Daniel Blumstein

You're more likely to die over hibernation.

Maybe because if everyone's having a good time over the summer,

they interfere with each other's hibernation over the winter.

And maybe, we don't know.

We want to put instruments in them and understand that.

Yeah.

Haven't been able to get funded for that.

That if you're social and you stick around and don't disperse, you're likely to be reproductively suppressed.

That nice girls finish last if you're a marmot.

And that as you get older, you get crotchetier and you get more successful.

So that's, don't follow that advice either.

Don't be a marmot.

Pups.

So.

So everything I say, you should not bring into your own life.

But at the end of the day, marmots do everything and different species do different things.

So I'm not going to talk about groundhogs per se.

I'm going to talk about some of the variation we see in marmots.

So groundhogs mate probably with one male.

Maybe two might be trying to defend them, but females more or less live alone, and they probably have one male defending them.