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ID Please

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Posted by Ed Williams on September 16, 2012 at 1:42 AM
ID Please
I feel a bit silly asking this, because I think it is probably just a ground squirrel, but is it a ground squirrel or is it a juvenile marmot? The nose color makes me think marmot. The size and shape, ground squirrel. This was at 8,000 plus feet in Lassen National Park, Northern CA.
Posted by Max Waugh on September 16, 2012 at 7:47 AM
Looks like a young yellow-bellied marmot to me.

Max
Posted by Jim DeWitt on September 16, 2012 at 2:51 PM
The white on the face is distinctive, Ed. And in Lassen, there's only one species of marmot. So Yellow-bellied Marmot.
Posted by David Graham on September 16, 2012 at 4:05 PM
Is it a marmot? Yes.
Is it a ground squirrel? Yes.

Egad...Would that all were that simple!

Dave Graham
East River, SD
Posted by Ed Williams on September 16, 2012 at 11:47 PM
Thanks everyone for your confirmation. David, I guess, thinking about it that makes a lot of sense both ways.

Thanks