Is This a Gopher?
Apr 8, 2016 11:15:31 #
Took this yesterday. Think it is a gopher. First one I have seen this close.
Apr 8, 2016 11:18:17 #
Apr 8, 2016 11:21:15 #
Apr 8, 2016 11:30:50 #
Vole?
from Wikipedia...
A vole is a small rodent resembling a mouse but with a stouter body, a shorter, hairy tail, a slightly rounder head, smaller ears and eyes, and differently formed molars. There are approximately 155 species of voles.
I take it you didn't check its molars. :-D
BC
from Wikipedia...
A vole is a small rodent resembling a mouse but with a stouter body, a shorter, hairy tail, a slightly rounder head, smaller ears and eyes, and differently formed molars. There are approximately 155 species of voles.
I take it you didn't check its molars. :-D
BC
Apr 8, 2016 11:36:47 #
Apr 8, 2016 11:41:31 #
Not a groundhog, for sure...
Groundhogs are just ground burrowing rodents of the squirrel family.
BC
Groundhogs are just ground burrowing rodents of the squirrel family.
BC
groundhog
mama and baby
Apr 8, 2016 11:45:46 #
It is defiantly a rodent of some kind. The hairless tail makes it look like a rat of some kind. I'm thinking it is small, and could be a young something. Good luck in finding out. Is there water near where it was found? I'm thinking maybe a baby nutria rat. We have many of these in Louisiana, they live very close to the swamps, and do a lot of damage to our levees.
Or it could be a muskrat. My money is on the nutria.
B
Or it could be a muskrat. My money is on the nutria.
B
Apr 8, 2016 11:47:05 #
Apr 8, 2016 11:59:43 #
Mile wrote:
Took this yesterday. Think it is a gopher. First one I have seen this close.
I was fascinated by that picture Mile. Could not resist doing a search online. Those ears are quite distinctive. Came up with the possibility of it being a Northern Pocket Gopher.
Google Images:
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=northern+pocket+gopher&safe=active&biw=1600&bih=791&tbm=isch&imgil=YdvSWQwcaA3WkM%253A%253BxzsTA73WU6E7TM%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fcanadianbiodiversity.mcgill.ca%25252Fenglish%25252Fspecies%25252Fmammals%25252Fmammalpages%25252Ftho_tal.htm&source=iu&pf=m&fir=YdvSWQwcaA3WkM%253A%252CxzsTA73WU6E7TM%252C_&usg=__IMN626FYS11rJdLYSh8LZg3Y6bY%3D&ved=0ahUKEwjF7Iafs__LAhVM1xQKHSyDBEQQyjcIbg&ei=FdQHV4WOEcyuU6yGkqAE#imgdii=qquKPNg6hkd_6M%3A%3BqquKPNg6hkd_6M%3A%3BC0Izg4k1e-3LGM%3A&imgrc=qquKPNg6hkd_6M%3A
https://www.nps.gov/mora/learn/nature/rodents.htm
I don't know about the range of this rodent but it looks like a close match.
Good shot btw !
david
Apr 8, 2016 12:01:17 #
CAS1951 wrote:
Pocket gophers have hairless tails, I suspect this is what it is.
Snap! :P
Apr 8, 2016 12:12:46 #
Thanks to all that looked. I think maybe a pocket gopher too. It is near the ocean. There are lots of little mounds around. At first I thought vole, but with the input here I looked at the info and looks like a close match. No!! no!! didn't pick it up to check it out. LOL!! I'm brave but not that brave.
Apr 8, 2016 13:03:46 #
I looked up Vole, muskrat, nutria and pocket gopher; they all have black tails, has to be something else. I don't know either.
Apr 8, 2016 13:20:08 #
tramsey wrote:
I looked up Vole, muskrat, nutria and pocket gopher; they all have black tails, has to be something else. I don't know either.
Not all pocket gophers have black tails. We have them here, and I've yet to see one with a black tail--perhaps it's regional (different types of gophers).
Apr 8, 2016 13:21:30 #
Apr 8, 2016 14:25:42 #
bearcat wrote:
Not a groundhog, for sure...
Groundhogs are just ground burrowing rodents of the squirrel family.
BC
Groundhogs are just ground burrowing rodents of the squirrel family.
BC
You're right--wrong tail. My bad.
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