They're hard to watch. It takes a good 20 minutes of sitting there in silence before their curiosity outweighs their anxiety and they start popping up. It's such a big contrast to our yellow-bellied marmot population that has more or less the same ecological niche. It's a shame we can't do anything to protect their habitat since it's above the treeline and everything up there takes way longer to grow.
They're hard to watch. It takes a good 20 minutes of sitting there in silence before their curiosity outweighs their anxiety and they start popping up. It's such a big contrast to our yellow-bellied marmot population that has more or less the same ecological niche. It's a shame we can't do anything to protect their habitat since it's above the treeline and everything up there takes way longer to grow.