This Animal Sleeps For 8 MONTHS?! 💤

Added: 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]think your alarm clock is loud hey yes that's the real nickname for the marmot the absolute heaviest member of the squirrel family imagine a fluffy 15 pound tree squirrel strip away its tree climbing skills give it heavy duty digging claws and stick it on top of a mountain boulder that is a marmot and when they spot a predator they don't run they scream ah they unleash a piercing high pitched whistle that acts as a localized air raid Siren for the entire colony but here is where their lives get truly unbelievable these guys are the ultimate professional loungers they spend roughly 80% of their entire lives underground and a massive chunk of that is spent in deep true hibernation because Alpine winters are brutal a marmot's entire summer goal is just to become as ridiculously round as physically possible gorging on grasses and flowers until they literally waddle when September hits the whole family huddles up in an insulated underground bunker wraps themselves in hay and shuts down their heart rate drops from over 100 beats per minute down to just 30 they only breathe one to three times a minute and their body temperature plummets to a freezing 41 degrees Fahrenheit they essentially freeze dry themselves to survive until may by the time they wake up in the spring they've burned off half their body weight and immediately start looking for love so if you respect a creature that sleeps for eight months a year and yells at its neighbors smash that like button and share this with your favorite nap champion try living next to a whistle pig