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The yellow-bellied marmot (Marmota flaviventer), also known as the rock chuck, is a large, stout-bodied ground squirrel in the marmot genus. [2] It is one of fourteen species of marmots, and is native to mountainous and semi-arid regions of southwestern Canada and western United States, including the Rocky Mountains, Sierra Nevada, and the Great Basin, often (but not exclusively) living above ...
Marmots typically live in burrows (often within rockpiles, particularly in the case of the yellow-bellied marmot), and hibernate there through the winter. Most marmots are highly social and use loud whistles to communicate with one another, especially when alarmed.
Stormy is a yellow-bellied marmot, a member of the squirrel family. [1] He is one of the few famous groundhogs west of the Mississippi. [2] Stormy is trotted out once a year to check for his shadow and make a weather prediction. [3] [4] Concrete Driveway in Colorado claims to rely on Stormy's forecasts to prepare their fleet. [5]
FILE - Flatiron Freddy, a stuffed yellow-bellied marmot, is seen during the annual Groundhog Day Celebration at Chautauqua Park in Boulder on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023.
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Squirrels are generally small animals, ranging in size from the African pygmy squirrel and least pygmy squirrel at 10–14 cm (3.9–5.5 in) in total length and just 12–26 g (0.42–0.92 oz) in weight, [8] [9] to the Bhutan giant flying squirrel at up to 1.27 m (4 ft 2 in) in total length, [10] and several marmot species, which can weigh 8 kg ...
My guided group and I enjoyed watching yellow-bellied marmots frolic on the rocks near the lake and picnicking in the nearby wildflower carpeted valley. DepositPhotos.com Conclusion
Kenneth Barclay Armitage started a study of yellow-bellied marmots in 1962 [16] [17] and it has been continued by Daniel T. Blumstein. [18] [19] [20] It is also home to one of the longest-running records of flowering phenology in North America, started in 1973 and continued to the present by David Inouye [21] and his collaborators.