#0089 · 🦊 mammals

Alpine Marmot

🇳🇱 Alpenmarmot ·Marmota marmota

LCleast concern 🦊 Mammals 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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what is it?

The alpine marmot ( Marmota marmota ) is a species of marmot found in mountainous areas of central and southern Europe. Alpine marmots live at heights between 800 and 3,200 metres in the Alps, Carpathians, Tatras, the Pyrenees and Northern Apennines in Italy. They were reintroduced with success in the Pyrenees in 1948, where the alpine marmot had disappeared at end of the Pleistocene epoch. They are excellent diggers, able to penetrate soil that even a pickaxe would...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 16,192iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
16,192 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).