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 at burrow
Title: Yellow-bellied Marmot at burrow
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 4/18/2016
Alert Yellow-bellied Marmot
Title: Alert Yellow-bellied Marmot
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 4/18/2016
Mid-morning Yellow-bellied Marmot
Title: Mid-morning Yellow-bellied Marmot
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 4/18/2016
Northern Utah Yellow-bellied Marmot close up
Title: Northern Utah Yellow-bellied Marmot close up
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 4/18/2016
Box Elder County Yellow-bellied Marmot
Title: Box Elder County Yellow-bellied Marmot
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 3/27/2016
Yellow-bellied Marmot warming up on a boulder
Title: Yellow-bellied Marmot warming up on a boulder
Location: Capitol Reef National Park, Wayne County, Utah
Date: 3/17/2016
Yellow-bellied Marmot at Capitol Reef National Park
Title: Yellow-bellied Marmot at Capitol Reef National Park
Location: Capitol Reef National Park, Wayne County, Utah
Date: 3/17/2016
Belly of a Yellow-bellied Marmot
Title: Belly of a Yellow-bellied Marmot
Location: Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Centennial Valley, Beaverhead County, Montana
Date: 6/7/2013
Yellow-bellied Marmot crossing a dirt track
Title: Yellow-bellied Marmot crossing a dirt track
Location: Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Centennial Valley, Beaverhead County, Montana
Date: 6/7/2013
Toothy-grin from a Yellow-bellied Marmot
Title: Toothy-grin from a Yellow-bellied Marmot
Location: Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Centennial Valley, Beaverhead County, Montana
Date: 6/7/2013
Yellow-bellied Marmot raspberry
Title: Yellow-bellied Marmot raspberry
Location: Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Centennial Valley, Beaverhead County, Montana
Date: 6/3/2013
Yellow-bellied Marmot at Red Rock Lakes NWR
Title: Yellow-bellied Marmot at Red Rock Lakes NWR
Location: Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Centennial Valley, Beaverhead County, Montana
Date: 6/25/2010