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I found this fellow at the FortWhyte Alive nature center. The woodchuck has a heavy, chunky body (18 -26 in) set atop relatively short but powerful legs well adapted for digging. Males are slightly larger than females. The dark-colored, bushy tail is about one-fourth as long as the total body length, much shorter in comparison to other squirrels. Woodchuck skulls are broad and flat. The feet are black and slightly flattened. The hind foot has five well-developed digits. The rudimentary first digit of the forelimb is covered by a flat nail. All other digits terminate in curved claws that are useful in digging. Woodchuck incisors are ever-growing and heavily constructed with the anterior faces ivory or yellowish ivory in color, lacking the dark yellow pigmentation of other rodents. If incisors are not worn down properly by occluding with the tooth opposite them in the course of chewing, they may continue to grow with often fatal results..... NOTE. I just posted a new album called "Come see our home and gardens" for your interest...Thanks