How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? A traditional, if nonsensical, response to the question is: [A] woodchuck would chuck all the wood he could chuck, If a woodchuck could chuck wood![5] A 1957 Associated Press piece refers to the question as a riddle which beats the Sphinx, since its still unanswered.[6] A more concrete answer was published by the Associated Press in 1988, which reported that a New York fish and wildlife technician named Richard Thomas had calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25–30 foot long woodchuck burrow, and had determined that if the woodchuck had moved an equivalent volume of wood, it could move about 700 pounds on a good day, with the wind at his back.[7] Another study, which considered chuck to be the opposite of upchucking, determined that a woodchuck could ingest 361.9237001 cubic centimeters of wood per day.[8]
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