The Muskrat

The Muskrat is a friend of the Moomins, and is a philosopher. He makes an appearance in the books Comet in Moominland and Finn Family Moomintroll.

Appearance
The Muskrat is mostly gray, but his face and the tip of his tail is black. In addition, he has a large mustache. The Muskrat is roughly the same size as the Hemulens.

Character
The Muskrat is very solemn and serious in nature. He runs along the Moominvalley to declare a mass that falls all over the disaster and is otherwise a very pessimist. He wants to live as a hermit, because Moominhouse happens to him in all kinds of absurd and ridiculous situations are the philosopher's self-esteem too much. These attempts does not seem to be any good.

History
The Muskrat ended up meeting the Moomins on the rainy evening, when the Moominpappa had received over the river bridge, ready to go. Moominpappa was a breach of constructing a bridge in a nice column by the Muskrat and the philosopher was a stranger. The Muskrat went to the Moomin house to live in during the evening and explained how big the space is, using the detector, including Moominmamma's bakery biscuits.

The next day, toured the Moominvalley, the Muskrat, and told all comers in that disaster was coming and everyone believed, as had been raining the previous night in addition to water "from space landing in soot." A few days later, when Moomin and Sniff (also Little My in the film) came back from the observatory, with new friends, the Muskrat went with the Moomins to the cave, which acted as a kind of bomb protection. The book Finn Family Moomintroll, the Muskrat goes to live in that that same cave.