Talk:Marmot

message: We need another page for the popular outfitter, Marmot.
Haizum 20:37, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disambiguation 

message: Moved the marmot skull image into the gallery as it was conflicting with the layout of the page on low-res screens. DevAnubis 12:53, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gallery 

message: thumb|left|200px I took this picture in Princeton, British Columbia. I think it is a woodchuck, but I don't know enough to distinguish it from the Yellow-Bellied Marmot. The animal was about 40 cm tall. Can anyone confirm? Cheers, Kla’quot (talk | contribs) 18:43, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  What kind of marmot is this? 

message: I've seen the woodchuck referred to as "Marmota monax monax", as there are several recognized subspecies. There is a Marmota monax canadensis (northern Maine, northern Vermont), Marmota monax rufescens (extreme western Maine, northern and southwestern New Hampshire, north central and southern Vermont, western Massachusetts, and southwestern Connecticut)), and Marmota monax preblorum (central and southern Maine, central and southeastern New Hampshire, west central Vermont, eastern Massachusetts, northwestern Connecticut, and Rhode Island). There's also the Marmota monax bunkeri, native to Kansas, and Marmota monax ochracea (range unknown).  Timdwilliamson 21:11, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Marmota monax monax 

message: We had some blasting on the hill behind our house for a new condominium, and the developer put a rock wall immediately behind my house on the property line and the marmots have begun to inhabit the holes between the rocks in the rock walls.  My problem is I own a Jack Russel and babysit another and they are raters and the marmots are not only eating all my plants, but they are getting under my deck and are setting up house....and my dogs are going crazy and the neighbours are not happy campers.  Does anyone have any idea of something I can get to deter them from coming in the yard. I would greatly appreciate any help anyone can give me.  They are as cute as the dickens, but in someone elses yard...HELP!!  cherdivine@aol.com  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.67.46.82 (talk) 00:16, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  What deters Marmots from coming in a persons yard 

message: In this link for Arctomys Valley it's stated the name "Arctomys" was conferred because of the large number of hoary marmots in the area; Arctomys Falls and Arctomys Cave were named for the valley.....is this an old name for the species or ??  I was hoping to find clues to IPA pronunciation here, also.Skookum1 (talk) 15:36, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: ''"Arctomys"'' - Hoary marmot?

message: The source for the etymology of "marmot" presented need to be cited. I can't find any evidence for an "Old French marmotan". Certainly the Robert and Larousse make no mention of it. For its part, the OED calls this etymology "disputed". Here's what it has to say on the subject:Old French marmotte is perhaps (as explained in Französisches Etymol. Wörterbuch s.v.) < a Gallo-Romance base *marm- to murmur, to mumble (ultimately imitative in origin; compare probable cognates marmoset and marmot s.v. MARMOSET n.; perhaps related to the Indo-European base of MURMUR v.; compare possible cognates in mar- listed s.v.) + -otte, variant of -ot -OT suffix, and so called probably on account of the sound made by the marmot when eating. Probably cognate with Old French marmotte is Italian marmotta (14th cent.), while Spanish marmota and Portuguese marmota are probably borrowings from French. If this etymology is correct, post-classical Latin mus montanus marmot (5th cent. in Polemius Silvius) probably represents a Latinization of a Gallo-Romance form, and Romansch (Obwalden) murmont probably results from a similar Latinization. Alternatively, the Gallo-Romance forms have elsewhere been explained as arising from post-classical Latin mus montanus, rather than from an independent base. Old High German murmunto, murmuntīn, only attested from Swiss sources, is probably < the Romansch form or a cognate; compare also Middle High German mürmendīn, German regional (Bavaria and Lucerne) Murmentel, Murmetli, and (after Tier animal: see DEER n.) Middle High German murmeltir, murmurtier (14th cent.; German Murmeltier). The German word has derivatives in the Scandinavian languages and in Dutch."Linguoboy (talk) 21:02, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I've removed the etymology section pending investigation. --Danger (talk) 21:28, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology of "marmot" 

message: I removed the image gallery cleanup tag, because I both didn't understand its comment (what is "AN ILLUSTRATED TEXT OF THIS GALLERY"?) and checked that the gallery conforms to WP:IG (the gallery policy). In my opinion, the gallery does conform the WP:IG: it shows exactly one example of each species of marmot, so that it makes "a point of contrast or comparison". It certainly isn't a random collection of images. —hike395 (talk) 04:51, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image gallery cleanup 

message: We need some information about how big these critters are
Msfolly (talk) 11:58, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  How big are they? 

message: Perhaps the first sentence should be changed from "Marmots are generally large ground squirrels" to "marmots are large ground squirrels". The way it currently is stated with "generally" makes it sound like sometimes marmots are not large ground squirrels, but generally they are.ajpruns (talk) 03:43, 3 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  "generally large" 

message: There seems to be a slow edit war over the choice of image for the Infobox. I thought we should bring the issue to this talk page, to hash it out and resolve it. The choices are:
	
===In favor of Tuolumne marmot===
Feel free to add more arguments:
* Featured image
* Natural pose
===In favor of Dana marmot===
Feel free to add more arguments:
* Featured image
* Cuteness
===Discussion===
* Neutral for now: I would like to hear if there are any other arguments. —hike395 (talk) 13:26, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infobox image 

message: * Neutral for now: I would like to hear if there are any other arguments. —hike395 (talk) 13:26, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Discussion

message: Is the Tarbagan marmot the same as the Mongolian marmot mentioned in the Khustain Nuruu National Park? I want to change the Mongolian marmot link, but to the correct one.--DThomsen8 (talk) 00:16, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Mongolian marmot?

message: This article states that the creatures "mostly live in mountainous regions such as..." then included in the list is the "Eurasian steppe," the largest flattest area on the planet. This makes no sense. Does it mean they live in the mountainous regions within the Eurasian steppe (Urals/alti etc.), or aside from the eurasian steppe, they mostly live near mountains? Or is it just completely wrong?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.250.60.87 (talk) 18:33, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: After looking at several of the species, e.g. groundhog and tarbagan marmot, it sounds like they live on any rough grassland, including the majority of the plains in asia and north america. I'll take the reference to mountains out. 176.26.158.220 (talk) 11:55, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Excellent catch! That error has been in the article since 2003. —hike395 (talk) 16:42, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mountainous regions? 

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