{"id":34420,"date":"2025-04-20T16:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T23:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34420"},"modified":"2025-04-20T18:57:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T01:57:24","slug":"yellow-bellied-marmot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34420","title":{"rendered":"Yellow-bellied marmot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yellow-bellied marmots are back out of hibernation. I think that only the adults are visible at present. Soon there will be mating, and then, after about 30 days of gestation, we will see pups nursing.<\/p>\n<p>A marmot watches the world.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34421\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/marmot250420as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Often only the head of the marmot is seen as it lounges. Here is the full marmot walking. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34422\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/marmot250420bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And another of it standing up watching something.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34423\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/marmot250420cs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Yellow-bellied marmots are back out of hibernation. I think that only the adults are visible at present. Soon there will be mating, and then, after about 30 days of gestation, we will see pups nursing. A marmot watches the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34420\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-34420","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\/34420","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=34420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34424,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34420\/revisions\/34424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}