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Hanging with the boys – female Alpine marmots benefit from a bit of pre-natal testosterone

Alpine marmots (Marmota marmota) live in extended family groups of up to 20 individuals. The groups consist of a dominant territorial pair and a number of subordinate individuals, typically descendants of the dominant pair. ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The alpine marmot spreads into the Catalan Pyrenees

Researchers from the Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF) and the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) have demonstrated, using a map of the potential distribution, the alpine ...

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 09, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0




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Marmots are returned to the Dolomites

Twenty pairs of marmots -- Europe's version of the U.S.'s groundhog -- have been reintroduced into Italy's National Park of the Belluno Dolomites.

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created Jun 05, 2006 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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