The climate crisis has intensified the rodents' bloodthirsty fighting. From a chalet high on the French-Italian border, scientists are documenting their battlesPhotographs by Gaspard DussertThe ecologist Christophe Bonenfant strides down the mountainside, a metal cage strapped to his back. Inside, a hessian bag twitches and squirms. His cargo is 4kg of befuddled alpine marmot, a mountain rodent admired by hikers, immortalised by Goethe and Beethoven, and the star of a beloved French ad for Milka chocolate.The creatures' cuddly reputation, however, belies a vicious reality. The life of an alpine marmot is a never-ending bloody battle for dominance. They are, Bonenfant's colleague Rébecca Garcia says, "mega-violent". And now the climate crisis is making their fight for survival in the Alps more deadly than ever. Continue reading...
They kill their own parents, children and neighbours. Now life is even worse for the vicious alpine marmot
28. září 2023 12:30
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Zdroj: The Guardian