Olympic marmots are a cat-sized rodent, adults with thick brown and white fur coats for warmth, with young have a greyer fur color. Olympic marmots molt their fur twice a year, once in June and again during hibernation (Edelman 2003) #2025MMM
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Here in the Himalayas of Nepal, spring comes later, & Thorold's deer has scant food. With a summetime range stretching above 16,000 feet, Thorold's Deer is one of the rare deers adapted to elevations higher than the Sierras, Cascades, or Rocky Mountains. #2025MMM
Meanwhile in Olympic National Park on the Washington Peninsula, Olympic Marmot is curled up cozy HIBERNATING! Typically marmots stay in their burrows from September to May. (Murphy-Williams 2020; Edelman 2003) #2025MMM
March is well into the "withering" season, and Thorold's deer has migrated to lower elevations making the most of winter grasses, shrubs, & woody barks. (You et al. 2022) #2025MMM
RUDELY awakened from hibernation by MMMagical translocation, Olympic Marmot arrives near the Deer at the boundary of alpine meadow and alpine shrubland (You et al. 2022). #2025MMM
Marmot looks groggily about the landscape as the Deer strips bark from a shrub, suddenly the Marmot sprints across the snow toward a jumble of rocks and partially exposed earthen mound.. #2025MMM
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BUT WHERE'S THE PORCH?!
#2025MMM