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The similarly sized, but more social, prairie dog is not classified in the genus Marmota but in the related genus Cynomys. Marmots typically live in burrows (often within rockpiles, particularly in the case of the yellow-bellied marmot), and hibernate there through the winter. Most marmots are highly social and use loud whistles to communicate with one another, especially when alarmed. Marmots mainly eat greens and many types of grasses, berries, lichens, mosses, roots, and flowers.
The energy for hibernation is stored as fat predominantly in white adipose tissue. To increase the energy of these reserves (Geiser et al. 1990; Florant 1998), the alpine marmotâs diet, which is primarily herbivorous, is high in foods rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids.