The Vancouver Island marmot pages: home of Canada's most endangered animal ...
Site about Groundhogs (Woodchucks) that is educational and entertaining. Includes information, photos, recordings, animations, postcards, and more.
An internet resource about marmots and groundhogs.
www.marmotburrow.ucla.edu
Fermilab Flora and Fauna Woodchuck Is a woodchuck a groundhog Yes. The woodchuck, Marmota monax, is also called the groundhog or the whistle-pig. This rodent is a member of the squirrel family, and is found across Canada and in the northeastern and midwestern United States. The western United States is the home of its closest relatives, the yellow-bellied marmot and the hoary marmot. Do we have ...
www-ed.fnal.gov/entry_exhibits/woodchuck/woodchuck.html
Vancouver Island Marmot Marmota vancouverensis Endangered The world population of this animal, about the size of a woodchuck, is found only on a few of the higher mountains on Vancouver Island. Dependent on a very restrictive habitat of alpine and sub-alpine meadows and avalanche slopes, the Vancouver Island marmot has suffered from human interference through logging, recreational activity, and ...
www.nature.ca/notebooks/english/vanmarm.htm
Biology, ecology, habitat, and status of rare, threatened and endangered species of mammals and information on their native countries: biodiversity, ecosystems, population, and land use ...
www.animalinfo.org/species/rodent/marmvanc.htm
Journey North News Happy Groundhog's Day! February 2, 1996 Welcome to Journey North, 1996! Using the Internet, you and your Journey North classmates can predict spring's arrival this season--and give the groundhog a well deserved break with some high-tech help. Thanks to Mrs. Johansens' fifth grade class in New Hope, Minnesota we have a special Groundhog's Day report for you. Also here--the ...
www.learner.org/jnorth/www/critters/everywhere/823242112.html
Yellow-bellied marmot Marmota flaviventris Distribution. Western North America: US Rockies, Sierra Nevada and intermountain west. Yellow-bellied marmots are the best studied marmot species. Dr. Kenneth B. Armitage and a number of his students have studied a population in Gothic, Colorado since 1962. Yellow-bellied marmots have a harem-polygynous social system whereby a male defends and mates ...
www.marmotburrow.ucla.edu/ybelly.html
