How much wood can a woodchuck chuck?

Well, Environmental Club had a good time learning about groundhogs today! Groundhogs are AKA (also known as) woodchucks, whistle pigs, land beavers, marmots, and mouse bears!  A friend of mine sent me this link from NWF (National Wildlife Federation) with some really cool facts about these true hibernators!

I learned so much from this website that I did not know before today. For instance, a woodchuck’s body temperature goes from 99-37 degrees Fahrenheit when it hibernates! A human’s normal body temperature is 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit. If our temperature drops below 70 degrees, we would die!

After you go on the NWF website, please post a new fact or two in a comment below. Thanks!

PS. Do groundhogs really eat wood???

baby woodchuck

Isn’t this baby groundhog the cutest?

17 thoughts on “How much wood can a woodchuck chuck?

  • March 8, 2011 at 2:21 pm
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    Hi ms.lenhan i am sorry for what i did yesterday and i am reallly sooorrrryyy i would really love if i could come back to club but i think that would happen.

    Sorrry

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  • February 3, 2011 at 11:23 am
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    Dear,ms.lenahan
    i had learned that groundhogs are among the few animals that are hibernatures,while hibernating a woodchuck`s body can drop from 99 degrees to as low as 37 degrees.the heart beating rate is 80 beats per minutes to 5.A wood chuck will lose no more than a fourth of it`s body weight.A groundhog may pack in more than a pound of a vegetation.Also the rodents have a top speed of 8 miles per hour,when a hungry fox may hit only 25 miles per hour.The animals dig as many as 6 feet deep!

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  • February 3, 2011 at 11:23 am
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    What I learned about a woodchuck is it is like a mouse bear when it is sitting right side up, it looks like a minature bear. Its body temperature can drop from 99-37 degrees.

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  • February 3, 2011 at 11:18 am
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    I learned that if the Ground hog see it’s shadow theres going to 6 more weeks of winter, but if he doesn’t sees it shadow it’s going to be spring.When the Ground hog is hibernating it body heat temater can drop from 99 degriees as low as 37.

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  • February 3, 2011 at 11:17 am
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    woodchucks lower there breathing from 16 breaths to as few as 2 breaths. There body tem can drop from 99 digrees to as low as 37 digrees.There heart rate can drop when they are hibernating in the cold days. they sleep for 150 days they are true hibernaters.

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  • February 3, 2011 at 11:14 am
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    I knowthat a groundhogs can predict weather and that they are true hibernate.And that they are known as a minature bear,or a mouse bear.A groundhog`s teeth can grow an about a week.And a groundhog was a weather prognosticator in 1886.

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  • February 3, 2011 at 11:10 am
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    I learn that body temperature can drop from about 99 degrees to as low as 37.I also learn that the groundhogs heart rate is 80 beats per minute to 5 and 16 breaths per minute to as few as 2.they are true hibernators.

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  • February 3, 2011 at 11:09 am
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    the heart can beat 80 beats per min to 5

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  • February 3, 2011 at 11:04 am
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    I know that a groundhog’s heartbeats can go from 80 beats per minute to 5.
    A groundhog’s teeth can also grow about a sixteenth of an inch each week. It can also slow its breaths from 16 breaths per minute to as few as 2.

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  • February 3, 2011 at 11:04 am
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    What I know about woodchucks are they are also called mouse bears because they look like a miniature bear when sitting upright.
    Also female woodchucks are born in early April

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  • February 3, 2011 at 11:03 am
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    What i know about groundhogs is that groundhogs are among the few animals that are true hibernators fattening up in the warm seasons and snoozing for most of three months during the chill times.

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  • February 3, 2011 at 10:59 am
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    The heart rate of hibernating woodchuck slows from about 80 beats per minute.Breathing slows from around sixteen breaths per minute to as few as 2.

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  • February 3, 2011 at 10:57 am
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    The groundhog known as the woodchuck or the mouse bear (because it looks like a miniature bear when sitting upright), first won its reputation as a weather prognosticator in 1886, when the editor of western Pennsylvania’s Punxsutawney Spirit newspaper, one Clymer Freas, published a report that local groundhogs had not seen their shadows that day, signaling an early spring.

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  • February 3, 2011 at 10:56 am
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    A woodchucks heart rate is 80 beats to 5 minutes.Breathing slows from around 16 breathes per minute to as few as 2.

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  • February 3, 2011 at 10:53 am
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    What I know about groundhogs is their heart rate of hibernating slows about 80 heart beats per minute to 5 if they are hibernating.

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  • February 3, 2011 at 10:36 am
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    Yes,We would die if our temperture dropped that much degrees f.

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