{"id":17967,"date":"2016-07-24T06:43:23","date_gmt":"2016-07-24T13:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=17967"},"modified":"2016-07-24T06:43:23","modified_gmt":"2016-07-24T13:43:23","slug":"hoary-marmots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=17967","title":{"rendered":"Hoary Marmots"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I have made many postings about marmots, but all recent ones treated\u00a0the Yellow-bellied Marmot. This one is about the Hoary Marmot.<\/p>\n

Three species of marmot are found on the mainland of British Columbia — Yellow-bellied, Hoary, and Woodchuck — all of which are found around Kootenay Lake. Of those, I had only seen the first. Here is the second and largest of them.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The presence of all three of these marmots here is somewhat accidental. Kootenay Lake is near the northern limit of the Yellow-bellied’s range, and near the southern limit for the other two. The first two are fairly common, but the Woodchuck seems a local rarity. Recent postings have favoured the Yellow-bellied because it inhabits the valleys while the\u00a0Hoary favours subalpine mountain slopes.<\/p>\n

The Hoary Marmot is named for the silver-gray fur on its\u00a0shoulders and upper back. It spends nearly half its morning sunning itself on rocks.
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The Hoary’s lower back and tail show hints of reddish-brown. This Hoary shared its talus with Pikas<\/a>.
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This is the time of year to see the pups.
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“Maybe the time has come to roll over and sun the other side.”
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  I have made many postings about marmots, but all recent ones treated\u00a0the Yellow-bellied Marmot. This one is about the Hoary Marmot. Three species of marmot are found on the mainland of British Columbia — Yellow-bellied, Hoary, and Woodchuck — … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mammals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17967"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18004,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17967\/revisions\/18004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}