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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
(12,097 posts)1. It looks like a boar
Leghorn21
(13,701 posts)2. That's an adorable opossum, e!!
Well, according to moi, it is!!
questionseverything
(10,021 posts)4. I agree
elleng
(135,637 posts)5. MERCI!!!
Now I know what to call it, if it shows up again, 21.
dpibel
(3,228 posts)7. I second that ID n/t
hlthe2b
(105,916 posts)13. Yup.. O'possum
Arkansas Granny
(31,789 posts)14. I don't know about adorable, but it does look like a possum.
Leghorn21
(13,701 posts)15. Awww, but look at those eyes, Granny!
I melt!!
Arkansas Granny
(31,789 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
(135,637 posts)6. LARGE house cat.
Quakerfriend
(5,606 posts)8. Hi Ellen 😃
At first, I would say wild boar.
But, depending on how the photo was taken, perhaps an opossum?.
😆
elleng
(135,637 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
(135,637 posts)10. LOLOLOLOL!
Ocelot II
(120,110 posts)11. Opossum.
Wicked Blue
(6,545 posts)16. TFG
without pants
elleng
(135,637 posts)17. LOLOLOLOL!
OxQQme
(2,550 posts)18. Pink Floyd concert
Lord Ludd
(585 posts)20. A dark, out-of-focus photo
marble falls
(61,858 posts)21. Sure looks like a feral sow to me.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,735 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
(60,568 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.