One may be the loneliest number for humans, but some mammals fare better when they are on their own. Take, for instance, the yellow-bellied marmot. As Douglas Quenqua reports for the New York Times, ...

A Himalayan marmot. (Credit: Yuanqing Tao) How do animals live in the cold, oxygen-starved environments of the high mountains? Himalayan marmots — beaver-ish rodents of unusual size — may have an ...

Vancouver Island marmots now number 427 in 35 colonies — up from just 22 marmots in 2003 — in Vancouver Island’s alpine ...

One of my favorite things about hiking near the top of mountains is the transition between the alpine and subalpine communities. In this area, I am prepared to hear “eeps” and “peeps” and “sweaks” ...

Large ground squirrels called yellow-bellied marmots live much longer, on average, if they are less social and more isolated than if they are more social and less isolated, a long-term study has found ...

EAGLE COUNTY — Marmots and pikas are neighbors in the rocks on the alpine tundra, but their morphology, appearance and survival strategies are dramatically different. Marmot Yellow-bellied marmots ...

Hiking across Vancouver Island’s Mount Washington, marmot keeper Jordyn Alger is perplexed. “I’ve never not seen a marmot on a walk here before,” she says. Despite her radio-tracking equipment, she’s ...

We often see these brown, round, furry critters sitting on top of rocks high in stunning alpine settings. We hear their whistles as we hike above timberline along with the “eek!” of the pika.

Himalayan marmots can survive at altitudes up to 5,000 meters in the Himalayan regions of India, Nepal, and Pakistan and on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau of China, where many of them face extreme cold, ...