Marmots

I am also worried about the use of animals in literature just as I worry about the Polar Bears and Beavers, the Marmots and Iguanas, the parade of animals appearing in all manner of advertising, staring out at us from the floating nether worlds they are often photographed in, as if they had no firm ground to stand on as they ply us with products, services, offers of exotic, distant lands.

The Mountain, Some Feathers, Strong Looking and Swoops Lemon Hound 2009

"Revenge of the Space Marmots from Mars" is all over the internet.

STILL everywhere! Walter Jon Williams 2008

Marmots, grouse and thinly scattered herds of wild ungulates co-occur here with increasing numbers of domestic livestock.

Qilian Mountains subalpine meadows 2008

When space marmots swarm a planet they eat everyone or everything's brains. thus all technological civilization are either dead, brainless or smart enough not to wave a giant space marmot sign, Welcome Space Marmots!

In Washington Walter Jon Williams 2008

Amid the scenic springtime beauty of the wild Rockies, we meet a colony of Yellow-bellied Marmots waking from winter hibernation.

Marty Stouffer's Wild America - Marmet Mountain William Harryman 2007

Marmots and a sort of little prairie dog continued plentiful, but there was no other life.

The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse Hamlin Garland 1900

Marmots and prairie hares (_Lepus campestris_) -- often called rabbits by the pioneers, who also named the marmots "wood-chucks" -- frolicked in the herbage, and formed the principal prey of the numerous rattlesnakes.

Pioneers in Canada Harry Hamilton Johnston 1892

Marmots, glacier fleas (spring-tails, not true fleas), admirable trout, and burbot (the fresh-water cod, called "lote" in French), outrageous wood-gnats, which English people call by a Portuguese name as soon as they are on the Continent, and singing birds (usually one is too late in the season to hear them) were our zoological accompaniment.

More Science From an Easy Chair 1888

In this group we include not only Rats, but a great many other small rodents, or gnawers, such as Mice, Marmots, Lemmings, Hamsters,

Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys Mayne Reid 1850

The _Marmots_ are, perhaps, the most interesting of the small rodents.

Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys Mayne Reid 1850