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Gray marmot

Order : Rodentia
Suborder : Sciurognathi
Family : Sciuridae
Subfamily : Sciurinae
Species : Marmota baibacina

 

The Gray marmot is listed as Least Concern (LR/lc), lowest risk. Does not qualify for a more at risk category. Widespread and abundant taxa are included in this category, on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

Facts about the gray marmot

Gray Marmot or Marmota baibacina is listed on the IUCN Red list (1996) as Lower Risk/Least Concern . (Full text)

Gray marmot is ecologically plastic species, what allow it to inhabite steppe and mountain regions. (Full text)

Tsybulin (5) Russia, the Altai, Kosh-Agach district Marmota baibacina is a mountain species, similar to baibak and tarbagan (body length up to 65 cm, tale length - up to 13 cm), but the fur is longer and softer. (Full text)

1. marmot -- (stocky coarse-furred burrowing rodent with a short bushy tail found throughout the northern hemisphere; hibernates in winter)
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