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Related: About this forumAnyone know what this is?
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
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pandr32
(12,827 posts)1. It looks like a boar
Leghorn21
(13,839 posts)2. That's an adorable opossum, e!!
Well, according to moi, it is!!
questionseverything
(10,657 posts)4. I agree

elleng
(139,122 posts)5. MERCI!!!
Now I know what to call it, if it shows up again, 21.
dpibel
(3,573 posts)7. I second that ID n/t
hlthe2b
(109,054 posts)13. Yup.. O'possum
Arkansas Granny
(31,978 posts)14. I don't know about adorable, but it does look like a possum.
Leghorn21
(13,839 posts)15. Awww, but look at those eyes, Granny!

I melt!!

Arkansas Granny
(31,978 posts)19. I've encountered those eyes too many times on my back porch.
Not adorable in my book.
Boxerfan
(2,550 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
(139,122 posts)6. LARGE house cat.
Quakerfriend
(5,802 posts)8. Hi Ellen 😃
At first, I would say wild boar.
But, depending on how the photo was taken, perhaps an opossum?.
😆
elleng
(139,122 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
(4,653 posts)9. It's the newly discovered
Wild Boar Nebula.
elleng
(139,122 posts)10. LOLOLOLOL!
Ocelot II
(124,135 posts)11. Opossum.
Wicked Blue
(7,817 posts)16. TFG
without pants
elleng
(139,122 posts)17. LOLOLOLOL!
OxQQme
(2,550 posts)18. Pink Floyd concert
Lord Ludd
(585 posts)20. A dark, out-of-focus photo

marble falls
(64,664 posts)21. Sure looks like a feral sow to me.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(24,054 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
(64,209 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.