! Oncet last yere I saw dis fing Mommy sayd
was da LIZURD going up da tree! She sawed it, too. And dere wuz somfing
called da CHIPMUNK dat lived in da wood pile out back.
Persia

Is "chipmunk" the same thing as "woodchuck"? The only critters of this
nature
I know well are "opussums" and "raccoons". 'Possums are kinda
ratlike-looking
and very antisocial, generally, but in our experience harmless. Raccoons,
OTOH,
have a *lotta* nerve, are very intelligent (I'd swear they can reason) and
can do
limited damage in large numbers (even though cute, you don't wanna make pets
of them, it just doesn't work out well).



Woodchucks, possums and raccoons are not creatures of the "same
nature." They are not even related. Woodchucks, aka groundhogs (or
"whistle pigs" are rodents. Chipmunks, aka ground squirrels, are
also rodents, but quite different. They are related to squirrels,
mice, rats, voles, chinchillas, guinea pigs, prairie dogs and
hamsters.

Raccoons belong to their own distinct species, called Procyonidae.
They are related to the coatimundi and the kinkajou.

Opossums are different again. They are marsupials. The one we see
around is the Common opossum. They have a lot of relatives in South
America, and in Australia, but they are the only marsupial native to
the North American continent.





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