Marmota monax

Woodchuck, Marmota monax From flyash landfill vicinity Adults ... 

The dominance status of an individual can be predicted by its scent-marking rate before social interactions take place Woodchucks Marmota monax) scent mark with their oral glands. When presented with isolated secretion of the oral gland of other woodchucks, future subordinates marked the scent of future dominant animals more often than vice versa (Hebert and Barette, 1989). 

Woodchuck Marmota monax Oral angle glands Ouellet and Perron, 1988... 

Meier, P. T. (1991). Response of adult woodchucks Marmota monax) to oral-gland scents. 

Ouellet, J. P. and Perron, J. (1988). Scent-marking behavior by woodchucks Marmota monax). Journal of Mammalogy 69,365-368. 

The most familiar marmot to most North Americans is the woodchuck or groundhog Marmota monax), a widespread and common species of open woodlands, prairies, roadsides, and the edges of cultivated fields. The woodchuck is a relatively large, reddish or brownie, black-footed marmot, with animals typically weighing about 7-13 lb... 

E456 Lasky, F.D., Parell, B. and Snyder, R. (1988). Use of a Kodak Ektachem DT analyzer to monitor chemical changes in marmota monax infected with woodchuck hepatitis virus. Clin. Chem. 34, 1196, Abstr. 213. 

Liu, R.H., Baldwin, B., Tennant, B.C., Hotchkiss, J.H. (1991). Elevated formation of nitrate and N-nitrosodimethylamine in woodchucks (Marmota monax) associated with chronic woodchuck hepatitis vims infection. Cancer Res. 51, 3925-3929. 

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