Woodchuck enrichment
Apr. 30th, 2007 07:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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An April Vacation week camp group built this climbing structure for woodchuck enrichment.
It worked as a one-time thing, anyway.
urbpanAn April Vacation week camp group built this climbing structure for woodchuck enrichment.
It worked as a one-time thing, anyway.
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Date: 2007-04-30 11:30 am (UTC)I bet he'd like some pictures on those walls!
Is A Woodchuck A Gopher?
Date: 2007-04-30 01:01 pm (UTC)Thanks! (Not that I will start calling her school the woodchucks! ;)
Re: Is A Woodchuck A Gopher?
Date: 2007-04-30 01:57 pm (UTC)No, they are distinctly different fossorial (burrowing) rodents. Woodchucks are marmot (Genus marmota) in the squirrel family.
"Gopher" is a somewhat informal term usually referring to pocket gophers, a family of about 35 species, ranging from small rat-sized animals to a large (2 pound) south american species.
Size is the most obvious difference: Woodchucks, in my experience, range from about 5 pounds to almost 10. Also, gophers do a lot of their digging with their teeth (and have highly modified jaws to do so), while marmots dig more with their limbs.
Re: Is A Woodchuck A Gopher?
Date: 2007-04-30 03:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-04-30 01:02 pm (UTC)'Hey, we're Woodchuck Enrichment and we came to ROCK!'
-G
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Date: 2007-04-30 05:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-04-30 07:20 pm (UTC)How much wood could a woodchuck chew?
Date: 2007-04-30 07:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-04-30 06:34 pm (UTC)Every time I hear about "enrichment," I think of flour.
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Date: 2007-05-01 04:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-02 12:49 am (UTC)no subject
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