Quote Originally Posted by Unknown American
This is difficult to question answer. The amount of wood that woodchucks would chuck on a given day varies greatly with the individual woodchuck. According to a Wall Street Journal article, New York State wildlife expert Richard Thomas found that a woodchuck could 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 equal to 700 pounds.

That's some damn good good scientific reasoning my good man. But we also have to factor in the weather; was the day excessively cold, thereby forcing the woodchuck into hybernation? Was the day exceptionally hot, fatiguing the woodchuck?

What region does the woodchuck live in? If it's a semi-arid climate full of pine trees, the wood-chucking could take extra long for the dense pine wood. If the woodchuck lives in a damp west-cost region of the northern United States or southern BC, evergreens would be large and abundant, with soft wood easy to chuck all day.

Has the economy been factored in? An economic depression could be a severe blow to the wood-chucking industry.

Are there large predatory birds and mammals in the region that may detract from the woodchuck's concentration on his work?

Does the woodchuck suffer from chronic depression, anxiety, or perhapse even bi-polar disorder?

Does the woodchuck have a history of a strong work-ethic?

Does the woodchuck eat a balanced diet and excercise regularly?


I've sent this question to some top scientists around the world. It's being worked on by theoretical physicists at NASA, geneticists in the University of Bhangladesh, renouned economists from Stokholm, and evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins. We believe that, with a 60% increase in funding from 7 world governments, minimal support from the UN, and help from the American Psychiatric Association, a conclusive answer should be possilbe by the year 2017.