Black-capped marmot

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Black-capped marmot

Order : Rodentia
Suborder : Sciurognathi
Family : Sciuridae
Subfamily : Sciurinae
Species : Marmota camtschatica

The Black-capped marmot is listed as Least Concern (LR/lc), lowest risk. Does not qualify for a more at risk category. Widespread and abundant taxa are included in this category, on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

Facts about the black-capped marmot

The black-capped marmot is a social animal, and so many of them could be raised in relatively small areas. (Full text)

Black-Capped Marmot or Marmota camtschatica is listed on the IUCN Red list (1996) as Lower Risk/Least Concern . (Full text)

The black-capped marmot is a good species in which to study the evolution of sociality (Armitage 1999). (Full text)

The black-capped marmots are most likely seemed to consider as superspecies "Marmota camtschatica". (Full text)

It is known that Marmota camtschatica is the arctic alpine species and inhabits strictly alpine belt in Northern Transbaikalia. (Full text)

So it turned out that the present number of black-capped marmot is lower for 2 -3 times on the whole than it had been observed 4 decades ago. (Full text)

ORIGINS The black-capped marmot is an important inter-mediate between "marmota" and "bobac" groups. (Full text)