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How much wood WOULD a woodchuck chuck... if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

 
Kword

Asked by Kword at 5:05 PM on Jul. 9, 2011 in Parenting Debate

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  • "About 700 pounds. Compared to beavers, groundhogs/woodchucks are not adept at moving timber, although some will chew wood. (At Cornell, woodchucks that gnaw their wooden nest boxes are given scraps of 2-by-4 lumber.) A wildlife biologist once measured the inside volume of a typical woodchuck burrow and estimated that -- if wood filled the hole instead of dirt -- the industrious animal would have chucked about 700 pounds' worth." (http://www.news.cornell.edu/chronicle/96/2.1.96/facts.html)
    DragonRiderMD

    Answer by DragonRiderMD at 5:21 PM on Jul. 9, 2011

  • The wood he would chuck is as much as a wood chuck could chuck wood :)
    hellokittykat

    Answer by hellokittykat at 5:09 PM on Jul. 9, 2011

  • bowing downyou got me there .. i was about to put on my thinking cap tsk-
    gwen20

    Answer by gwen20 at 5:07 PM on Jul. 9, 2011

  • As much as he's little heart desires.
    mommy_of_two388

    Answer by mommy_of_two388 at 5:07 PM on Jul. 9, 2011

  • I agree with mommy if two.
    louise2

    Answer by louise2 at 5:15 PM on Jul. 9, 2011

  • It depends....are their taxes to be paid on the wood? What about government regulations on how much wood can be consumed in a given period of time?
    frogdawg

    Answer by frogdawg at 5:21 PM on Jul. 9, 2011

  • Hey! You woodchucks! Stop chucking my wood!!!!
    KateDinVA

    Answer by KateDinVA at 5:57 PM on Jul. 9, 2011

  • 4.73 times their body weight per day.
    Dr.Donna

    Answer by Dr.Donna at 6:04 PM on Jul. 9, 2011

  • The woodchuck would live on a non-governed island free from any and all wood tax, but the beavers on that island only allow the woodchuck to barter 4 rick of wood per woodchuck family per day.
    Kword

    Comment by Kword (original poster) at 5:24 PM on Jul. 9, 2011

  • DragonRiderMD, good point, however you have not taken into account the beaver's Totalitarian hold over the woodchuck community.
    Kword

    Comment by Kword (original poster) at 5:25 PM on Jul. 9, 2011

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