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Alpine marmot

(Marmota marmota)

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Description

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 have difficulty with,and spend up to nine months per year in hibernation.

Taxonomic tree:

Domain:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum:
Class: Mammalia
Order:Rodentia
Family:Sciuridae
Genus:Marmota
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