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Critter heading toward shadows (and beach,) after sunset.
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Anyone know what this is? (Original Post)
elleng
Aug 2021
OP
It looks like an aurochs, thought to have gone extinct hundreds of years ago.
JustABozoOnThisBus
Aug 2021
#22
pandr32
(12,170 posts)1. It looks like a boar
Leghorn21
(13,737 posts)2. That's an adorable opossum, e!!
Well, according to moi, it is!!
questionseverything
(10,149 posts)4. I agree
elleng
(136,071 posts)5. MERCI!!!
Now I know what to call it, if it shows up again, 21.
dpibel
(3,325 posts)7. I second that ID n/t
hlthe2b
(106,359 posts)13. Yup.. O'possum
Arkansas Granny
(31,827 posts)14. I don't know about adorable, but it does look like a possum.
Leghorn21
(13,737 posts)15. Awww, but look at those eyes, Granny!
I melt!!
Arkansas Granny
(31,827 posts)19. I've encountered those eyes too many times on my back porch.
Not adorable in my book.
Boxerfan
(2,533 posts)3. Possum
About the size of a house cat?
Tail looks wrong for a boar-let us know how big it was that would help.
elleng
(136,071 posts)6. LARGE house cat.
Quakerfriend
(5,655 posts)8. Hi Ellen 😃
At first, I would say wild boar.
But, depending on how the photo was taken, perhaps an opossum?.
😆
elleng
(136,071 posts)12. I'm voting for opossum,
don't wanna think there's a WILD BOAR wandering around my yard!
Taken outside, ##? yards away, heading down hill toward beach (and major river,) southern MD.
lordsummerisle
(4,652 posts)9. It's the newly discovered
Wild Boar Nebula.
elleng
(136,071 posts)10. LOLOLOLOL!
Ocelot II
(120,858 posts)11. Opossum.
Wicked Blue
(6,655 posts)16. TFG
without pants
elleng
(136,071 posts)17. LOLOLOLOL!
OxQQme
(2,550 posts)18. Pink Floyd concert
Lord Ludd
(585 posts)20. A dark, out-of-focus photo
marble falls
(62,063 posts)21. Sure looks like a feral sow to me.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,763 posts)22. It looks like an aurochs, thought to have gone extinct hundreds of years ago.
This could be quite a discovery!
Or a pig?
mahatmakanejeeves
(60,949 posts)23. Refugee from above the Mason-Dixon Line?
Thu Aug 19, 2021: A kangaroo is on the loose in rural Pennsylvania and no one knows where it came from
Yeah, maybe not.