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Watching their shadows
COMPILED BY R. KRITHIKA
PHOTO: AP
GROUNDHOG PREDICTION: Punxsutawney Phil.
Among the more famous weather-predicting groundhogs like Gen. Beauregard Lee (Georgia), Sir Walter Wally (North Carolina), Punxsutawney Phil (Pennsylvania), Woody stands out. Why? She's female and she scored six out of eight in predicting when spring will arrive. Richard Grant, executive director of the Howell Conference and Nature Center, told news agency AP that her success lay in her stomach. Groundhogs stuff themselves before winter but don't eat during the cold spell. Also, said Grant, being a female makes a difference. "Female groundhogs have a whole lot more responsibility, including motherhood." But there are those who swear by the males. Lee, Wally and Phil predict the arrival of spring based on their shadow (no shadow means an early spring) and John Griffiths, a member of the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club's Inner Circle and one of Phil's co-handlers told AP, "As far as we're concerned, there is only one true seer of seers."
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