This guy posed for me on a rock at Yosemite. Is he a marmot?
-- Badtux the Wildlife Penguin
aaaaand... his OTHER side:
PS: I was zoomed all the way in with a 12x telephoto lense. So I wasn't as close to him as it looks!
1 day ago
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
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He's delicious...
ReplyDeleteTux my apology, my new site is http://timsscaredstiff.com
I happened to check my old site and you made a comment there.
I have to use my old blogger gmail thing to comment on yours.
I'm using word press for god only knows why..
I tried open ID with yours and was unable to do it.
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ReplyDeleteIt most certainly is. Nick name is a whistle pig which is it's warning cry. The loudest whistle damn near in the world. You may have heard it.
ReplyDeleteYou can get close to one here .
I like these guys more and more even though they cause a bit of trouble with their burrowing.
No sir, that there is a land beaver.
ReplyDeleteI'm so disoriented now that the World Cup's over.
The World Cup? Is that the experiment in gravitational modification encompassing a scientific experiment called the "ball" where if any two players approach the "ball", gravity is modified so they suddenly fall over as if both had slammed into a brick wall, and if any player successfully gets a kick on goal, gravity is modified so that it shoots 20 feet above the goal? :-).
ReplyDelete- Badtux the Snarky Penguin
He's very handsome. And looks like he gave you his good side, too.
ReplyDeleteHe gave me his good side only because I took like a bajillion photos of the rascal trying to get him at all. Of all those photos, three (3) actually came out decent. I put his other side up there now, that's the second one. The third one is just another one of him on that rock (the first one, basically).
ReplyDeleteI was hiking up a steep switchbacked slope, and he was heading straight upslope (ignoring the switchbacks). So he'd head up, stand on a rock, watch me go away from him (up the switchback), and then suddenly the switchback would switch the other way and I'd be coming *toward* him again. Then he would head uphill again, until I switched back and was headed back towards him *again*. Finally he headed off into that boulder field where the first photo was taken, and after I took his photo a couple of times, he flopped off the boulder and disappeared from sight.
- Badtux the Hiking Penguin
Based on my recollection of hiking in the Rockies for many summers in my younger days, I would say yes, that's a marmot.
ReplyDeleteTux, that's not a marmot -- call Donald Trump and tell him you found the toupee he lost!
ReplyDeleteDefinitely a marmot. Great creatures. I had a den of them near my office at a ski area years ago and watching the young marmots grow up was great fun.
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