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SpeciesRodentiaSciuridae
Mammals

🐿️Groundhog

Marmota monax (Linnaeus, 1758)

美洲旱獺(学名:Marmota monax),又稱北美土拨鼠,是旱獺屬的一种哺乳动物。其毛呈灰褐色,体态肥胖,一般体长40到65厘米,重约2到4千克,一些大型的品种体长可达80厘米,重14千克。其前爪灵活有力,擅长挖洞。這種土拨鼠主要分布于美国與加拿大。

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Measurements
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vs you
≈ 1/18th of your weight
Also called
Marmota monax, Woodchuck, Woodchuck (Gopher)
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2016.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
3.41 kg
Body length
0.51 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
14 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Groundhog

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

Body mass
3.41 kg
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 4 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length
0.51 m
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Brain mass
14 g
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Maximum lifespan
14 years
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  • 14 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length
4.39 years
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Age at maturity
1.1 years
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Gestation
32 days
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  • 32 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size
about 5
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 4.5AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic level
Omnivore
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Activity cycle
Diurnal
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Home range
0.01 km²
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Population density
137 per km²
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Volume l
3.4 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 Groundhog 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 monax
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. orderRodents · Rodentia
  3. tribeMarmotini
  4. genusMarmota
All 15 branches ↓
  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%
In other languages
Waldmurmeltier (de), świstak amerykański (pl), Marmota monax (fr), מרמיטה צפון אמריקאית (he), Marmota monax (es), erdei mormota (hu) … and 21 more languages

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