Black Hat Marmot
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Black Hat Marmot ( Marmota camtschatica ) |
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The black hat marmot ( Marmota camtschatica ) is a socially living species from the genus of the marmots . It is named after the eye-catching dark hair on the top of the head and in the neck, which clearly stands out from the otherwise brown body dress.
The black-hat marmot is a Palearctic species whose range is limited to northeast Siberia. However, its range is not contiguous. Deposits are found in the mountains and tundra around Lake Baikal , the upper rivers of Jana and Kolyma , in the north of Kamchatka and in the central and northern part of the Chukchi Peninsula . Due to its northern habitat, this marmot species, like the Alaska marmot, is part of the arctic fauna . The animals are around 50 to 55 centimeters tall and weigh between three and five kilograms.
Black-hat marmots survive the arctic and sub-arctic winters through a long hibernation that they spend with their families. The buildings of this animal guard have corridors that can be over 100 meters long and partially run below the permafrost soil.
For fur use see also marble coat .
literature
- Richard Sale: A Complete Guide to Arctic Wildlife. Photographs by Per Michelsen and Richard Sale. Christopher Helm, London 2006, ISBN 0-7136-7039-8 .
- Monika Preleuthner, Gerhard Aubrecht (Ed.): Marmots (= catalog of the Upper Austrian State Museum. NF No. 146 = Stapfia. Vol. 63). Biology Center, Linz 1999, ISBN 3-85474-044-1 , online at ZOBODAT
Web links
- Marmota camtschatica inthe IUCN 2013 Red List of Threatened Species . Posted by: Tsytsulina, K., 2008. Retrieved October 8, 2013.