That's what happens when you eat too much fish. Picture taken in the frigid waters off the coast of the Kenai peninsula, Alaska.This little thing here is called a marmot. Harding Icefield trail, Alaska.
Sea Otter. Darned thing is leading the life i want.
And here's some seals and sunny snow-capped mountains and all that jazz.
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Weird coincidence. I was reading a book about Mongolia (ok it was about Genghis Khan) just last night where there is a gory description of how marmots are cooked out on the wild steppes. And I was wondering what the heck a marmot looks like.
Mala
mala: Actually, the marmot in the picture is Marmota Broweri - the Alaskan Marmot, while the marmots the Mongols were eating were most likely either Bobak Marmots (Marmota Bobak) or Menzbier's Marmots (Marmota Menzbieri), which would have looked very different from the marmot in the picture. To see what the Bobak Marmot looks like, see here:
http://www.marmotburrow.ucla.edu/bobak.html
Lovely pics. and welcome back.
-Anusha
Falstaff: OK that was scary :-)
Heh heh: Please move to Alaska. Have my trip there almost planned. Just need place to crash.
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