If I had to pick my favorite rodent, the choice would be easy: the marmot. Or more precisely, the yellow-bellied marmot of the American West, scientifically known as the Marmota flaviventris. Mountain ...

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 had ...

For the past 15 years, Dan Blumstein has been trying to get inside the heads of marmots. This is not an easy thing to do, as some marmots are total head cases. Blumstein is a professor of animal ...

We often see these brown, round, furry critters sitting on top of rocks high in stunning alpine settings. We hear their whistles as we hike above timberline along with the “eek!” of the pika.

When I lived out west and did a lot of hiking in the mountains, among my favorite animals were marmots. They would stand upright on the boulders of their rocky homes in high alpine meadows and whistle ...

Marmots are frequently sighted this time of year along roadsides, near trailheads and above treeline on rocky slopes. Anywhere in the high country where there are large boulders with crevices is ...

If you look up “groundhog,” you will be referred to woodchucks, but when you go there, you will not be told whether they chuck wood or what, exactly, chucking wood means. You will be further referred ...

Editor’s note: This article has been change to correctly reflect the distance from Aspen to Toronto, and the drive time from Denver to Aspen. Last week, pigs flew, at least one whistle pig did. A ...