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Monax (Móonack) is an Algonquian name of the woodchuck, which means "digger" (cf. Lenape monachgeu). [15] [12]: 300–301 Young groundhogs may be called chucklings. [16]: 66 The etymology of the name woodchuck is unrelated to wood or any sense of chucking. It stems from an Algonquian (possibly Narragansett) name for the animal, wuchak. [17]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 17 January 2025. American English language tongue-twister For the film, see How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck (film). A woodchuck Sawn logs of wood " How much wood would a woodchuck chuck " (sometimes phrased with "could" rather than "would") is an American English -language tongue-twister. The ...
A so-called woodchuck (correctly speaking, a groundhog) would chuck - that is, throw - as much as the woodchuck in question was physically able to chuck, if woodchucks in general had the capability and presumably, the motivation, to chuck wood. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nolan Perry (talk • contribs) 16:23, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
Photographs of trees can be used to determine girth or other measurements if there is a something of known size in the photo to provide a scale. The following information must be known to approximate the measurements: 1) distance of the camera from the tree, 2) distance from the camera to the scale, and 3) size of the object to be used as a scale.
An anatomically accurate image of a marmot was printed and distributed as early as 1605 by Jacopo Ligozzi, who was noted for his images of flora and fauna. The etymology of the term "marmot" is uncertain. It may have arisen from the Gallo-Romance prefix marm-, meaning to mumble or murmur (an example of onomatopoeia).
The yellow-bellied marmot (Marmota flaviventer), also known as the rock chuck, is a large, stout-bodied ground squirrel in the marmot genus. [2] It is one of fourteen species of marmots, and is native to mountainous and semi-arid regions of southwestern Canada and western United States, including the Rocky Mountains, Sierra Nevada, and the Great Basin, often (but not exclusively) living above ...
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