Marmot
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 Marmot facts

• Some species live in mountainous areas, such as the Alps, northern Apennines, Carpathians, Tatras, and Pyrenees in Europe and northwestern Asia; the Rocky Mountains, Black Hills, the Cascade and Pacific Ranges, and the Sierra Nevada in North America; and the Deosai Plateau in Pakistan and Ladakh in India
• Other species prefer rough grassland and can be found widely across North America and the Eurasian Steppe
• The similarly-sized but more social prairie dog is not classified in the genus Marmota but in the related genus Cynomys
• Marmots typically live in burrows (often within rockpiles, particularly in the case of the yellow-bellied marmot), and hibernate there through the winter
• Most marmots are highly social and use loud whistles to communicate with one another, especially when alarmed
• Marmots mainly eat greens and many types of grasses, berries, lichens, mosses, roots, and flowers