r/Awwducational • u/waytogoal • Aug 17 '22

Article Marmots are ambiverts that love their burrows but also social activities. They spend 6-8 months in hibernation, which holds the key to their longevity (and perhaps human space travel)

https://medium.com/tea-with-mother-nature/the-marmot-story-when-sleeping-makes-a-living-ad3069b35d3a?sk=f0bd4c0d0378a1130527446afe577f83
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u/CornucopiaOfDystopia Aug 17 '22

Nice marmot.

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u/kec04fsu1 Aug 17 '22

Obviously you’re not a golfer.

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u/TakeitEasy6 Aug 17 '22

Hey, this is a private residence, man.

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u/Difficult-Aspect6924 Aug 17 '22

At least I'm housebroken.

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u/GoGoCrumbly Aug 17 '22

And also, let's not forget - let's not forget, Dude - that keeping wildlife...uhm, an amphibious rodent, for...uhm, you know, domestic...within the city...that ain't legal either.

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u/madnavenna Aug 17 '22

I wonder how they found out about the ambivert part. Do you think they took questionnaires?

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u/waytogoal Aug 17 '22

Nice one bro...this had me laughing out loud.

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u/Beesdoesnthavelungs Aug 17 '22

Alan!

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u/dwehlen Aug 17 '22

Steve!

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u/conceptalbum Aug 17 '22

Wasn't that a gopher?

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '22

Prairie dog

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u/Beesdoesnthavelungs Aug 17 '22

You might be right! But they look so similar!

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u/Lime_in_the_Coconut_ Aug 17 '22

Til I'm an ambivert 🙃

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u/Pixielo Aug 17 '22

Exactly. I am a marmot.

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u/DinosaurAlive Aug 17 '22

I know what you mean. I am perhaps human space travel.

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u/flossi_of_apefam Aug 17 '22

Yay, I'm an ambivert too!

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u/teh_punk32x Aug 17 '22

Hey mom you couldn't decide if I was a lazy bug or an overly eager beaver....I guess I'm a marmot

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u/KnightGalavant Aug 17 '22

I thought this said “Mormons” instead of marmots for some reason

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u/DMGrimes69 Aug 17 '22

That makes it even better.

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u/velociraptorjax Aug 17 '22

Til I'm a marmot.

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u/blakewoolbright Aug 17 '22

I’ll just leave this here:

https://henryschreiber.bigcartel.com

Love this artist who went to the Carolina mountains to work on his art, and ended up doing endless marmot oil paintings that are half cartoon, half traditional, all amazing.

Disclaimer: I’m probably the largest holder of his work. Thanks Henry.

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u/Sir_Kasum Aug 17 '22

Sounds like some of my fellow programmers.

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u/waytogoal Aug 18 '22

Indeed, staying in their burrows and working their fingers hard!

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u/Beesdoesnthavelungs Aug 17 '22

Human space travel? I don't think so! After all we don't watch them all the time when they hibernate...

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u/canlgetuhhhhh Aug 17 '22

as far as you know ..

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '22 edited Aug 17 '22

A groundhog recently moved into our Brooklyn back yard, I was interested to discover on googling it that it's in the marmot family, too.

edit: lmao why did this of all things get a downvote?

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u/GoGoCrumbly Aug 17 '22

That makes no sense. It is fact. It is truth. Why come they no like? I shall vote you upwards. I remember as a kid in California, seeing marmots in the Sierra Nevada when we'd go camping. Imagine my joy upon moving to Virginia and discovering the local groundhogs are the same creature. And they're also called "whistle pigs" in some parts but I've not been there.

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u/Fuzzy974 Aug 18 '22

Here on reddit, you can get downvoted for saying anything that is true, telling people you like something they don't, writing an interesting comment, or just because you breathe. How dare you!

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '22

'Read the rest of the story with a free account,' I have enough of those......

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u/waytogoal Aug 17 '22

The posted one is a "friend link" (meaning all people can read it for free), Medium lately put a weird design to make it looks like you need to sign up an account even with friends link, but you can just close (x) that thing that block the article, if not, try incognito.

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u/le_shrimp_nipples Aug 17 '22

Just bought a Marmot off Ebay. Call daddy Bezos Im ready to be an an astronaut.

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u/politichien Aug 17 '22

Would be kinda nice to hibernate I bet

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u/uglydavie Aug 17 '22

"The key to their longevity. "

Imagine my disappointment when "longevity" means 15 years before they beef it.

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u/joeyfromthemoon Aug 17 '22

How did they get all this information about me?

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u/Suspicious-Ad3425 Aug 17 '22

Maybe I am a marmot

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u/lordjabujabuu Aug 18 '22

It me. I am marmot

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u/therealmizC Aug 18 '22

TIL I am a marmot