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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 08/29/2009 : 12:24:19 [Permalink]
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Well, these furry-tailed ground rats are baraminologically all squirrel kind, right? I'll bet the scientists at the Creation Museum would confirm this.
I once was lucky enough to just once (I was on the edge of their range) see an Olympic Marmot in my yard where I used to live near Aberdeen, Washington. It was quite hefty and furry, a rather attractive critter. The Olympic Peninsula had been isolated from the rest of the continent by vast glaciers during the last Ice Age, forcing the Olympic Marmot to go its own way as a species.
An Olympic Marmot.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 08/29/2009 : 14:06:57 [Permalink]
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Lot's of marmots around here in the guise of the eastern woodchuck, among other names. They include one that my son-in-law wants to shoot for garden depredations, but my daughter won't let him. It's cute, little guy, she sez. I'm inclined to agree.
Whistle-pig
But I might mistake him for a rabbit, come the first hard frost... 
Something else interesting about them; they put on fat and hibernate whereas squirrels do not. This makes them quite flavorful, and they don't at all taste like chicken.
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Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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World going nuts over a squirrel
