A woodchuck could (and does) chuck around 35 cubic feet of dirt in the course of digging a burrow. An amount equivalent to the weight of the dirt, or 700 pounds.
Answer:The woodchuck is an herbivore preferring tender plants to coarser bark and trees. They do not typically eat hard wood. While woodchucks do not “chuck” wood, they do “chuck” dirt as they build underground burrows. ... Woodchucks do not chuck wood.
Step-by-step explanation:
New York state wildlife expert Richard Thomas found that a woodchuck could (and does) chuck around 35 cubic feet of dirt in the course of digging a burrow. Thomas reasoned that if a woodchuck could chuck wood, he would chuck an amount equivalent to the weight of the dirt, or 700 pounds.