In areas frequented by people, hoary marmots are not shy.

Hoary marmots moult in the early to mid summer.

The locals were intrigued by the sound made by the western hoary marmots at the lake, so they called the area Whistler.

Hoary marmots breed shortly after, or even before, their emergence from hibernation burrows in May.

Hoary marmots live in alpine meadows, often adjacent to boulders or talus.

Hoary marmots live near the tree line on slopes with grasses and forbs to eat and rocky areas for cover.

Many forms of social behaviour have been observed among hoary marmots, including play fighting, wrestling, social grooming, and nose-to-nose touching.

There are many small mammals such as hoary marmots, Arctic ground squirrels, pikas, beavers and otters.

Hoary marmots are also vocal animals, with at least seven distinct types of calls, including chirps, whistles, growls, and whining sounds.

Animals include Mountain Goats and Hoary Marmots.

Hoary marmots are diurnal and herbivorous, subsisting on leaves, flowers, grasses, and sedges.

Smaller animals, such as hoary marmots, arctic ground squirrels, beavers, pikas, and snowshoe hares are seen in abundance.

Above the tree line on the trail leading to 7,522-foot Scenic Point, two hoary marmots engaged in furious wrestling bouts at the edge of a precipice.

Other marmots, such as the yellow-bellied and hoary marmots, live in rocky and mountainous areas, but the woodchuck is a lowland creature.

This week, we challenge you to get from the official United States Hang Gliding Association site to this page, which tells you where to find hoary marmots.

This species is food for a number of animals, such as mountain goats, which eat it during the summer in Alaska, as well as Sitka black-tailed deer and hoary marmots.

However, species such as the White-tailed ptarmigan, hoary marmots, and pikas remain in high elevations of the Cascades year round left only to go to patchy and scattered alpine vegetation.

Smaller animals found in the Missions include hoary marmots, yellow-bellied marmots, snowshoe rabbit, pica, chipmunk, squirrel, porcupine, muskrat, badger, skunk, beaver, marten, weasel, and mink.

Hoary marmots frequently sun themselves on rocks, spending as much as 44% of their time in the morning doing so, although they will shelter in their burrows or otherwise seek shade in especially warm weather.

Many animals feed on the fruits, including mammals such as polar bears and other bears, meadow voles, red-backed voles, western heather voles, Dall's sheep, and sometimes caribou and hoary marmots.

The smaller mammals include wolverines, beavers, lynx, porcupines, marten, river otters, red fox, coyote, ground and flying squirrels, hoary marmots, weasels, snowshoe hares, several species of voles and mice, and collared pikas.

In the 1860s British Naval surveyors named the mountain "London Mountain," but it soon garnered the nickname "Whistler" because of the shrill whistle made by the Western Hoary Marmots who lived among the rocks.

Wildlife in the park includes elk, caribou, moose, mule deer, white-tailed deer, mountain goats, bighorn sheep, grizzly bears, black bears, coyotes, beavers, Rocky Mountain pikas, hoary marmots, grey wolves, mountain lions, and wolverines.

It is one of the pleasures of Whistler - the name is taken from the whistling sound made by the hoary marmots that make their home on the mountain - that there is a glacier or a snow bowl or a gutsucker chute for every talent, or lack of it.

Solution to Puzzle No. 6: "From Hang Gliding to Hoary Marmots" Last week, we challenged you to get from this page on hang gliding to this page featuring hoary marmots in six links or less.

Based on genetic analyses, the closest relatives of the Vancouver Island Marmot are the Hoary Marmot (Marmota caligata) and the Olympic Marmot (Marmota olympus).