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The adult muskrat is generally a solitary creature, except when breeding. I have only seen one or two a year, but always the muskrat seen was on its own. That changed yesterday when I watched three of them sitting on a log together eating aquatic weed. Indeed other observers have seen four of them at this same spot. They are undoubtedly youngsters that were born just last year.<\/p>\n

Two muskrat kiddies were sitting on a log eating aquatic weed that they would fetch by individually diving into the water. Each would then return to the log to eat the weed.
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