Animals / Mammal

Groundhog

Marmota monax · Sciuridae

The groundhog, also known as the woodchuck, is a rodent of the family Sciuridae, belonging to the group of large ground squirrels known as marmots. A lowland creature of North America, it is found through much of the Eastern United States, across Canada and into Alaska. It was given its scientific name as Mus monax by Carl Linnaeus in 1758, based on a description of the animal by George Edwards, published in 1743.

Where the Groundhog lives

Recorded in United States of America and Canada (North America).

Most records fall in Ontario, Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, Québec and North Carolina.

See the Groundhog’s range on the globe

Conservation status

Least concern (LC). Not at risk: it is doing well in the wild. Categories are the IUCN Red List as republished by GBIF.

Sources

The range is a density of 48,453 georeferenced GBIF records, not an expert-drawn map. Description from Wikipedia.