A Colorado zoo's field team was in for a surprise when they unpacked their truck and found that a wild marmot had hitched a ...

Staff from the Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance had just returned from a field project near Minturn, Colorado, when they ...

“Our Field Conservation team got quite the surprise: a wild marmot hitched a ride in the wheel well of a field truck and made ...

Following decades of habitat destruction by humans and animal predation, the V.I. marmot population had been reduced to just 30 individuals by 2003, according to the Vancouver Island Marmot ...

The Vancouver Island marmot once plummeted to a wild population below 30. But a band of devoted conservationists brought it back. ... They had only been able to locate 22 animals.

A Marmot Case Study Yellow-bellied marmots are large ground squirrels closely related to groundhogs. Our research group has been studying these marmots in Colorado at the Rocky Mountain Biological ...

Animals A couple ate raw marmot believed to have health benefits. Then, they died of the plague. A couple in Mongolia recently contracted septicemic plague and died after eating raw marmot meat, ...

Animals Marmot hitchhikes to Canada, then catches a cargo flight home to Colorado. The Greenwood Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Longmont says drivers visiting the mountains should be aware of ...

Meet Austria’s young marmot whisperer. Eight-year-old Matteo Walch’s friendship with a clan of Alpine animals has spanned more than half his lifetime.“When we come, they run straight to him ...

A Himalayan marmot. (Credit: Yuanqing Tao) How do animals live in the cold, oxygen-starved environments of the high mountains? Himalayan marmots — beaver-ish rodents of unusual size — may have an ...