Daniel Blumstein
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So, since we're talking about Zen-type statements, my insight after a lot of study was marmots are where they've been.
Just focus on that.
Find your inner eye.
Marmots are where they have been.
There are good areas and bad areas, and there's intergenerational transfer of these burrows.
So, on average, animals live about three and a half years, four and a half years.
They die, and other ones, their descendants come in, or sometimes new animals come in and take over the burrows.
When we've had huge population explosions, you see them dig new burrows.
These typically aren't good burrows.
They probably get killed in them.
The good places where they're living are good places where they've lived before.
So they dig.
They renovate.
You see them digging with their claws.
You see them moving rocks out with their mouth.
You see them making piles.
You see them pushing piles with their nose.
So they're well-equipped.
They're rodents.
Of course they have tails.