A pair of marmots have mysteriously appeared in busy Bay Area cities, baffling experts as to how the mountain-dwelling rodents turned up there.
Marmots are furry herbivores that generally live burrows in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
The most recent one was discovered in Antioch on Sept. 10 — with officials believing the animal hitched a ride on a car traveling from the mountains to the city.
The previous marmot was discovered on Sept. 4 at the Mission District in San Francisco and is now recovering at an animal rescue center.
“Unbelievably, a second yellow-bellied marmot was spotted (loitering) at a job site in Antioch,” Yggdrasil Urban Wildlife…
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