🐿️Alpine marmot
고산마멋(Marmota marmota)은 다람쥐과에 속하는 설치류의 일종이다. 유럽 중부와 남부의 산악 지대에서 발견된다. 고산마멋은 알프스산맥과 카르파티아산맥, 타트리산맥, 피레네산맥, 이탈리아 아펜니노산맥의 해발 800m와 3,200m 사이의 고도에서 생활한다. 플라이스토세 말에 사라졌던 고산마멋은 1948년 피레네 산맥에 성공적으로 재도입되었다. 땅을 아주 잘 파는 동물로 곡괭이로도 파기 어려운 땅에 구멍을 뚫을 수 있으며, 일년에 최대 9개월 동안 겨울잠을 잔다.
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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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