Fattening Up For Winter

A head-on view of a hoary marmot shows how much fat it has put on while eating in a mountain meadow on the Skyline Trail in Mount Rainier National Park on September 23, 2014. Original: _7D_6311.CR2

A hoary marmot feasts in a mountain meadow on a cold rainy day in the fall. Unlike the pikas they share their habitat with, they spend most of the year in hibernation and need to put on plenty of fat reserves to make it through the long winters at Mount Rainier.

📷: Canon 7D | Canon 500mm | Canon 1.4X
🗓️: September 23, 2014

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