🐿️Alpine marmot
La Marmotte des Alpes (Marmota marmota) est un mammifère fouisseur de l'ordre des rongeurs. Il s'agit de l'une des espèces les plus répandues du genre Marmota, qui en compte une quinzaine. Elle vit entre 800 et 3 000 m d'altitude. On la rencontre également dans les Carpates. Elle a été réintroduite avec succès dans les Pyrénées en 1948 ; elle avait disparu à la fin du Pléistocène. Une réintroduction réussie a également été menée dans le massif du Vercors et dans le Massif central (dans les années 1980). L'implantation de l'espèce a été envisagée dans les massifs de montagne où elle est absente, sans suite à ce jour.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2024.
- Body mass
- 3.5 kg
- Body length
- 0.6 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 18 years
Everything we know about the Alpine marmot
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass3.5 kgCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 3.5 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length0.6 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Brain mass15 gCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan18 yearsCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 17 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length6.86 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity2.3 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation35 daysCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 35 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter sizeabout 4COMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 4AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic levelHerbivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleDiurnalCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Home range0.01 km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Population density584 per km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l3.5 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 Alpine marmot yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderRodentia
- ›familySciuridae
- ›genusMarmota
- ›speciesMarmota marmota
- 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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