yellow-bellied marmot

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a species of marmot, Marmota flaviventris, closely related to the hoary marmot.

Quotations

1958

Both the hoary and yellow-bellied marmots are found in our western mountains where they live among the rockslides of steep mountain slopes.

1963

Three of us had some interesting though not too productive yellow-bellied marmot (rock woodchuck) hunting around Merritt last weekend.