Unusual behaviour of marmots in conditions of prosecution [Comportement inhabituel de marmottes en conditions de poursuite].

Résumé

The unique settlement of marmots with unusual behaviour and a way o life is revealed us in territory of area Topkinsky of the Kemerovo area. Earlier by poachers for one season about 50 individuals were extracted. In the afternoon people have ceased to mark marmots. Us a fact in evidence of displacement of their activity for nighttime. Using the device of night vision, we repeatedly observed marmots during feeding with 12 to 3 one o’clock. Cases of an attack on them by night of badgers, foxes and bearded owl are noted. The sound signal system at night was limited to unitary, short singing. Marmots laid down on the ground, hid, not undertaking attempts to be covered in holes though were from them on distance no more than ten meters. Life cycle at these marmots proceeds only in winter hole. Years and fodder holes (on plain) are not visited any more by marmots. Courses between holes pass at top of a slope among a birch wood under original arches from vegetation which height reaches 1.5 meters in the summer. Hills are not appreciable almost. In this settlement marmots do not visit the next fields of grain crops. The strengthened feed feeding female marmot is noted by a nettle. It eat female marmot and before hibernation. The nettle is a strong stimulator of formation of milk. Thus, marmots in conditions of prosecution are capable to change not only behaviour, but also way of life, for them not typical.