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Alpine Marmot

Marmota marmota

Classification

Family
Sciuridae

The alpine marmot (Marmota marmota) is a large ground-dwelling squirrel, from the genus of marmots. It is found in high numbers in mountainous areas of central and southern Europe, at heights between 800 and 3,200 m (2,600–10,500 ft) in the Alps, Carpathians, Tatras and Northern Apennines. In 1948 they were reintroduced with success in the Pyrenees, where the alpine marmot had disappeared at end of the Pleistocene epoch.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Switzerland · 40,173France · 23,138Italy · 4,879Spain · 1,931Germany · 586Netherlands · 2