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Marmot
Fossil range: Late Miocene - Recent

Yellow-bellied Marmot in Yosemite National Park
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Mammalia
Order:Rodentia
Family:Sciuridae
Subfamily:Xerinae
Tribe:Marmotini
Genus:Marmota
Blumenbach, 1779
Species

Marmota baibacina
Marmota bobak
Marmota broweri
Marmota caligata
Marmota camtschatica
Marmota caudata
Marmota flaviventris
Marmota himalayana
Marmota marmota
Marmota menzbieri
Marmota monax
Marmota olympus
Marmota sibirica
Marmota vancouverensis

Marmots are members of the genus Marmota, in the rodent family Sciuridae (squirrels).

Marmots are generally large ground squirrels. Tuve8 Those most often referred to as marmots tend to live in mountainous areas such as the Alps, northern Apennines, Carpathians, Tatra, and Pyrenees in Europe, the Rockies, the Black Hills and the Sierra Nevada in the United States, Northern Canada, Deosai plains in Pakistan and Ladakh in India. However, the groundhog is also properly called a marmot, while the similarly-sized but more social prairie dog is not classified in the genus Marmota but in the related genus Cynomys.

Marmots typically live in burrows, and hibernate there through the winter. Tuve8 Most marmots are highly social, and use loud whistles to communicate with one another, especially when alarmed.

The name marmot comes from French marmotte, from Old French marmotan, marmontaine, from Old Franco-Provençal, from Low Latin mures montani "mountain mouse", from Latin mures monti, from Classical Latin mures alpini "Alps mouse".

Marmots mainly eat greens. They eat many types of grasses, berries, lichens, mosses, roots and flowers.


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