| Alpine marmots are large ground-dwelling squirrels living in mountain open meadows. |
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| Squirrels range in size from the mouse-sized African pygmy squirrel to the robust marmots and woodchucks. |
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| Presumably it arose from hoary marmots of the mainland that reached what is now Vancouver Island during the second last glaciation. |
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| Under ordinary circumstances hoary marmots are usually seen on the top of boulder piles. |
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| Little is known about the actual mating behavior of hoary marmots because most matings occur inside burrows. |
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| Today hoary marmots are protected from being hunted in the Yukon, except by First Nations people. |
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| Their yaks share these high, sunny pastures with blue sheep and plump marmots. |
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| Some of these destructive species include beavers, muskrats, elk, deer, voles, marmots, prairie dogs and geese. |
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| Though the pushing and grappling can be quite vigorous, marmots have only to give a sharp yelp to end the bout. |
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| Watch for small mammals such as chickarees, marmots, and rock and golden-mantled ground squirrels. |
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| Since hoary marmots reproduce biennially, half the females are fertile and half nonfertile during any given year. |
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| If your prime target is marmots or groundhogs, there's even less justification for scopes above 16x because the target is larger. |
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| The eagles were special, the livestock more ordinary but there was also the marmots the izards and the lizards. |
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| Stop along this byway to hike across broad plateaus and to admire Rocky Mountain goats, moose, black bears, grizzly bears, marmots, and mule deer. |
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| This last includes chipmunks, gophers, marmots, and prairie dogs. |
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| The Rodentia also includes beavers, muskrats, porcupines, woodchucks, chipmunks, squirrels, prairie dogs, marmots, chinchillas, voles, lemmings, and many others. |
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| Unlike other marmots, woodchucks don't live in big colonies underground. |
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| During summer you'll find elk feeding in open meadows, mule deer trying to keep cool on wind swept ridges and hoary marmots sunning themselves on rocky outcroppings. |
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| The name Whistler was used by these early settlers because of the shrill whistling sound made by the western hoary marmots who live among the rocks. |
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| Compared to burrows constructed by Arctic foxes, badgers, marmots and corsac foxes, red fox dens are not overly complex. |
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| In the case of marmots, resident males do not appear to ever lose their territories and always win encounters with invading males. |
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| Sometimes, the den is the appropriated burrow of smaller animals such as foxes, badgers or marmots. |
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| Black bears, brown bears, caribou, hoary marmots, and brown lemmings died within or were dragged into On Your Knees Cave in the millennia preceding the last glacial maximum. |
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| At the same time, hotter temperatures are forcing mountain goats, hoary marmots, and other high-altitude species farther up mountain peaks with little ground left to go. |
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