Yes, I admit it. I am a nut about nature. Not just the big amazing birds and animals such as eagles and bears, but the small critters too. I realized this (again) on my recent trip to Colorado. I ...

Groundhogs don’t live in our region, but yellow-bellied marmots do. And in case you didn’t notice, they live in the shadow of their groundhog cousins. But these rodents with tummies the color ...

Today, however, we are going to be covering a common distinction between groundhogs and another common species of marmot ...

Frank Alsheimer, science and operations officer at the National Weather Service in Columbia, SC., said there are a few issues with a groundhog predicting the weather forecast. “First of all, in ...

Move over, Punxsutawney Phil – one Colorado rodent is making his own prediction for winter. Flatiron Freddy, a top-hat ...

Yellow-bellied marmots prefer grasslands and meadows within the Sierra Nevada. Credit must be given to the creator. Only noncommercial uses of the work are permitted. No derivatives or adaptations ...

Play in yellow-bellied marmots has a social purpose, the authors of a recent Proceedings of the Royal Society B study argued: it helps the small mammals establish dominance hierarchies. Yellow-bellied ...

Boulder’s Open Space and Mountain Parks Department has announced that Flatiron Freddy — the city’s stuffed, top hat-wearing yellow-bellied marmot — will return this Sunday to make his ...

I had stopped along a steep mountain road and just below me were several yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventris). You might be more familiar with their eastern cousin the woodchuck.

“I study animal behavior," he said. "I run a long-term study of Yellow Belly marmots, one of the 15 species in Colorado. We've been studying them for 63 years. The timing of their events does ...

In the early 2010s, Flatiron Freddy existed peacefully as a deceased, stuffed yellow-bellied marmot – a close relative to the groundhog – in Boulder’s Flagstaff Nature Center, but one winter ...