hoary marmot in a sentence
Examples
- In some areas, grizzly bears prey on hoary marmots, overturning rocks to reach them, and in some cases preying on them when they are in hibernation.
- There are many kinds of large mammals in the park including grizzly bears, wolves, mountain lions, wolverines, boreal woodland caribou, moose, mountain goats and hoary marmots.
- Above the tree line on the trail leading to 7, 522-foot Scenic Point, two hoary marmots engaged in furious wrestling bouts at the edge of a precipice.
- The " whistler " is the western hoary marmot, a bushy-tailed cousin of the woodchuck that lives among the rocks and makes a kind of whistling sound.
- Many animals feed on the fruits, including mammals such as polar bears and other bears, meadow voles, red-backed voles, western heather voles, Dall's sheep, and sometimes caribou and hoary marmots.
- "Artemisia norvegica " is food for a number of animals, such as mountain goats, which eat it during the summer in Alaska, as well as Sitka black-tailed deer and hoary marmots.
- The Olympic marmot can be readily distinguished from the hoary marmot, with which it shares almost every other physical trait, by the lack of contrasting black feet and a black spot on the head.
- Hoary marmots frequently sun themselves on rocks, spending as much as 44 % of their time in the morning doing so, although they will shelter in their burrows or otherwise seek shade in especially warm weather.
- These surveyors named the mountain London Mountain because of the heavy fog and cloud typically gathering around the mountain, but the area informally acquired the name " Whistler " due to the call of the hoary marmot.
- In general larger sized than other rodent families, the species hunting range from the gray-collared chipmunk ( " Tamias cinereicollis " ) to the hoary marmot ( " Marmota caligata " ); thus, squirrels can be provide a very fulfilling meal.