The seasonally active species of ground squirrel, the Alpine marmot, is abundant and tame in the Queyras Alps, Hautes-Alpes, France, where it spends the summer voraciously eating vegetable matter in preparation for winter hibernation.
An Alpine marmot (Marmota marmota) sits alert in an Alpine pasture, Molines-en-Queyras, Hautes-Alpes, France.