But how exactly did the groundhog become the deciding factor ... "Bull in a China shop," "Elephant in the room," "All bark and no bite," just to name a few. Even crows have made their way ...

According to the Associated Press, Mayor Jonathan Freund let a handler hold a groundhog named Jimmy next to his face. Jimmy proceeded to bite down on Freund's ear: Freund isn't the only mayor who ...

It also doesn't help that its name is a phonetic version of a native Lenape word meaning "place of the sandflies," which are swarming gnats that bite. The reason a groundhog — a species of ...