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media type="custom" key="23978064"media type="custom" key="23976162"My rare animal is a Vancover Island Marmot

This animal is a living thing. It is a living thing because it eats, breaths, grows, reflects, reproduces. and has one or more cels.
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 * Eats**:Vancouver Island marmots are strictly herbivores, feeding on over 50 plantspecies.Huckleberries,kinnikinnick fruit, cow parsnip, asters, tiger lilies, Phylox, sweet peas, and woolly sunflowers. During the spring they feed mainly on grasses and early-blooming flowers, and during the summer they feed on practically anything: flowers, grasses, leaves, and fruit. Water is obtained from the dew collected on the plants they eat.


 * breaths:** Air/oxygen.

VAM's like seen in the picture above are born looking like mini Vancouver Island Marmots. They grow up to be 28 inches, and they are small and squirell like.
 * Grows:**

Reflects: The marmot signals danger by shrill calls.

Habitat: The Vancouver Island marmots habitat are rocky mountian meadows on Vancouver Island

Repruduction: Vancouver island marmots mate onder ground. The vancouver island marmot leave their colony in the spring to find a mate at age 2-3 at the same time they also reach sexual maturity. They start a colony consisting of 1 male and more females. and start breeding in the spring. the female dilivers a litter of 3-4 pups.

Cells: Hair cells. blood cells...

A Vancouver Island Marmot only lives in Canada Vancouver Island B.C. They are the most endangerd speices in Canada.

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**a. Explain the classification of your Living Thing (Kingdom, Phylum,etc)** ======

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**b. What are the features of your LT that cause it to be classified in the way that it is?** ======



Classification of a vancouver Iyland Marmot
 * Kingdom: || Animalia ||
 * Phylum: || Chordata ||
 * Class: || Mammalia ||
 * Order: || Rodentia ||
 * Family: || Sciuridae ||
 * Genus: || //Marmota// ||
 * Subgenus: || //Petromarmota// ||
 * Species: || //**M. vancouverensis**// ||

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