Hoary Marmot Basking in the Sun - Photo by Walter Siegmund<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nWatching out for predators has to be one of the main focuses for these little marmots as they have numerous enemies including grizzly bears, black bears, eagles, wolves, etc.\u00a0 The Hoary Marmot will usually warn its colony of danger by whistling a very high pitched shrill.\u00a0 This whistling has caused them to be known as “The Whistler” or even better “The Whistle Pig” .\u00a0 No matter how mean the names may be the Hoary Marmot will continue this whistling since it seems to be an effective warning call.<\/p>\n
Hoary Marmot Fast Fact – <\/strong>A colony of Hoary Marmots usually has a territory range of about 9 hectares.\u00a0 The dominant male will mark off this territory by rubbing a secretion generated from his facial glands on various boulders and burrows.<\/p>\nThanks for checking out today’s animal found in the Canadian Rockies.\u00a0 Stay tuned for more awesome animals of the Rocky Mountains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The second animal featured in Wild Facts – “Animals of the Canadian Rockies”\u00a0 is the Hoary Marmot.\u00a0 Now you may be looking at this picture and thinking that it looks similar to a ground squirrel.\u00a0 I would have to say you are pretty observant as the Hoary Marmot is actually the largest ground squirrel found in North America.\u00a0 If you want to check out this marmot then you are in luck since they are actually one of the most widespread alpine marmots out there.\u00a0 They can be found all the way from Alaska through northwestern Canada and into the northern <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1264,60,4024],"tags":[348,1268,692,1270,4025,1271,1269],"yoast_head":"\n
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