Biologists at the University of California have launched an OnlyFans account featuring marmots to raise money for their research, according to Cowboy State Daily.
Instead of adult content, the account posts videos of the animals digging burrows, playing, carrying grass and occasionally squabbling with each other.
Funding a 60-year study
The researchers are trying to raise funds to continue a decades-long study of a colony of yellow-bellied marmots, after the 60-year-old project came close to being shut down. One of the biologists said the study costs between $75,000 and $100,000 a year to run.
The report also noted an earlier case in which a wild marmot hitchhiked its way to the Denver Zoo, clinging to a spot above a wheel on a zoo staff truck, and nearly stayed there. Staff did not spot the animal until three hours into the drive.
