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Muskrat love at Jamaica Pond

By adamg on Sat, 05/06/2017 - 6:08pm
Otter in Jamaica Pond

Moby Carp has company: Jameson Brown was walking around Jamaica Pond today when he looked down and spotted this furry critter cruising towards shore.

Jameson said it appeared to be an otter - it seemed too small for a beaver and its home "seemed more otter-like too, a hole more than a lodge."

But local wildlife aficionado Jef Taylor says, no, that's a muskrat.

Neighborhoods: 
Jamaica Plain
Free tagging: 
Wildlife
Muskrats
Jamaica Pond


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Comments

By adamg on Sat, 05/06/2017 - 6:16pm.

After all, we're not Germany, so we don't have any otterbahns.

OK, I'll see myself out ...

By adamg on Sat, 05/06/2017 - 7:05pm.

I've updated the post because Jef Taylor, who knows more about the local fauna than most people, says the critter is a muskrat, not an otter.

By Lorianne on Sat, 05/06/2017 - 6:51pm.

Looks like a muskrat to me, as the tail is too thin for either a beaver or otter.

(And for readers too young to get the allusion in the subject heading, here you go.)

By adamg on Sat, 05/06/2017 - 7:05pm.

Confirmation comes in the form of the tweet I've linked to by somebody who knows these things.

By essteess on Mon, 05/08/2017 - 5:33pm.

Sorry, one of those songs I pretty much detested when it first came out in the daze of my yoot, and time has not much softened my contempt.
But in the Shameful Confessions Department, I will admit that I actually watched (out of morbid fascination or boredom, I guess) bits of their short-lived TV variety show. I even recall them doing "Muskrat Love," and at one point in the song there was a sequence that showed C&T in muskrat costumes cavorting with each other. I think that was pretty much it for me.

I don't hold muskrats responsible, though.

By Elmer on Sat, 05/06/2017 - 9:20pm.

By lurchie on Sun, 05/07/2017 - 10:02pm.

Adam gets so excited about anything animal related. It renews my faith in humanity. :)