Marmot, the Glossary
Marmots are large ground squirrels in the genus Marmota, with 15 species living in Asia, Europe, and North America.[1]
Table of Contents
79 relations: Agatharchides, Alaska, Alaska marmot, Alpine marmot, Alps, Ancient Greece, Apennine Mountains, Bat, Bear, Berry, Black Death, Black Hills, Black-capped marmot, Bobak marmot, Brokpa, Brooks Range, Burrow, Carpathian Mountains, Cascade Range, Deosai National Park, Ethnology, Eulipotyphla, Eurasian Steppe, Extinction, Flower, Forest, Forest-steppe marmot, France, Gallo-Romance languages, Genus, Gold, Gold-digging ant, Gray marmot, Ground squirrel, Groundhog, Groundhog Day, Herbivore, Herodotus, Hibernation, Himalayan marmot, Himalayas, Hoary marmot, Jacopo Ligozzi, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Ladakh, Latin, Lichen, Long-tailed marmot, Marmot Day, Menzbier's marmot, ... Expand index (29 more) »
- Marmots
- Rodents of North America
- Taxa named by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
Agatharchides
Agatharchides or Agatharchus (Ἀγαθαρχίδης or Ἀγάθαρχος, Agatharchos) of Cnidus was a Greek historian and geographer (flourished 2nd century BC).
Alaska
Alaska is a non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America.
Alaska marmot
The Alaska marmot (Marmota broweri), also known as the Brooks Range marmot or the Brower's marmot, is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. Marmot and Alaska marmot are marmots.
Alpine marmot
The alpine marmot (Marmota marmota) is a large ground-dwelling squirrel, from the genus of marmots. Marmot and alpine marmot are marmots and rodents of Europe.
Alps
The Alps are one of the highest and most extensive mountain ranges in Europe, stretching approximately across eight Alpine countries (from west to east): Monaco, France, Switzerland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Germany, Austria and Slovenia.
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Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece (Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity, that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically related city-states and other territories.
Apennine Mountains
The Apennines or Apennine Mountains (Ἀπέννινα ὄρη or Ἀπέννινον ὄρος; Appenninus or Apenninus Mons– a singular with plural meaning; Appennini)Latin Apenninus (Greek Ἀπέννινος or Ἀπέννινα) has the form of an adjective, which would be segmented Apenn-inus, often used with nouns such as mons ("mountain") or Greek ὄρος, but Apenninus is just as often used alone as a noun.
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Bat
Bats are flying mammals of the order Chiroptera. Marmot and Bat are taxa named by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach.
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Bear
Bears are carnivoran mammals of the family Ursidae.
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Berry
A berry is a small, pulpy, and often edible fruit.
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Black Death
The Black Death was a bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Europe from 1346 to 1353.
Black Hills
The Black Hills is an isolated mountain range rising from the Great Plains of North America in western South Dakota and extending into Wyoming, United States.
Black-capped marmot
The black-capped marmot (Marmota camtschatica) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. Marmot and black-capped marmot are marmots.
See Marmot and Black-capped marmot
Bobak marmot
The bobak marmot (Marmota bobak), also known as the steppe marmot, is a species of marmot that inhabits the steppes of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Marmot and bobak marmot are marmots and rodents of Europe.
Brokpa
The Brokpa, sometimes referred to as Minaro, are a small ethnic group mostly found in the union territory of Ladakh, India around the villages of Dha and Hanu.
Brooks Range
The Brooks Range (Gwich'in: Gwazhał) is a mountain range in far northern North America stretching some from west to east across northern Alaska into Canada's Yukon Territory.
Burrow
An eastern chipmunk at the entrance of its burrow A burrow is a hole or tunnel excavated into the ground by an animal to construct a space suitable for habitation or temporary refuge, or as a byproduct of locomotion.
Carpathian Mountains
The Carpathian Mountains or Carpathians are a range of mountains forming an arc across Central Europe and Southeast Europe.
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Cascade Range
The Cascade Range or Cascades is a major mountain range of western North America, extending from southern British Columbia through Washington and Oregon to Northern California.
Deosai National Park
Deosai National Park is a high-altitude alpine plain and national park located between the Skardu District, Kharmang District and Astore District in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan.
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Ethnology
Ethnology (from the ἔθνος, ethnos meaning 'nation') is an academic field and discipline that compares and analyzes the characteristics of different peoples and the relationships between them (compare cultural, social, or sociocultural anthropology).
Eulipotyphla
Eulipotyphla (which means "truly fat and blind") is an order of mammals suggested by molecular methods of phylogenetic reconstruction, which includes the laurasiatherian members of the now-invalid polyphyletic order Lipotyphla, but not the afrotherian members (tenrecs, golden moles, and otter shrews, now in their own order Afrosoricida).
Eurasian Steppe
The Eurasian Steppe, also called the Great Steppe or The Steppes, is the vast steppe ecoregion of Eurasia in the temperate grasslands, savannas and shrublands biome.
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Extinction
Extinction is the termination of a taxon by the death of its last member.
Flower
A flower, also known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Angiospermae).
Forest
A forest is an ecosystem characterized by a dense community of trees.
Forest-steppe marmot
The forest-steppe marmot (Marmota kastschenkoi) is a rodent species of the marmot genus found in south-central Russia. Marmot and forest-steppe marmot are marmots and rodents of Asia.
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France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.
Gallo-Romance languages
The Gallo-Romance branch of the Romance languages includes in the narrowest sense the langues d'oïl and Franco-Provençal.
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Genus
Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.
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Gold
Gold is a chemical element; it has symbol Au (from the Latin word aurum) and atomic number 79.
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Gold-digging ant
The gold-digging ant is a mythical insect described in classical and medieval bestiaries.
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Gray marmot
The gray marmot, grey marmot, or Altai marmot (Marmota baibacina) is a species of rodent in the squirrel family Sciuridae. Marmot and gray marmot are marmots.
Ground squirrel
Ground squirrels are rodents of the squirrel family (Sciuridae) that generally live on the ground or in burrows, rather than in trees like the tree squirrels. Marmot and ground squirrel are rodents of Asia and rodents of North America.
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Groundhog
The groundhog (Marmota monax), also known as the woodchuck, is a rodent of the family Sciuridae, belonging to the group of large ground squirrels known as marmots. Marmot and groundhog are marmots.
Groundhog Day
Groundhog Day (Grund'sau dåk, Grundsaudaag, Grundsow Dawg, Murmeltiertag; Nova Scotia: Daks Day) is a tradition observed regionally in the United States and Canada on February 2 of every year.
Herbivore
A herbivore is an animal anatomically and physiologically adapted to eating plant material, for example foliage or marine algae, for the main component of its diet.
Herodotus
Herodotus (Ἡρόδοτος||; BC) was a Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus, part of the Persian Empire (now Bodrum, Turkey) and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria, Italy.
Hibernation
Hibernation is a state of minimal activity and metabolic depression undergone by some animal species.
Himalayan marmot
The Himalayan marmot (Marmota himalayana) is a marmot species that inhabits alpine grasslands throughout the Himalayas and on the Tibetan Plateau. Marmot and himalayan marmot are marmots.
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Himalayas
The Himalayas, or Himalaya.
Hoary marmot
The hoary marmot (Marmota caligata) is a species of marmot that inhabits the mountains of northwest North America. Marmot and hoary marmot are marmots.
Jacopo Ligozzi
Jacopo Ligozzi (1547–1627) was an Italian painter, illustrator, designer, and miniaturist.
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (11 May 1752 – 22 January 1840) was a German physician, naturalist, physiologist, and anthropologist.
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Ladakh
Ladakh is a region administered by India as a union territory and constitutes an eastern portion of the larger Kashmir region that has been the subject of a dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947 and India and China since 1959.
Latin
Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
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Lichen
A lichen is a symbiosis of algae or cyanobacteria living among filaments of multiple fungi species, along with a yeast embedded in the cortex or "skin", in a mutualistic relationship.
Long-tailed marmot
The long-tailed marmot (Marmota caudata) or golden marmot is a marmot species in the family Sciuridae. Marmot and long-tailed marmot are marmots.
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Marmot Day
Marmot Day is an Alaskan holiday established to celebrate marmots and Alaskan culture.
Menzbier's marmot
The Menzbier's marmot (Marmota menzbieri) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae from Central Asia. Marmot and Menzbier's marmot are marmots.
See Marmot and Menzbier's marmot
Michel Peissel
Michel Georges Francois Peissel (February 11, 1937 – October 7, 2011) was a French ethnologist, explorer and author.
Miocene
The Miocene is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma).
Moss
Mosses are small, non-vascular flowerless plants in the taxonomic division Bryophyta sensu stricto.
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Natural reservoir
In infectious disease ecology and epidemiology, a natural reservoir, also known as a disease reservoir or a reservoir of infection, is the population of organisms or the specific environment in which an infectious pathogen naturally lives and reproduces, or upon which the pathogen primarily depends for its survival.
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Olympic marmot
The Olympic marmot (Marmota olympus) is a rodent in the squirrel family, Sciuridae. Marmot and Olympic marmot are marmots.
Olympic Peninsula
The Olympic Peninsula is a large arm of land in western Washington that lies across Puget Sound from Seattle, and contains Olympic National Park.
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Onomatopoeia
Onomatopoeia (or rarely echoism) is a type of word, or the process of creating a word, that phonetically imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound that it describes.
Pacific Ranges
The Pacific Ranges are the southernmost subdivision of the Coast Mountains portion of the Pacific Cordillera.
Pakistan
Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia.
Poaceae
Poaceae, also called Gramineae, is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses.
Prairie dog
Prairie dogs (genus Cynomys) are herbivorous burrowing ground squirrels native to the grasslands of North America.
Pyrenees
The Pyrenees are a mountain range straddling the border of France and Spain.
Rocky Mountains
The Rocky Mountains, also known as the Rockies, are a major mountain range and the largest mountain system in North America.
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Rodent
Rodents (from Latin rodere, 'to gnaw') are mammals of the order Rodentia, which are characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each of the upper and lower jaws.
Root
In vascular plants, the roots are the organs of a plant that are modified to provide anchorage for the plant and take in water and nutrients into the plant body, which allows plants to grow taller and faster.
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Siberia
Siberia (Sibir') is an extensive geographical region comprising all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east.
Sierra Nevada
The Sierra Nevada is a mountain range in the Western United States, between the Central Valley of California and the Great Basin.
Squirrel
Squirrels are members of the family Sciuridae, a family that includes small or medium-sized rodents.
Strabo
StraboStrabo (meaning "squinty", as in strabismus) was a term employed by the Romans for anyone whose eyes were distorted or deformed.
Subgenus
In biology, a subgenus (plural: subgenera) is a taxonomic rank directly below genus.
Tarbagan marmot
The tarbagan marmot (Marmota sibirica) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. Marmot and tarbagan marmot are marmots.
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Tatra Mountains
The Tatra Mountains, Tatras (Tatry either in Slovak or in Polish - plurale tantum), are a series of mountains within the Western Carpathians that form a natural border between Slovakia and Poland.
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Vancouver Island
Vancouver Island is an island in the northeastern Pacific Ocean and part of the Canadian province of British Columbia.
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Vancouver Island marmot
The Vancouver Island marmot (Marmota vancouverensis) naturally occurs only in the high mountains of Vancouver Island, in British Columbia. Marmot and vancouver Island marmot are marmots.
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Washington (state)
Washington, officially the State of Washington, is the westernmost state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.
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Yellow-bellied marmot
The yellow-bellied marmot (Marmota flaviventris), also known as the rock chuck, is a large, stout-bodied ground squirrel in the marmot genus. Marmot and yellow-bellied marmot are marmots.
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Yersinia pestis
Yersinia pestis (Y. pestis; formerly Pasteurella pestis) is a gram-negative, non-motile, coccobacillus bacterium without spores that is related to both Yersinia enterocolitica and Yersinia pseudotuberculosis, the pathogen from which Y. pestis evolved and responsible for the Far East scarlet-like fever.
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Zoologicheskii Zhurnal
Zoologicheskii Zhurnal (Зоологический Журнал, Zoological Journal) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published in Russian covering research in zoology.
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14th century
The 14th century lasted from 1 January 1301 (represented by the Roman numerals MCCCI) to 31 December 1400 (MCD).
See also
Marmots
- Alaska marmot
- Alpine marmot
- Black-capped marmot
- Bobak marmot
- Forest-steppe marmot
- Gray marmot
- Groundhog
- Groundhogs
- Himalayan marmot
- Hoary marmot
- Long-tailed marmot
- Marmot
- Menzbier's marmot
- Olympic marmot
- Tarbagan marmot
- Tatra marmot
- Vancouver Island marmot
- Yellow-bellied marmot
Rodents of North America
- Allen's woodrat
- Angel Island mouse
- Baja California rock squirrel
- Big pocket gopher
- Black-wristed deer mouse
- Burt's deer mouse
- Callospermophilus
- Chihuahuan mouse
- Chinanteco deer mouse
- Delicate deer mouse
- Dickey's deer mouse
- Eva's desert mouse
- False canyon mouse
- Ground squirrel
- Habromys schmidlyi
- Heterogeomys
- Ixtlán deer mouse
- Jaliscan cotton rat
- Jico deer mouse
- Margarita Island kangaroo rat
- Marmot
- Mexican prairie dog
- Michoacan pocket gopher
- Nayarit mouse
- Nelson's woodrat
- Oryzomys albiventer
- Oryzomys nelsoni
- Otospermophilus
- Pennatomys
- Perognathus
- Perote mouse
- Peters's squirrel
- Plate-toothed giant hutia
- San Esteban Island mouse
- San Lorenzo mouse
- San Martín Island woodrat
- San Quintin kangaroo rat
- Santa Cruz mouse
- Sierra Madre ground squirrel
- Sierra del Carmen chipmunk
- Tres Marías Island mouse
- Tweedy's crab-eating rat
- Variable pocket gopher
- Volcan de Toluca pocket gopher
- White-throated woodrat
- Zempoaltepec deer mouse
Taxa named by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
- African bush elephant
- Bat
- Cemophora coccinea
- Cemophora coccinea coccinea
- Central chimpanzee
- Chimpanzee
- Irish elk
- Marmot
- Woolly mammoth
- Woolly rhinoceros
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmot
Also known as Marmota, Marmota (Petromarmota), Marmota (subgenus), Marmots, Marmpt, Petromarmota.
, Michel Peissel, Miocene, Moss, Natural reservoir, Olympic marmot, Olympic Peninsula, Onomatopoeia, Pacific Ranges, Pakistan, Poaceae, Prairie dog, Pyrenees, Rocky Mountains, Rodent, Root, Siberia, Sierra Nevada, Squirrel, Strabo, Subgenus, Tarbagan marmot, Tatra Mountains, Vancouver Island, Vancouver Island marmot, Washington (state), Yellow-bellied marmot, Yersinia pestis, Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 14th century.