Marmots

Animals that hibernate in the winter also suffer from warming temperatures. Marmots, chipmunks, and bears are waking up as much as a month early. Some are not hibernating at all.

Examples of animals common to alpine tundra environments include mountain goats, pikas, chinchillas, yaks, and marmots.

They suspect the outbreak started in a Wuhan seafood market, which also sold other animals such as poultry, bats, marmots, and wild game meat.

Marmots are large ground squirrels.

Yellow-bellied marmots are found in the western U.S., while groundhogs are found in the east.

Marmots are just chonky squirrels.