Dear Diary:
A month ago, my husband and I walked out of the Bennett Avenue exit from the A train and saw a crowd of people across Bennett, gazing up. A rocky cliff of Fort Tryon Park is on the west side of Bennett.
The crowd was on the east side. We heard comments like: “Is it a monkey? It doesn't look like a monkey.†After we crossed the street and looked up, we saw the critter in the attached photo: a groundhog.
What's wrong with this picture?
1. Groundhogs are not arboreal.
That's why they are called groundhogs. They don't climb trees.
2. They don't eat leaves, but graze on grasses and insects.
This plump little guy/gal happily munched leaves in a tree, cheerfully breaking the rules of groundhog (or woodchuck) etiquette. Bohemians live in Inwood, and that goes for the animals as well as the humans.
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