Marmots Are Teaching Their Captive-Bred Friends How to Live in the Wild

Once critically endangered, Vancouver Island marmots are now teaching each other how to recover.

By Jimmy Thomson
Apr 15, 2021 2:00 PMApr 15, 2021 9:15 PM
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Hiking across Vancouver Island’s Mount Washington, marmot keeper Jordyn Alger is perplexed. “I’ve never not seen a marmot on a walk here before,” she says. Despite her radio-tracking equipment, she’s come up short this hot July afternoon. But as Alger speaks, as if to reward her optimism, a tagged wild marmot appears on a log, eyeing us.

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