Is it a big rat? Is it a small beaver? Is it neither? Many residents are often left wondering just creature they see swimming along the Indianapolis canal. And understandably so — they bear a striking ...

On a bike bath that runs alongside Paradise Creek in Moscow, several people stopped to observe a furry brown animal moving effortlessly through the murky, slow-moving water. “It’s a beaver!” one of ...

This time of year, I often see a muskrat gracefully swimming along the surface of our pond with a mouth full of greens. At a certain location, the animal dives down and enters its bank den with a ...

Consider the muskrat. A muskrat can be thought of as a low-rent version of a beaver — they toil but do not build, their tails make no signature slap upon the waters when startled, trapped, their fur ...

Can you close your lips behind your teeth? No, you can't. Because you're not a muskrat. Bet you can't close your ears when you dive underwater either. There's a lot more to the magnificent muskrat ...

Muskrats are common in many of the islands ponds and wetlands. At only two to four pounds they are much smaller than their cousin the beaver which can easily reach 50 pounds. If you see a mammal ...

Muskrats are a large, semi-aquatic animal belonging to the vole or lemming family, not the rat family. The name “musk” comes from scent glands near its tail, that gives off a strong “musky” odor.

The muskrat, a stocky brown rodent the size of a Chihuahua - with a tail like a mouse, teeth like a beaver and an exceptional ability to bounce back from rapid die-offs - has lived for thousands of ...