Marmota marmota Distribution. Alps, Carpathians, Pyrenees, Tatra mountains of Europe.
Alpine marmots live in grazed sub-alpine pastures and higher elevation alpine regions.
Like many other Old World marmots, alpine marmots live in family groups where there is a breeding pair and offspring from previous years. Older male offspring have been shown to help thermoregulate younger siblings during the cold alpine winters. Occasionally sons may mate with their mothers. About half the adult females will breed in a given year. Litter sizes are small, about two and a half pups.