Yellow-bellied Marmot Images, Facts and Information:
Marmota flaviventris
- Yellow-bellied Marmots are large burrowing rodents with brown fur, yellow bellies, white muzzles and small round ears.
- Male marmots are larger on average then the females.
- Yellow-bellied Marmots are found throughout the western U.S including the Rockies, Sierra Nevada and the intermountain west along with some areas in Canada.
- The preferred habit for Yellow-bellied Marmots includes alpine meadows, steppes, rocky mountain talus slopes, semi-desert areas, pastures and forest edges.
- Yellow-bellied Marmots eat grasses, leaves, blossoms of herbaceous plants, grains, fruit and occasionally insects.
- Nicknames for Yellow-bellied Marmots include “rock chuck” and “whistle pig”.
- Yellow-bellied Marmots have 1 to 5 pups in their litters.
- Yellow-bellied Marmots live up to 13 to 15 years.
I hope you enjoy viewing my Yellow-bellied Marmot photos.
Female Yellow-bellied Marmot keeping watch over her pup
Title: Female Yellow-bellied Marmot keeping watch over her pup
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 3/16/2019
Big male Yellow-bellied Marmot
Title: Big male Yellow-bellied Marmot
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 3/16/2019
Yellow-bellied Marmot pup sitting on rocks near its burrow
Title: Yellow-bellied Marmot pup sitting on rocks near its burrow
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 3/16/2019
Yellow-bellied Marmot pup standing up on some rocks
Title: Yellow-bellied Marmot pup standing up on some rocks
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 3/16/2019
Male Yellow-bellied Marmot in March
Title: Male Yellow-bellied Marmot in March
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 3/16/2019
Yellow-bellied Marmot pups greeting each other
Title: Yellow-bellied Marmot pups greeting each other
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 5/20/2018
Yellow-bellied Marmot pup grooming its tail
Title: Yellow-bellied Marmot pup grooming its tail
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 5/20/2018
Spring Yellow-bellied Marmot pup
Title: Spring Yellow-bellied Marmot pup
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 4/26/2018
Young Yellow-bellied Marmot pup on a lichen encrusted rock
Title: Young Yellow-bellied Marmot pup on a lichen encrusted rock
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 4/14/2018
Fence climbing Yellow-bellied Marmot pup
Title: Fence climbing Yellow-bellied Marmot pup
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 4/14/2018
Yellow-bellied Marmot pups side by side
Title: Yellow-bellied Marmot pups side by side
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 4/14/2018
Cute Yellow-bellied Marmot pups on a lichen-covered rock
Title: Cute Yellow-bellied Marmot pups on a lichen-covered rock
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 4/14/2018
Alert little Yellow-bellied Marmot pup on a rock
Title: Alert little Yellow-bellied Marmot pup on a rock
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 4/14/2018
Yellow-bellied Marmot pup attempting to climb the fence again
Title: Yellow-bellied Marmot pup attempting to climb the fence again
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 4/14/2018
Yellow-bellied Marmot pup grasping a fence
Title: Yellow-bellied Marmot pup grasping a fence
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 4/14/2018
Yellow-bellied Marmot pup climbing a fence
Title: Yellow-bellied Marmot pup climbing a fence
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 4/14/2018
Yellow-bellied Marmot pup siblings near their burrow
Title: Yellow-bellied Marmot pup siblings near their burrow
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 4/14/2018
Yellow-bellied Marmot pup reaching up higher on the fence
Title: Yellow-bellied Marmot pup reaching up higher on the fence
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 4/14/2018
Yellow-bellied Marmot pup looking up at the top of a fence
Title: Yellow-bellied Marmot pup looking up at the top of a fence
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 4/14/2018
Yellow-bellied Marmot pup sniffing a fence
Title: Yellow-bellied Marmot pup sniffing a fence
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 4/14/2018