The new friend added to The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh was Gopher. The whistling, dynamite-loving animal is the only character not included in the original books. According to Ranker ...

Disney first began licensing Pooh in 1961, dropping the original hyphens and introducing new characters, like Gopher, who first appeared in Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree. In 2001 ...

and their sheer size led some researchers to pooh-pooh the idea that wee gophers could ever create such vast earthen citadels. Now, a study analyzing the interplay between gopher and ground ...

Perhaps, scientists surmised, the gophers built up to escape drowning. But the mounds are 8 feet (2.5 meters) tall and 30 feet (9 m) wide, and their sheer size led some researchers to pooh-pooh ...