Mile
Loc: Crescent City Calif
Took this yesterday. Think it is a gopher. First one I have seen this close.
Not a gopher but I don't know what he is. The hairless tail is odd.
Maybe the Slick Tailed Hedge Hog.
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
It looks to me like it could be a baby groundhog.
Not a groundhog, for sure...
Groundhogs are just ground burrowing rodents of the squirrel family.
BC
groundhog
mama and baby
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
Pocket gophers have hairless tails, I suspect this is what it is.
Mile
Loc: Crescent City Calif
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.
I looked up Vole, muskrat, nutria and pocket gopher; they all have black tails, has to be something else. I don't know either.
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).
bearcat wrote:
Not a groundhog, for sure...
Groundhogs are just ground burrowing rodents of the squirrel family.
BC
You're right--wrong tail. My bad.
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