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In fact, they're so concerned for the obese little marmot's welfare that they want to replace him with a robot groundhog.

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Contributing to a filling breakfast was the fortunate find of a marmot's cache of spring beauty corms.

The Plains of Passage Auel, Jean M. 1990

They used the bark as a leadway to a trap which they set near a marmot's hole.

The Later Cave-Men Katharine Elizabeth Dopp

He eats the marmot's family and perhaps the marmot himself: curling himself up comfortably in the best part of the drawing-room.

The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 28, April 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Various 1880

The opening of a marmot's burrow is four or five inches in width, and the passage runs downwards in a sloping direction for several feet.

Chatterbox, 1906 Various 1873

The marmot's nest is made at the extreme end of the burrow, and there can be little doubt that the last upward turn of the burrow is meant to keep the nest dry, when, after a heavy storm, rain-water flows into the mouth of the passage.

Chatterbox, 1906 Various 1873

Susan Pinkus, a biologist with Ecojustice, told ctvbc. ca that increased protection of the marmot's critical habitat is important in light of the history of the marmot's decline.

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Pinkus also mentioned a report published by the B.C. government in 2008 that indicated that a significant portion of the marmot's historical habitat is in the hands of privately-owned logging companies.

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The marmot's numbers dipped to only a few dozen animals by the end of the 1990s due to habitat loss.

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Species at Risk Act, which requires them to identify and protect the marmot's critical habitat as part of a recovery plan, Page said.

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