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Muskrat at Samuel Smith

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Rotarran

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on: March 19, 2013, 09:44:43 PM
Took some distant pics of what I thought was the same mink I photographed about 1 week ago but when I looked at the pics at home, it turned out that it was a muskrat all along.  Had I known at the time, I would have tried to get closer and taken better pics.



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Reply #1 on: March 22, 2013, 08:16:07 AM
:) Awww, very neat.  I haven't seen a Muskrat for ages!
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Reply #2 on: April 03, 2013, 01:33:42 AM
Correction, I believe this to be a Nutria.  Muskrats are smaller and less stocky.
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Reply #3 on: April 03, 2013, 07:34:43 AM
It looks like a muskrat to me. According to the Wikipedia map Nutrias don't occur in Ontario, but they are introduced in SE United States and NW United States and southern BC.
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Reply #4 on: April 03, 2013, 08:47:10 AM
Sorry I should have checked the range first.  

Is this also a Muskrat?  I was confused because they look like two different animals...the stockiness of the above animal seems to vary from the smaller creature in this pic:
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Reply #5 on: April 03, 2013, 05:07:32 PM
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It looks like a muskrat to me. According to the Wikipedia map Nutrias don't occur in Ontario, but they are introduced in SE United States and NW United States and southern BC.


yes definitely not a Nutrias....  way too far north and  would be alot bigger than muskrat ... but I can see from the second shot how you could be fooled..sort of has the pose of one
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