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Ecosystem Role: There are some ecological significance associated with them for instance they turn the soil when digging and providing food for other animals such as eagles and coyotes.

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Indicator Species: They can be used to measure shift in environmental conditions since their occurrence or absence can be signs of change in environmental conditions.

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Hibernation Behavior: These animals sleep for up as much as eight months in a year and hence are advantageous in researching about hibernation and the impacts on physiology.

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Biodiversity Importance: They play the role of bio-diversity thus assist in sustaining the ecosystem of different species in an area.

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Climate Change Sentinels: Being Climatic affected species, therefore, variations in the frisk and population of can explain the impacts of Climate change

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Human-Wildlife Interaction: Rock Chucks are known to inhabit areas close to human activities hence resulting to positive contact as well as negative interactions.

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Agricultural Impact: It is at times a pest crop that defoliates and thus an interesting species to farmers and agricultural scientists.