Tag: Fat Marmot Week
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Fat Marmot Week has a winner but the struggle for survival continues
The fattest marmot has been crowned. After three rounds of bracket-style voting and social media buzz, Dawn emerged victorious from Fat Marmot Week, which was hosted for the first time by Colorado’s Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory. Weighing in at 13 pounds, Dawn prevailed over G in a field of eight photographed in their chunky, pre-hibernation…
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Introducing Fat Marmot Week, a celebration of Colorado’s chunky alpine dwellers
Over the past decade, Fat Bear Week has been a viral sensation ー a bracket-style competition in which people vote for the burliest of bears photographed at Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska. Now it’s time for Colorado’s own Fat Marmot Week. Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory is “inviting the public to celebrate one of…