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What is this animal?
This is a trail cam pic from near Williamson County in IL. I think it's a marmot.
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I believe you are correct!
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Nope, marmot have a face similar to a prairie dog or squirrel, notice I said similar. This looks like some type of ferrel cat.
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Feral cat? What happened to its ears? I say marmot or prairie dog on steroids.
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Wood chuck. AKA Marmota Monax. AKA Marmot.
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Baby Chupacabra, rarely caught on film.
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Looks like a ground hog to me. Marmots and ground hogs are closely related cousins. Marmots live in western states, ground hogs in the east.
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Marmots and ground hogs are the same critter. They're a giant tree rat. Kind of odd to see one walking that high on its pins though.
No cat looks like that. Feral or otherwise.
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Univ of Utah says MARMOT. THis one is the western species, we call them rockchucks.
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I have been all over the US, and to Switzerland where they are quite celebrated, and I've never seen a marmot/groundhog rock/woodchuck with legs like that.
Is it possibly a winter weight, light-haired pacific fisher?
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Saw one on the side of a tree one time. Never would have thought they would or could climb.
That one might be hold himself up off the snow. They dislike cold and wet and are a true hibernator. The fur is kind of thin. I have shot 'em off snow banks in early spring though. Earliest one was on 3 March, long ago. They do have a different name according to where you are. But they're all the same beastie.
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That thar looks like a Whistle Pig to me, aka woodchuck, aka marmot.
I have seen some mighty big ones in southern Wi. and some mighty big corresponding holes in the ground.
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By winter weight, I meant fattened up.
I agree that it looks like a groundhog/marmot. But I have killed and trapped literally hundreds of those. Not once I have seen legs that would allow one to walk like that.
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I tend to agree with the chupacabra statement. A hybrid possibly with the marmot. The op's picture the head is not like any marmot shown in the picture the head is distinct and round and not as oval and the ears stick out a lot, whereas you can hardly see them here.
Also as stated the legs are taller with the stomach not as pronounced as other marmots.
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That definitely ain't a marmot. Could be a fisher cat maybe.
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It's a Marmadoodle!
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It's a Tasmanian Devil!
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I must be the only one that thinks it looks a little like a wolverine.
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I've never seen a groundhog/whistlepig/woodchuck/marmot standing/walking tall like that. The snout doesn't seem pointy enough either.
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Looks like a young immature woodchucker to me. Ain't no Fisher.
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for poster O'Heir #11
I am not sure what is pictured here, but I can assure you that groundhogs in northeast Wisconsin do climb. I have an image of my terrier going up a tree after one. The critter met my two terriers in the woods and like this poster I suspect he did not know he could climb until just before he went up the tree. this image is on my computer and if given instruction I would share it here.
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The eyes look like a predator's eyes to me.
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Not a ground hog, or a Marmot. Tasmanian Devil would be my first guess. But if we are native I would say one of those invasive species in the Florida swamps. some kind of little African wild Pig. I see a marten from Wy Mark or a Mink.
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