🐿️Hoary marmot
Marmota caligata o marmota canosa es una especie de marmota que habita en las montañas del noroeste de América del Norte. Las marmotas canosas viven cerca de la línea de árboles en las laderas con pastos y hierbas para comer y áreas rocosas para cubrirse Los parientes más cercanos de la especie son marmota de vientre amarillo, marmota olímpica y la La marmota de Vancouver, aunque las relaciones exactas no están claras.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2018.
- Body mass
- 4.3 kg
- Body length
- 0.6 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 12 years
Everything we know about the Hoary marmot
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass4.3 kgCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 4.3 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: questionable
Body length0.6 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Brain mass15 gCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan12 yearsCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 12 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: questionable
Generation length5.22 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity2.3 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation30 daysCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 29 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: questionable
Litter sizeabout 5COMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 4.2AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: questionable
Trophic levelHerbivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleDiurnalCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l4.3 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Hoary marmot yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderRodentia
- ›familySciuridae
- ›genusMarmota
- ›speciesMarmota caligata
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderRodents · Rodentia
- tribeMarmotini
- genusMarmota
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderEuarchontoglires
- orderRodents · Rodentia
- suborderSciuromorpha
- familySciuridae
- tribeMarmotini
- genusMarmota
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