Talk:Long-tailed marmot

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Did you know... that the long-tailed marmot spends seven or eight months of each year in hibernation?

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Are we certain the image is of a Long-tailed Marmot and not of the Yellow Ground Squirrel, Spermophilus fulvus? --Aranae (talk) 21:17, 16 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It certainly looks a lot more like Spermophilus than Marmota: narrow tail, slender head. Ucucha 21:22, 16 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

On the other hand, both of these pictures are apparently the same animal and nr. 2 does look more marmot-like. Ucucha 14:11, 17 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]