You talkin' to me?
Despite my caption and the rather cocky tilt of the head, this guy was not at all aggressive. He just seems that way. :-) Probably a function of how much I was zoomed in on him. I'd describe him as having been very curious and perhaps a more real caption might have been "You got any food?"
"Marmots are large rodents (the heaviest members of the squirrel family) with characteristically short but robust legs, enlarged claws well adapted to digging, stout bodies, and large heads and incisors to quickly process a variety of vegetation.
Marmots typically live in burrows, often within rockpiles, and hibernate there through the winter. Most marmots are highly social and use loud whistles to communicate with one another, especially when alarmed."
You talkin' to me?
Despite my caption and the rather cocky tilt of the head, this guy was not at all aggressive. He just seems that way. :-) Probably a function of how much I was zoomed in on him. I'd describe him as having been very curious and perhaps a more real caption might have been "You got any food?"
"Marmots are large rodents (the heaviest members of the squirrel family) with characteristically short but robust legs, enlarged claws well adapted to digging, stout bodies, and large heads and incisors to quickly process a variety of vegetation.
Marmots typically live in burrows, often within rockpiles, and hibernate there through the winter. Most marmots are highly social and use loud whistles to communicate with one another, especially when alarmed."