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Two giant mountain marmots mysteriously appear in the Bay Area
Yellow-bellied marmots belong high in the mountains, not San Francisco neighborhoods—and officials suspect they may have hitchhiked down in car engines.
Two yellow-bellied marmots were rescued in the San Francisco Bay Area far below their normal alpine habitat.
Why this is wild
Wildlife officials suspect the chunky mountain rodents may have ridden down from the Sierra Nevada in the engine compartments of vehicles.
The bigger thing hiding underneath
Marmots sometimes crawl into warm machinery or vehicles, which creates a bizarre pathway for wildlife to appear hundreds of miles outside its expected habitat.