TSG recently came across a social media post mentioning the "Los Gatos Creek Trail Gopher" accompanied by a photo of a large statue of a rodent-ish creature. Since we ride the trail on a regular basis, our curiosity was piqued and a mental note was made to be on the lookout for the oversized "gopher".
As it happened, we spotted it a few days later while waiting at the traffic light at the Camden/San Tomas Expwy Highway 17 off ramp. From afar, it looked more like a bear than a gopher to us.
Unable to find any kind of online documentation of the thing, we resolved to return to the scene to investigate and get a closer look.
Up close, this did not appear to be a gopher. (Gophers have a "rounder" face) More likely it was a stylized ground squirrel, which is very common on the trail. Or maybe it might be someone's idea of a meerkat, in it's oft-depicted surveillance stance, keeping a watchful eye over the scene from the top of the knoll.
2 comments:
Agreed on the "cool" rating.
And agreed, it ain't much of a gopher with that face. The claws do look kind of formidable and maybe suitable for digging? Perhaps it is some kind of rodent chimera.
Agreed that it is cool, and agreed that it is not a gopher. Those claws are maybe made for digging (underground), or maybe just clawing prey. It might be a rodent, but not sure about that. Perhaps a rodent chimera?
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