The Dutch Water Authorities (UwV) caught considerably more muskrats and coypus last year. They tracked down over 65,000 ...

While out photographing the other day, I noticed something small, round and brown at the edge of the open water. A muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus) had climbed out of the water and was enjoying the ...

According to the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), the entrances to muskrat dens are located between 6 and 12 inches beneath the surface of a body of water, and the den itself is ...

This winter has been a bit strange in the northland where I reside. Not much snow but enough cold temperatures to start freezing the lakes. The small lakes and ponds freeze up tight right away, ...

I don't imagine the muskrat realizes its tunneling has destroyed the very dam that held back the water that created the pond it called home. It moves on to a new location (if it can find one ...