Alpine marmot spreads into Catalan Pyrenees Date: March 9, 2010 Source: FECYT - Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology Summary: Researchers in Spain have demonstrated, using a map of the ...

An invasion of marmots has Alpine farmers in Germany's southern Allgäu region claiming the rodents have become a fuzzy plague. “There are simply too many,” Christoph Brutscher told German ...

(birds chirping) - [Narrator] Marmots are twice as fat now, as in the spring, are like stags who just lost one fifth of their body mass. For half a year, these Alpine rodents have stuffed themselves.

A local council has been criticised for unveiling an "Alpine Marmot" in place of Christmas tree. Alton, in Hampshire, some 700 miles from The Alps, revealed the character on Tuesday. It reportedly ...

IN THE Belianske Tatry mountain range, conservationists have renewed the wild population of Alpine marmots (Marmota marmota latirostris) which died out in this region in 2006 – probably killed by ...

At the end of the Pleistocene (10,000 years ago), the increase in temperatures brought an end to the alpine marmot (Marmota marmota) in the Pyrenees, but between 1950 and 1988, the French ...