Ground Squirrels And Marmots

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Hirsch:
Starting With Hirsch Is The Alpine Marmot, Which Is Very Common In Rocky And High Elevation Areas Of Southern Germany. It Would Be A Nice Little Edition To The Rocky And Forested Western Side Of The Map.

Layton Lakes:
Next Is Layton With The Olympic Marmot And Thirteen-Lined Ground Squirrel. Both Are Common Species Throughout Eastern Washington And Southern British Coulumbia, And While They Cannot Be Hunted In Washington, They’d Make A Pretty Good Edition To The Less Swampy Areas Of The Reseve.

Vurhonga Savanna:
The 2 Species That Would Be Coming To Vurhonga Are The Cape Ground Squirrel (Found All Over The Map Except For The Plateau) And The Mountain Ground Squirrel (Found On The Plateau).

Yukon Valley:
The 2 Released Species On This Map Would The Hoary Marmot And The Woodchuck, Both Found Across The Entire Map.

Cuatro Colinas:
The Alpine Marmot Would Also Be On This Map, As They Have Been Introduced Into Several Mountain Ranges Throughout Spain. They’d Be Found In The Mountains.

Silver Ridge Peaks:
I Can Think Of 4 Species That Would Be On This Map. These Are The Yellow Bellied Marmot, Found In Mountain Goat Territory, The White-Tailed Antelope Squirrel, Found Throughout Open Areas On The Map, The Golden Mantled Ground Squirrel, Found In Open Areas Around The Map, And The Gunnisons Prairie Dog, Found In The Plains.

Rancho Del Arroyo:
The Species Here Would Be The Harris’s Antelope Squirrel, Which Would Not Have Burrows and Could Be Found In Open Areas In And Around The Desert.

Mississippi:
The Species Here Would Also Be The Woodchuck, Found Across The Map.

New England Mountains:
The Species Here Would Also Be The Woodchuck, Found Across The Map.

This Would Not Only Take A Long Time, But Is Very Much Not Something That Is Required, Simply Something I’d Love To See.

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Here is what I have to say regarding what looks like a generally good idea

Olympic Marmot: Layton Lakes seems a bit too far east for them (they do live on the Olympic Peninsula after all). The Yellow-bellied Marmot would be the better choice

Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel: They are only found east of the Rocky Mountains. The Columbian Ground Squirrel is a better alternative species (they are at least found on the west side of the Rockies)

Mountain Ground Squirrel: From what I could find on this species, they seem to mainly live in Namibia and Angola with a very small population in South Africa (it shares that in common with the Hartmann’s Mountain Zebra)
||(For an alternative species the only one I have is the Rock Hyrax, which despite appearances is a distant
relative of the elephants)||

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I Have Thirteen Lined Ground Squirrels Not Far From Me, And I Live In The Rockies.

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Here are some range maps I saw online

They also don’t show up on any list regarding the species found in Washington nor Oregon (there are clues in game that indicate Layton is a US map)

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While I Agree That Thirteen Lined Hround Squirrels Shouldn’t Be On Layton, Olympic Marmots Should, Since Their Range Is Wholly Within Washington, And Their Range Is Only Slightly Off Of Where Layton Is Set.

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It should be noted that 90% of the Olympic Marmot’s habitat is within Olympic National Park and there seems to be some hints that the Olympic Marmot are off limits to hunting anyways

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They Are Off Limits To Hunting, But So Are European Bison In All Places Except For Bulgaria, And Black Bears In Mississippi, And Siberian Musk Deer In Russia, And Plains Bison In Colorado. There’s A Lot Of Species That Are Off Limits To Hunting, Yet You Can Still Hunt Them In Game.

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You can hunt them in Sweden and some Asian steppe countries as well!