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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: fotoguzzi on November 25, 2021, 03:18:52 PM
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I'll tell what I think after you experts guess.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Trail-cam/i-WCvW5T3/0/d03eea9d/1280/2021112515162966--1248352484130578411-IMG_4395-1280.mp4) (https://fotoguzzi.smugmug.com/Trail-cam/i-WCvW5T3/A)
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Ground hog?
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No-see-um.
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Polar bear in a blizzard..
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Must be a snipe. Never had any luck hunting those.
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Jabberwocky
-AJ
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An invisible one ?
TS
hmm, you can't see the video? What's up with that? It embedded when I view it.
Here's a link
https://fotoguzzi.smugmug.com/Trail-cam/i-WCvW5T3/A
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Polar bear in a blizzard..
Did you not see the penguin he was playing chess with?
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Groundhog?
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(https://i.ibb.co/zsn3G4V/jackalope.jpg) (https://ibb.co/zsn3G4V)
The wily Jackalope
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The three toed bi-sexual sloth.
Tex
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hmm, you can't see the video? What's up with that? It embedded when I view it.
Here's a link
https://fotoguzzi.smugmug.com/Trail-cam/i-WCvW5T3/A
A snow turtle!!
-AJ
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Groundhog?
+1 Although it walks funny for one.
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Looks to me like a young opossum that's lost some or all of its tail, which is considered a non-releasable rehab because they need their tail to have the best chance of surviving in the wild. They carry bedding materials with their tail and use it for stability while climbing. The last opossum we had did not have a tail. The one we have now (in the other room) does.
On this Thanksgiving, I'm thankful that you live far enough away from us so that we wouldn't "need" to set a trap it catch it and place it with a rehabber.....
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Looks too big for an Indiana 'possum.. but could be, I guess.
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A cat that ate tooooo much.
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Looks too big for an Indiana 'possum.. but could be, I guess.
Some of the boars get big, but they normally don't travel as fast or stand as tall as the younger thinner ones.
My wife does opossums like I do bikes. Except she's inspected, selected, detected and formally protected by her USDA registration, etc etc and so are the possums she keeps. The new area federal agent came by to visit/inspect the facility and our current opossum Mimi about 3 wks ago.
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Porcupine
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Looks to me like a young opossum that's lost some or all of its tail,
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Gait, feet, surely opossum. Sorry about the tail. Life is tough out there in the wild.
Patrick Hayes
Fremont CA
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Thanks for the input.. groundhog are not nocturnal so that's out I think. We do have opossum here but kind of rare so my brother and I are going with porcupine.. sorry can't be definite tho.
Last night we had a fox which is not rare,
(https://i.ibb.co/3Fmxrky/8748974-F-64-B5-4853-BA0-E-C8-C431641-C78.png) (https://ibb.co/3Fmxrky)
I got good video of the fox family a few years ago on 4th of July. Warning , it's 16 minutes long.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00jJErAmQnY
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possum
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Hi Foto, 11-26-21
Looks like a woodchuck (ground hog). I have one living under my front porch.
Be well, stay well,
DougG
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Hi Foto, 11-26-21
Looks like a woodchuck (ground hog). I have one living under my front porch.
Be well, stay well,
DougG
I think it is a woodchuck . Some look like they could be thirty pounds and I see them at night sometimes when I’m out for a ride. They usually don’t dart out but can move quickly if startled .
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Chupacabra
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Thanks for the input.. groundhog are not nocturnal so that's out I think. We do have opossum here but kind of rare so my brother and I are going with porcupine.. sorry can't be definite tho.
Last night we had a fox which is not rare,
(https://i.ibb.co/3Fmxrky/8748974-F-64-B5-4853-BA0-E-C8-C431641-C78.png) (https://ibb.co/3Fmxrky)
I got good video of the fox family a few years ago on 4th of July. Warning , it's 16 minutes long.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00jJErAmQnY
Foto maybe some are nocturnal, but neighbors trail cam confirms several late nite visits to my garden by local woodchuck/groundhog. But I haven’t seen any in the winter. You may have a mutant variation how close to the nuclear power plant do you live?
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I'm still on with opossum for this guy and sorry about his lost tail.
First, when in a hurry, a groundhog or woodchuck (Marmota monax) will run or have a gallop gait like a horse. Two legs at at time. Watch the squirrels in your local park. The woodchuck is just a big squirrel. The opossum (Didelphis virginiana) however almost never runs under any circumstance. They have a waddling, walking gait just like this one.
Second, a groundhog or woodchuck has feet that are black or brown, covered in fur, and blended directly with its leg fur. The opossum has distinct white or fleshy naked toes in contrast with its feet. There are several brief moments in this video where you can see the light-colored feet, especially left front.
The opossum appears very fierce with a long, gaping mouth and many teeth. They very seldom bite and it is not a particularly strong, crushing bite. Its just the hissing and gaping that are so fierce. Watch this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpGwt_baExk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpGwt_baExk)
or this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USg_QsCfNmk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USg_QsCfNmk)
What you need to know is that scientific genus name, Didelphis. Derived from Greek. "Didelphis" means 'two vaginas' because that is how the female anatomy is shaped. Actually, one bifurcated vagina. I'll let you guess what the male has for sexual compatibility.
Patrick Hayes
Fremont CA
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Groundhogs have a beaver-like tail. More likely to be a opossum without a tail than a groundhog without a tail.
-AJ
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Might have to catch it. You have welding gloves….
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How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood...?
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What region was sighting?
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Porcupine
That's what I'm thinking.
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If in MN, then I’d say porcupine as well
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Around here in Central Connecticut we would probably call it a woodchuck which begs the question how much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood
TOMB
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As someone already commented, pehayes, groundhogs/woodchucks hop two feet forward.
Usually out in daytime, rarely at night.
You could set up a 4 trap using an upside down wheelbarrow. Just need to check it as soon as they spring it.
That way you will not hurt the critter and you can get a better look at it.
Or just leave the camera up, maybe you'll get a better view.
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Yes I'm in Minnesota (Scandia) we have had opossum sightings and my dog trapped one under a wheelbarrow, I didn't know what was under until I lifted it up and the possum was hissing and growling and showing teeth, I musta jumped 2 feet while restraining my dog. He waddled off in no kind of hurry. I guess that encounter was better than a porcupine for my dog :boozing:
But I'm still going with the porcupine for now, the camera is always on so maybe he'll come back for another look. Opossum is my second guess, our woodchucks are bigger than what this thing looks like.
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I'm still on with opossum for this guy and sorry about his lost tail.
First, when in a hurry, a groundhog or woodchuck (Marmota monax) will run or have a gallop gait like a horse. Two legs at at time. Watch the squirrels in your local park. The woodchuck is just a big squirrel. The opossum (Didelphis virginiana) however almost never runs under any circumstance. They have a waddling, walking gait just like this one.
Second, a groundhog or woodchuck has feet that are black or brown, covered in fur, and blended directly with its leg fur. The opossum has distinct white or fleshy naked toes in contrast with its feet. There are several brief moments in this video where you can see the light-colored feet, especially left front.
The opossum appears very fierce with a long, gaping mouth and many teeth. They very seldom bite and it is not a particularly strong, crushing bite. Its just the hissing and gaping that are so fierce. Watch this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpGwt_baExk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpGwt_baExk)
or this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USg_QsCfNmk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USg_QsCfNmk)
What you need to know is that scientific genus name, Didelphis. Derived from Greek. "Didelphis" means 'two vaginas' because that is how the female anatomy is shaped. Actually, one bifurcated vagina. I'll let you guess what the male has for sexual compatibility.
Patrick Hayes
Fremont CA
Very well said, Patrick.
My wife has been teaching in the Environmental Education field for decades. In recent years, after working with them as a rehabilitator, she has settled upon the very understudied and greatly misunderstood Virginia opossums -the only species and only marsupial native to North America- as ideal for teaching & changing the opinions of young and old. They're truly amazing animals.
Figured I could post a pic of our possum Mimi sitting on a Guzzi giving a shout out to her friend in the video, but we only got as far as the ottoman in front of me while Christmas lights were being hung..
(https://i.ibb.co/rF0LX66/image.jpg) (https://ibb.co/rF0LX66)
We're all still kind of slacking off after the big eat yesterday... She liked the chestnut dressing with a little bit of fresh cranberry.
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PORCUPINE~tho not sure of the spelling; my guess anyway! They used to wear us out in west Texas!!!
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I found a few videos on line showing a porcupine walking and they do sorta walk like in my video but also have a distinctive tail that doesn't show in my video so maybe your right it's a possum.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6JrjehsnIc
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Must have gotten loose again.
(https://i.ibb.co/jDP7pWM/Pet-Flyer-3.png) (https://ibb.co/jDP7pWM)
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Brad he looks friendly enough, just grab him from behind. If he’s not friendly, toss him in the stewpot. It’ll be easy and mostly safe.
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I could feed it to the monster that lives in our woods.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Monster/i-Wng7sLW/0/819c3813/L/2021112620232443--6476674474934305817-IMG_2837-L.jpg) (https://fotoguzzi.smugmug.com/Monster/i-Wng7sLW/A)
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Looks like the Jersey Devil who is lost….
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Very well said, Patrick.
My wife has been teaching in the Environmental Education field for decades. In recent years, after working with them as a rehabilitator, she has settled upon the very understudied and greatly misunderstood Virginia opossums -the only species and only marsupial native to North America- as ideal for teaching & changing the opinions of young and old. They're truly amazing animals.
Figured I could post a pic of our possum Mimi sitting on a Guzzi giving a shout out to her friend in the video, but we only got as far as the ottoman in front of me while Christmas lights were being hung..
(https://i.ibb.co/rF0LX66/image.jpg) (https://ibb.co/rF0LX66)
We're all still kind of slacking off after the big eat yesterday... She liked the chestnut dressing with a little bit of fresh cranberry.
They are cute until you see their teeth. Don’t know why such a docile critter needs such fearsome dentition
My wife is currently on a traveling nurse assignment at a hospital as far east in TN as one can get and had a patient's visitor show up with their pet ‘possum in a baby carriage. No one seemed the least bit surprised.
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He's back,
https://fotoguzzi.smugmug.com/Trail-cam/i-X43cg5r/A
Someone please tell me why this clip is not embedded like the first one. I pasted the same type of link.
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I don't see any embedded video, just a link. I don't think that's a feature Luap has ever had turned on.
But I DO SEE a tail this time, more like a ground hog than opossum.
-AJ
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That is an opossum. no question. no doubt.
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I don't see any embedded video, just a link. I don't think that's a feature Luap has ever had turned on.
But I DO SEE a tail this time, more like a ground hog than opossum.
-AJ
the very first page in this thread has an embedded video . But I pasted the same type link here but it’s a link only At least on my devices that first video is embedded
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Look at the footprints opossum tracks show 5 thinner "fingers"
Groundhogs are more like a smaller dog 4 fingers up front 5 in the rear
Groundhogs kinda hop when the move, opossums kinda waddle
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the very first page in this thread has an embedded video . But I pasted the same type link here but it’s a link only At least on my devices that first video is embedded
I don't see an embedded video on any of my devices, phone, tablet, or laptop, all different browsers. I only see a hyperlink to your video.
-AJ