Also take into consideration where you found the tomato. If it was still on the vine, it most likely wasn't a squirrel. In my experience, the first thing a squirrel will try to do is pull the tomato off of the vine. This isn't 100% the case, but almost (if the tomato is too big to pull off the vine, sometimes they eat it on the vine). A squirrel also leaves three teeth marks in a tomato (have a unique bite, two at the top and one at the bottom). Obviously, your tomato is too far gone to identify the teeth marks.
Rats eat tomatoes on the vine (rather than pull the tomato off) and have a smaller bite than a squirrel. I have no experience with groundhogs or other members of the rodent family.
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