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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
(13,593 posts)1. It looks like a boar
Leghorn21
(13,981 posts)2. That's an adorable opossum, e!!
Well, according to moi, it is!!
questionseverything
(11,397 posts)4. I agree
elleng
(141,341 posts)5. MERCI!!!
Now I know what to call it, if it shows up again, 21.
dpibel
(3,705 posts)7. I second that ID n/t
hlthe2b
(111,962 posts)13. Yup.. O'possum
Arkansas Granny
(32,205 posts)14. I don't know about adorable, but it does look like a possum.
Leghorn21
(13,981 posts)15. Awww, but look at those eyes, Granny!

I melt!!
Arkansas Granny
(32,205 posts)19. I've encountered those eyes too many times on my back porch.
Not adorable in my book.
Boxerfan
(2,553 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
(141,341 posts)6. LARGE house cat.
Quakerfriend
(5,882 posts)8. Hi Ellen 😃
At first, I would say wild boar.
But, depending on how the photo was taken, perhaps an opossum?.
😆
elleng
(141,341 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
(141,341 posts)10. LOLOLOLOL!
Ocelot II
(128,032 posts)11. Opossum.
Wicked Blue
(8,327 posts)16. TFG
without pants
elleng
(141,341 posts)17. LOLOLOLOL!
OxQQme
(2,550 posts)18. Pink Floyd concert
Lord Ludd
(585 posts)20. A dark, out-of-focus photo
marble falls
(69,028 posts)21. Sure looks like a feral sow to me.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(24,459 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
(67,298 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.