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Posted by Jeri Jaynes on Saturday, 9 September 2017
I went to Colorado last week to give a talk at CSU, and I took the weekend to drive...
https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/8aac285e-d838-3df6-b5dd-9f2b52bee569/ss_s.c.-has-first-elk-sighting.html Pretty cool that they are slowly starting to show up there. I wish the ones in PA would...
I was in Big Bend for a couple of nights of bat catching and saw more than 18 mammals...
I saw this little guy in 2006, before I was really deeply into wildlife watching. I saw it at...
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Measurements and location would help.
I have not seen it, but we can estimate, based on the boards. My deck boards are 6 inches wide. If these are the same, then the animal is about the size of a raccoon or cat.
El Chupacabra? An opossum maybe?
If that is in the US, which by the boat registration in another photo in the album, it appears to be, that is probably a Virginia Opossum.
Well, it sure has opossum teeth. https://img0.etsystatic.com/199/0/14174572/il_340x270.1208176916_tigl.jpg
I got a bit more information. It is from near Sonora, in Tuolumne County, California.
Opossum wins. I guess chupacabras are actually opossums.