So, global warming has actually been good for the yellow-bellied marmot, and here’s why:

The marmot eats and eats before settling in for hibernation, only to be awakened early by warm weather, long before it’s burned off all those Clif bars. Fatter marmots beget more marmots than scrawny marmots. Therefore, there are three times more marmots in the Colorado Rockies than there were 10 years ago, marmot researcher Daniel Blumstein told NPR in 2010, and they’re about a pound heavier than they were 30 years ago.

In other news, marmots can be “grumpy with each other,” Blumstein told Science News, which is adorable because, I mean, they’re marmots. A study of a community of marmots showed that marmots who get bullied by other marmots were probably born to mom and dad marmots who also endured the same type of bullying. It’s genetic, y’all — the being bullied by marmots.

An overweight marmot searches out that other marmot he sometimes likes to bully. (iStockphoto/Thinkstock)

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