Thus, any muskrat of the marshland instinctively builds a winterhouse of water weeds but when he migrates to a higher locality, as often hedoes, he provides a winter dwelling by digging a burrow from the bottom of alake or river up into a high bank and there makes a nest which is warmer, dryerand much safer than an exposed lodge on the storm-swept lowland. That is doubtless true, as arule, but its exceptions are quite as significant and much more difficult tounderstand. In the dark tunnel of a lodge Cheokhes would not dareface the bared teeth of a mother muskrat twice his weight but when his nosetells him that she is not at home, he will slip in at risk of his neck to getone of the young.Įvery animal, weare now told, has an inborn behavior pattern (only a different name for"instinct") which not only impels but compels him to act like everyother of his kind under similar circumstances. The only wild enemy then to be fearedis Cheokhes the mink. Whether a matedpair occupies the lodge for a time after the freezeup I have not been able todetermine but Simmo is probably right in saying that no male is permitted toenter a lodge after the young are born. Unlike the solidstructure of a beaver family, a Musquash lodge is a temporary affair, built fora single season if broken open by trappers or washed away by a winter flood,the inmates escape to one of the many burrows which serve as refuges or restingplaces all the year round. The doublepurpose of a lodge is to provide a dry nest where Musquash, the night rover,can sleep by day and where the young may be born in safety. Though theroom serves as a dining hall and sleeping chamber for three or four months, itis always neat and clean, pervaded by a strong odor of musk, which in itsnatural state probably has an antiseptic quality, as oldtime doctorsbelieved. Unlike the beaver, whose lodge is built of sticks, stones and grassliberally mixed with mud which the frost will make iron-hard, Musquash buildshis house of water weeds, mostly, and uses but little mud, depending onfreezing rain and sleet for his "cement." The only entrance is a darktunnel leading from the bottom of lake or river up through the bank and throughthe middle of the lodge to a single living room under the domed top. A typical winter lodge is from four to five feet in diameter at thebase, from two to five feet high, varying with the height of the floods in thelocality, and when finished has the dome shape of an old-fashioned bee skep orhive. In late summer orearly autumn, when northern streams are usually at low ebb, Musquash begins tobuild a winter lodge, which is finished in a leisurely way of no hurry, noworry, growing higher and higher with rising water as if the builder weretrying to make sure of having the upper part of his dwelling above the floodlevel. Plainly he knows how,but still we ask, How does he know? One can only wonder at seeing a marsh-bred muskrat expertlynavigate the first pitch of rough water he has ever seen. When we seeKeeonekh the otter-who is a powerful swimmer, a far-going traveler and the mostplayful of all wild animals-come to a white rapid we expect him to dive underthe turmoil and make his way up in the quiet water near bottom, and then shootmerrily down the pitch for the fun of it which he does because he is born andtrained that way. These"unio" shells-on the outside they are rough and bronze-green in color,on the inside smoother than satin and glowing like a rainbow withmother-of-pearl-are fragile as dainty china, and how Musquash opens withoutbreaking them or even nicking the thin edge is his own secret.
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Not until hehas gathered enough for a meal does he crack open the clams to eat the blobbyflesh, and usually to drop the shells into the water beside his table. Then he dives to the bottom of the lake or river for a singleclam, which he carries to the tussock and goes back for another. If the table happens to be a tussock of grass rising above the marshlevel, he flattens off the top after cutting the grass to give him an outlookon all sides. Invariably, Ithink, his first concern is to select a rock or log or stump to serve as atable. Thisdining-at-table habit is more plainly evident when Musquash finds a bed offresh-water clams, for which tasteless food he has a liking. An early concept for Peedy was made but changed, this includes Peedy's color changed to purple, dumb personality, different foot color and weird foot shapes.So one learnedfor the first time that Musquash seldom eats his food where he finds it.He also dislikes many people in the universe like Talking Tom, ITV, Carlton, etc.In the first video by SF08, he had other brothers called PAP Video, Claude, Bugs Bunny and Oscar.MaxAlert (current version, Peedy's brother).His old parents died in an unknown year, and his new dad is Bonzi, who grounds Peedy. His parents are Hearty and Angrybirdman03's MaxAlert. Peedy was born in 2005, making him 13 in 2018.