"The thing that struck me was that every once in a while when we catch a baby marmot, they scream," Blumstein said. Screams, like those of the baby marmot, are created when animals hurriedly blow ...

Inner marmot Blumstein had a hunch about nonlinear ... One of Blumstein's favorite scary movie examples: the famous shower scene from Alfred Hitchcock's classic film, "Psycho," with its eerie ...

He says in scary movies, the ear plays a big role in helping to manifest ... His curiosity started after an encounter with a marmot — which is basically a big squirrel. “I was holding a baby marmot ...

Dan Blumstein was gently holding a yellow-bellied marmot pup, conducting research, when he first heard one scream. "I was sort of shocked by this scream and almost dropped this animal," he says.

And this fear response may cut across cultures, as It's Okay to Be Smart host and biologist Joe Hanson notes, "Since nonlinear sounds are found so often in animal alarm calls (namely the marmot ...

One of Blumstein's favorite scary movie examples ... came from Blumstein listening to what he refers to as his own "inner marmot." His years of studying animal behavior helped him draw a ...

Russian media report that there have been previous outbreaks of plague in Altai and that the consumption of infected marmot meat is a known transmission route. The public information campaign in ...

Russian media report that there have been previous outbreaks of plague in Altai and that the consumption of infected marmot meat is a known transmission route. The public information campaign in ...