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Old June 9, 2018   #38
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Originally Posted by JRinPA View Post
They have poor close up vision but see movement at distance just fine. You can imitate a stump at 10 yards and they will leave their hole to feed, but they will see you walk across an open field 400 yards away and make a beeline for that same hole. When they are spooked but think they are still hidden, they let out a shrill whistle, sort of a like a mega version of chipmunk's chirp. Hence, sometimes they are called whistlepig instead of groundhog.
Not all of them.
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