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.
Yellow-bellied Marmot pup eating grass
Title: Yellow-bellied Marmot pup eating grass
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 5/5/2017
Yellow-bellied Marmot pup on a rock face
Title: Yellow-bellied Marmot pup on a rock face
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 5/5/2017
Yellow-bellied Marmot pup near a shallow cave
Title: Yellow-bellied Marmot pup near a shallow cave
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 5/5/2017
Adult Yellow-bellied Marmot keeping an eye out for its pups
Title: Adult Yellow-bellied Marmot keeping an eye out for its pups
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 5/5/2017
Adult Yellow-bellied Marmot on the look out
Title: Adult Yellow-bellied Marmot on the look out
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 5/5/2017
Northern Utah Yellow-bellied Marmot portrait
Title: Northern Utah Yellow-bellied Marmot portrait
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 4/19/2017
Yellow-bellied Marmot sticking out its tongue
Title: Yellow-bellied Marmot sticking out its tongue
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 4/19/2017
Yellow-bellied Marmot eating grass portrait
Title: Yellow-bellied Marmot eating grass portrait
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 4/19/2017
Yawning Yellow-bellied Marmot
Title: Yawning Yellow-bellied Marmot
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 4/19/2017
Yellow-bellied Marmot about to yawn
Title: Yellow-bellied Marmot about to yawn
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 4/19/2017
Yellow-bellied Marmot close up
Title: Yellow-bellied Marmot close up
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 4/19/2017
Adult female Yellow-bellied Marmot in April
Title: Adult female Yellow-bellied Marmot in April
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 4/19/2017
Curious Yellow-bellied Marmot in Northern Utah
Title: Curious Yellow-bellied Marmot in Northern Utah
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 3/3/2017
Yellow-bellied Marmot with lichen covered rocks
Title: Yellow-bellied Marmot with lichen covered rocks
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 3/3/2017
Yellow-bellied Marmot on the rocks
Title: Yellow-bellied Marmot on the rocks
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 3/3/2017
Yellow-bellied Marmot in a crevice
Title: Yellow-bellied Marmot in a crevice
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 3/3/2017
Curious Yellow-bellied Marmot
Title: Curious Yellow-bellied Marmot
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 3/3/2017
Yellow-bellied Marmot in a rocky crevice
Title: Yellow-bellied Marmot in a rocky crevice
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 3/3/2017
Yellow-bellied Marmot resting in the sun
Title: Yellow-bellied Marmot resting in the sun
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 4/18/2016
Adult Yellow-bellied Marmot
Title: Adult Yellow-bellied Marmot
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 4/18/2016