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In some areas woodchucks are important game animals and are killed regularly for sport, food, or fur. In Kentucky, an estimated 267,500 M. monax were taken annually from 1964 to 1971. [59]: 143 Woodchucks had protected status in the state of Wisconsin [60] until 2017. [61] Woodchuck numbers appear to have decreased in Illinois. [62]
Crepuscular, a classification of animals that are active primarily during twilight, making them similar to nocturnal animals. Diurnality, plant or animal behavior characterized by activity during the day and sleeping at night. Cathemeral, a classification of organisms with sporadic and random intervals of activity during the day or night.
The distinction is not absolute, because crepuscular animals may also be active on a bright moonlit night or on a dull day. Some animals casually described as nocturnal are in fact crepuscular. [2] Special classes of crepuscular behaviour include matutinal, or "matinal", animals active only in the dawn, and vespertine, only in the dusk.
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Animals active during twilight are crepuscular, those active during the night are nocturnal and animals active at sporadic times during both night and day are cathemeral. Plants that open their flowers during the daytime are described as diurnal, while those that bloom during nighttime are nocturnal.
Groundhog, woodchuck, or whistle pig Canada and east of the Mississippi in northern USA Marmota sibirica: Tarbagan marmot, Mongolian marmot, or tarvaga: Siberia Petromarmota: Marmota caligata: Hoary marmot: northwestern North America (Alaska, Yukon, British Columbia, Alberta, Washington, Montana) Marmota flaviventris: Yellow-bellied marmot