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The Side-Hill Gouger

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The Side-Hill Gouger

storknurse  (View posts) Posted: 8 Sep 2004 5:25PM GMT
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My father insisted that these lived in the wilds of Maine and loved to tells us about them.

There are two types of side-hills. There's the left-side-hill gouger and the right-side-hill gouger. Each has legs longer on one side than the other from going around the mountain the same way all the time. They have long claws to help them dig into the hillside as they go around and around the same way. They never come down on the flatland because they are lopsided. The only way you can catch them is get them down on a piece of flat ground, because they can't run on flat ground.

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storknurse 8 Sep 2004 5:25PM GMT 
Mary Stewart 8 Jul 2006 1:29AM GMT 
storknurse 9 Jul 2006 1:48PM GMT 
   

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