Muskrat

Muskrat

We have several locations around the pond where muskrats live.  They tunnel under the bank and enter the water from the tunnel.  It is destructive to the pond because it makes it shallower.  

I was telling my daughter about this and she ask if it was a beaver.  Good question.  I have no shots of beaver.  From what I have seen in pictures, they look very similar while swimming.  I am guessing that the beaver is a larger animal.  They are both rodents but from there they go separate ways on the classifications.  The beaver lives in moving water, makes a dam which causes it to pool.  It lives in the dam in an area called a lodge.  It also enters the water from its home. The muskrat, at least this one, lives in water already pooled.  The muskrat is an omnivore, i.e. it eats both plants and animals.  The beaver is a herbivore, i.e. it eats plants.

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