They probably got the name from the early Colonists, who associated groundhogs with woodpiles, which would have been good places for them to burrow. … Groundhogs make a shrill whistling sound as an alarm call.

What do you call a baby woodchuck?

Pregnancy goes by fast for them. Groundhog mating season is in the early spring and, after only a month-long pregnancy, mother groundhogs typically give birth to a litter of two to six blind, hairless babies. Young groundhogs are called kits, pups, or sometimes chucklings.

Do groundhogs purr?

Vocalizations include “purrs”, “grunts”, “chucks”, and a shrill “whistle” given in alarm contexts (thus the colloquial names siffleur, French for whistler, and whistle-pig).