Daniel Blumstein

No, I would launch a fat marmot week.

We've talked about that.

But by the end of the season, my team is so burned out.

We have a five-month field season.

I'm there about two and a half months.

We should do that.

It's like everyone's like, I want to go home.

But yes, at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory where I work, we're talking about starting a fat marmot week.

September, but that's when we have to come back and teach and

Yeah.

So groundhogs are not that social.

Okay.

So if you have a good meadow, you can have lots of mothers with their kids sticking around, but then pretty much everyone disperses away.

Maybe they settle in that meadow and maybe it's just a really good space for them to live.

Maybe they don't have dogs eating them or coyotes, but groundhogs per se are not supposed to be that social.

We can have in a meadow a

you know, 60 animals.

And that's the facultatively social one species.

The more social ones you'll have in large Alpine meadows, you'll have a family group with 10 to 20 individuals and another family group, 10 to 20 individuals, et cetera, et cetera.

So groundhogs often are more spread out in that.