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If you like nature and you like the muskrat, you might want go and look at some streams and safe canals because that's where they like to live. The muskrat and the beaver are from the same family. They walk on four legs like most mammals do. The muskrat has little hairs that are waterproof, and the hair that is called protective guard hair is long and brown. The muskrat has webbed feet for swimming. They burrow in the banks of a river or in marshes. They have families of six in a litter. The muskrat is a lot like the beaver but is a few inches smaller. The muskrat is also brown.
arshes, edges of ponds, lakes, and streams and around cattails, rushes, water lillies, open water.