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Originally Posted by Worth1
A groundhog is a marmot as well as the prairie dog and other related ground squirrels.
It is thought that this is where the original black death came from in areas of Asia from fleas on marmots ending up on rats and then people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yersinia_pestis
Worth |
Not quite.
A ground hog is in the marmot genus, as
Groundhog, woodchuck, or whistlepig,
M. monax found in most of North America, but prairie dogs are in the family
Prairie dogs (genus
Cynomys), which has 5 species.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prairie_dog