Two mountain marmots appeared separately in San Francisco and Antioch in September after apparently hitching rides in vehicles; 18 days later, rescuers released both animals nearly 7,800 feet up near Lake Tahoe
Both animals were unharmed but appeared confused in the urban environment. (Representational photo: Pixabay) Yellow-bellied marmots usually live high in the mountains, but two of the large rodents recently turned up far from their usual habitat in California’s San Francisco Bay Area. One was found in San Francisco’s Mission District on September 5, while another…