I dont know if I'd call 'my' birds wild anymore..although the species I'm referring to dont tend to physically interact with humans. We have 2 famies of blue fairy wrens where I am...one of the females has a liking for me as she understands I fill those fresh cool bowls of water in summer for them..I make it never gets hot where they cant drink it on those 36 to 43C days etc. Sometimes I can be sitting having a coffee and she lands on my knee for a chat...I never touch her..we just have a chat and I always check whats going on with the water when she goes again.... We've got local magpies who love us as well..I made a lot of suitable bowls that sit on the ground..from concrete ..sealed properly and the birds that wont drink from higher containers dont have to go out in the heat to access water.

I wonder if she was licking the salt off of your skin? Beautiful experience, in a beautiful place. ♥️

Only for the salt

How beautiful to have a new friend!

My ferret does this to me all the time. Watching that happen with a wild animal was so cute

Beat me to it. I don't have to watch the video. Animals desire salt, which is why many hunters will put out "salt licks" to attract certain prey. Sweaty hiker = salt deposits on skin. it's that simple.

He musta been the sweatiest from the hike. Maybe so much she smelt it

This is true. It’s the salt. And he don’t wear deodorant or antiperspirant or something (stinky)

That was my thought, too. Noticed your post after I said basically the same thing. Lol.

Nice that this worked out, she didnt bite and he stayed calm. Most people shouldn't try this though

delightful?

A very cute moment!!!

🤣❣️

@@amancalleddave.3547 you figured out what they meant from what they wrote, that's obvious. So why correct them?

@@amancalleddave.3547 I mistyped delightful - I still mean it.

hahahaha as opposed to licking humans faces..... hahahah

Ehh they sort of did feed it salt.

They probably fed it off camera, knowing humans. But I wanna think the same as you, so we can just hope they didn’t.

uhhh, you mean the marmot that walked up and started licking a guy for many minutes? yeah it'd be a real problem if such a creature became accustomed to humans

The reason this marmot is so unfearful of humans is precisely because humans feed them all the time.

Yes

Marmots used to lick and then steal my backpack pads, croakiest sunglasses keeper And anything else that came into contact with my skin if I was perspiring. We decided that they liked the salt. Wondering if that’s the case here too.

@@r.williamcomm7693 did you not watch the video? 🤔

Most hikers are the nicest people you could come across I doubt anyone will harm it

@@r.williamcomm7693 lmfao yeah humans are salt licks 😆

Indeed and it paid off for her.

The animal has experience many kind humans before and does not fear them. Human belong to the family of animals. Most fear us because of our history with them. That fear is in their DNA. Sad but true.

That’s because it’s been fed by humans and lost its fear. Bad news, not only unhealthy for it but have you ever experienced what a marmot can do to your car nonetheless your face? I will never hurt them regardless but that’s why we should leave wildlife wild.

I don't think there are many marmots in parking lots.

Probably a common hiking spot so the marmot is more used to humans. In the Rockies if you go to a super popular hiking spot the marmots will get much closer to you, but if you go to a more desolate area they will hide.

Yes it definitely seems like there aren’t many predators in that area and the wildlife just all live harmoniously together. What a beautiful area, I hope too many humans don’t come and ruin it for them with trash and trying to catch the animals

The irony is we should (I know I do...was taught from a young child) be so grateful, gracious and humble in knowing that, while we are indeed, a part of nature we are truly not NEEDED in nature. (My opinion, of course). What a fantastic experience! C'est tres bon!

@@bobcaygeon6799 That is something we presume..but in fact I suspect like each and everything in nature, we too serve our purpose and are a necessary aspect of nature.

@@kimlersue Well, you've given me a sense of insight I will consider further. Thx!

@@bobcaygeon6799 Thankss for your open mind.

@@bobcaygeon6799 I actually believe that we're here to be good stewards of animals and plants

Agreed. That was a beautiful to put it

So lovely..

This is getting really boooring! Around 109 people now in this thread have mentioned that the marmot was licking the man to get salt from his sweat.. Most have used some kind of exclamation..!!!... as if they are the 1 and only person in the know, revealing it to all the other "idiots.." ... But clearly not 1 of them read other comments & saw hiw many people had already said this... 🥱🥱 Nor did they listen to the video, where the man getting licked SAID THIS HIMSELF... This whole comment section is full of Karens who just came to bully & say patronising things to other people... Boring, boring people.. Beautiful marmot. .

@@eyesopen-paintbrush-full298 you certainly are a positive rat of sunshine aren't you.

​@@eyesopen-paintbrush-full298 Hey, you alright?

@@user-fs5ji1tv6l climate change. Warming of the planet. Less snow and ice.

@@TG-bz3wu some people do believe nonsense!

@@TG-bz3wu lmfao look at the "learning" playlist of ​1960ARC saying that climate change is nonsense. It is full of videos of conspiracy theories about spells, flat earth, 9/11 truthers, cults, witchcraft, satanism, even doubting autism existing. They proved their own statement...

Placing a salt or mineral block out there like they give horses may help. Will need a new one now and then

@@1960ARC regardless of WHY you think it's happening, it IS happening indisputable. Educate yourself.

🥰🕊 Trust and respect for each other. Mother Nature's great work in action.✌🏼

omg I love meerkats, I probably would have cried of joy

and a shower for the aroma

@@suraangel6956 I'm not gonna lie. I was pretty close :)

Yeah that famous country Africa lol. That's like the man from the video saying he encountered this Marmot in Europe. Are you that racist that you don't even remember what country you were actually in?

The French language is so beautiful. It sounds so nice and relaxing

@@juniorsir9521 indeed.

I just get the underside of the tongue licks 😂 thank you sir but I’d prefer you keep your left overs, horses are so cute but nasty babies.

I was about to say the same thing; when I was younger I had a pony and he would lick the sweat off my arm (we bought him salt blocks) but when I'd wash the saliva off and come back he'd get grumpy that there was no salt on my arms so he'd start nipping haha

@@pinkiepie6880 aww

Yeah. I wouldn't call the time I nearly got my face tore off by a mountain lion "amazing". That shit was painful and I'd look like a fantasy orc warlord if I was painted green now.

Looks like she hit a goldmine

@@smithsmith1956 that’s amazing!

@@revanthsurapaneni6258 lol wtf?

@@tonelico_thesavior 😅

Or perhaps the marmot was a pet they used for a cool video and to make some dough. Maybe? I cant imagine that a marmot would not have the instincts to be afraid of a much larger mammal. Or it just really, really, really needed some salt.

This marmot was probably used to getting food from people as well unfortunately. People don't realize that the rodents get pretty aggressive after a while. People can be bitten and packs can be torn into. Please people let them stay wild and don't feed them.

@@j.d.9586 Wow thats crazy, Im not letting them get in my tent.

How do you know this what are your sources

Normally the instinct of an animal is to run from a human cause humans are vicious and brutal, humans normally don't come around most likely

Those kinds of treasures need to be protected

Wait until the bear is hungry :-)

Looks like Switzerland. It's always so heavenly beautiful there!

Animals were all at peace with Humanity until we started waging war on them. Some animals still don’t know of our guilt. Let’s keep it that way by being nice.

@@audionmusic2787. Nature doesn’t do nice. Have you ever taken to trouble to look at how our ancestors lived? There were leopards that had fangs that were precisely the right size to pearce the neck just below the skull. Just made to eat us. Good luck in fluffy world.

🤗💝🥰

Animals know

I hope things got better for you, humans can be some of the worst animals on planet earth.

Angels come in all forms. Even Tabby. 😊

There is your spirit guide right there 🥰🥰🥰

I am so sorry that you were bullied in school, I am send you a kiss on the forehead.

Ok Karen

@@ccptube3468 Shhhh

Tell that to the e vil WEF globalists committing jennyside on us all 👿👺

Do you pay for animals to be slaughtered?

@@shanemous2451 I knew a man with 4 sons, the mother had died. He sold alcohol in a dry county, worked a little in a couple of shops on the property we maintained, AND he would go hunt up a "groundhog" or two (marmots) and cook them up for his boys, so they could eat. His parents died in the East Ky. mountains and he and his brother(s?) raised themselves. He had a front tooth that had come out and he kept it in his jaw, although it would go up and down when he talked, nearly falling out all the time. Poverty means you kill animals yourself to eat. 😐

It is a rodent.

@johnnycage3881 it's fuzzy hill dog :)

@@johnnycage3881 so are we

Hill dawggyyyy

Breaking News: Man contracts bubonic plague after marmot licks his face.

It's after the salt, not the love.

@@stepaushi 2:12 it was a little goodbye hug, that final paused moment on his nose wasn't for salt. It was beautiful. I came to see in comments if anyone else noticed tbh.

@@mackash Okay, could be!

Hitler treated his dogs better than he treated his own friends. I have seen EVIL people be very kind to animals. We Humans are also 100% animals. A person should be especially judged by how they treat those who can do nothing for them.

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@newmankidman5763those that can do nothing for them….like a marmot in the top of a mountain at the end of a hike?

@@Lucaz99, if you say so.

@@newmankidman5763 'A person should be especially judged by how they treat those who can do nothing for them.' Like the thousands of social media 'influencers' who go round helping the disadvantaged? Or the charity bosses who send aid to foreign countries? $$$$$$$ In those two groups alone you'll find some of the worst people in the world.

​@@newmankidman5763"if you say so" as if you didn't just bring up Hitler out of nowhere on a totally unrelated topic

Feeding the animals is why they came up in the first place. Please don't feed wild animals let them stay wild. They usually become more and more bold and people end up getting bitten.

@@beautifulaspen6583 screw people lol, I am an animal and whatever's good enough for me is good enough for them too! You puny Human, stop trying to control everything and let things be that are.

@@beautifulaspen6583 Your comment is generally true, but should be equally applied to this dude who offered up the salts from his face.

@@Muskieangler basically yea he still fed her

@@Muskieangler except that's not being honest Marshmallows vs salt. Pneus naturally occuring and good for the groundhog and the interaction happened naturally. While one is none of those things. Apples aren't oranges.

Same here.

Yeah they look like North American groundhogs

Me too!!!♥️♥️♥️♥️

Yeah until the wolves and bears pull up

Me three! 🥰🥰

Sounds like the hookers I see on the streetcorner

I’ve seen them there too!

In Seattle I have squirrels 🐿 do this to me

...and your response is delightfully succinct.

It was most likely the salt on your skin you became a huge salt cowlick to her 😂

When he got home, she was in the back seat wairing for a second lick.

You know damn well they don't season their food 🙄

She lives in a beautiful spot and seems to appreciate the visitors. Very lovely. Blessings and kindest regards David from Australia 🌏 🙄☝️

I've watched a red hawk swoop down and take a marmot.

@@zzz7zzz9 sweet

The Marmot was expecting a French kiss

He did not know, he hoped or expected.

I hope you're not implying your ignorance of how evil (or tolerant/passive of it) humanity is, specially men all thought out history and to this day.

@@aliensarerealttsa6198 Why do you blame men for everything.

@@aryanbaviskar4127 just ignore them. They’re looking to start an argument

Their lowland cousins are more skittish in my experience. Maybe its because groundhogs are a little smaller. Smaller means easier food for hawks or foxes. Marmots are often friendly for whatever reason. They like to grind their teeth on rocks. I have had them come lick my leg.

Yeah, it makes me wonder if he was someone's pet at one time. Or a rescue that was cared for and released back into the wild. Because it definitely seems like this animal is familiar with people and feels safe around them.

@@mirzamay It was fed by other hikers.....

No sweet, sweat yes, and salty 😁

same here, unexpected feed 😅

The marmot is trying to get the salt that collects on your skin from the mans sweat. It happens all the time with a lot of different animals.

Salt

@@marcosvazquez5912 lol Salt Ummmmmm ok, well if I ever visit a place like that, I hope that I am salty enough lol 😂

@@shawnkincheloesr5192 animals need the nutrients in salt to be healthy. You can buy "salt licks" for rabbits, deer, goats, cows, etc.. & animals will hunt down natural salt deposits, too.. including humans sometimes!

@@Montina_Paullin I honestly never knew this, but I have never seen this behavior before. I mean, sure & I’ve seen animals attack humans before, but to simply lick the salt off of a humans face 🥰 that is just too cute, but I haven’t seen that before & the raccoons or possums in my area would not try that and the deers in my area don’t even come close to us humans 😳 or the grounds hogs or rabbits

Sure you have. They are groundhogs.

@@BellefontePerson they are similar but are two different species of rodents

He needed a bath lol

Sweat typically has about 1,000 mg sodium per liter.

It's an honour to be in their presence, I think what happened to this hiker is bordering on assalt!

Same here! And I’m envious of your fox experience! :)

Spoiler alert, it's been fed before...