How much wood could a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could

How much wood could a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood?

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Solution

According to a Cornell publication, the answer is ~700 pounds. Compared to beavers, groundhogs/woodchucks are not adept at moving timber, although some will chew wood. (At Cornell, woodchucks that gnaw their wooden nest boxes are given scraps of 2-by-4 lumber.) A wildlife biologist once measured the inside volume of a typical woodchuck burrow and estimated that -- if wood filled the hole instead of dirt -- the industrious animal would have chucked about 700 pounds\' worth.