071 Wild marmot at Grand Muveran Nature Reserve Photo by Giles Laurent🐿️

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SpeciesRodentiaSciuridae
Mammals

🐿️Alpine marmot

Marmota marmota (Linnaeus, 1758)

Alp marmotu ya da dağ sıçanı (Marmota marmota), sincapgiller familyasının yer sincapları oymağından, Avrupa'da 800-3.200 m yüksekliklerdeki Alpler, Karpatlar, Tatra Dağları, Pireneler ve Kuzey Apeninler'de yaşayan marmot türü. Mükemmel kazıcıdırlar ve yılın dokuz ayını kış uykusuna yatarak geçirirler. Pireneler'de Pleistosen çağının sonunda ortadan kaybolmuş, 1948 yılında bölgeye yeniden yerleşmiştir.

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≈ 1/18th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2024.

Population trendUnknown
Key measurements
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
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Everything we know about the Alpine marmot

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
3.5 kg
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  • 3.5 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length
0.6 m
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Brain mass
15 g
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Maximum lifespan
18 years
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  • 17 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length
6.86 years
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Age at maturity
2.3 years
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Gestation
35 days
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  • 35 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size
about 4
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  • 4AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic level
Herbivore
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Activity cycle
Diurnal
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Home range
0.01 km²
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Population density
584 per km²
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Volume l
3.5 Laverage
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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.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderRodentia
  5. ›familySciuridae
  6. ›genusMarmota
  7. ›speciesMarmota marmota
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. orderRodents · Rodentia
  3. tribeMarmotini
  4. genusMarmota
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classMammals · Mammalia
  9. subclassTheria
  10. superorderEuarchontoglires
  11. orderRodents · Rodentia
  12. suborderSciuromorpha
  13. familySciuridae
  14. tribeMarmotini
  15. genusMarmota
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What it eats
leaves, roots and other plants40%
fruit30%
seeds and grain30%
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świstak alpejski (pl), Marmota marmota (fr), Marmota marmota (es), havasi mormota (hu), Marmota marmota (it), Alpenmurmeltier (de) … and 24 more languages
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