marmots in English

noun
1
a heavily built, gregarious, burrowing rodent of both Eurasia and North America, typically living in mountainous country.
The Rodentia also includes beavers, muskrats, porcupines, woodchucks, chipmunks, squirrels, prairie dogs, marmots , chinchillas, voles, lemmings, and many others.

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1. And then something happened to disturb the marmots.

2. Visitors also can see coyotes, chipmunks, raccoons, marmots and vole.

3. William didn't know why the fleas left the marmots for the rats.

4. In marmots, large ground-dwelling squirrels, for example, adult males are territorial and aggressive.

5. Because unlike the marmots, the rats had no resistance to the disease that the fleas carried.

6. Yellow-Bellied marmots like me make our homes in the mountains of the western United States and Canada

7. A study of a social network of yellow-bellied marmots finds a genetic influence on being the recipient in negative interactions.

8. The study, in yellow-bellied marmots, gives the first look beyond people at what facets of social relationships might have genetic components, says coauthor Daniel Blumstein of UCLA.

9. Yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventris) might not be as cowardly as their name suggests. While most of the world lives in fear of climate change, these rodents embrace it.

10. Just call me Rock Chuck! Specifically, in our study eagles ate fewer Yellow-Bellied Marmots (27.6 versus 40.3%), Chukar Partridge (4.4 versus 11.7%), and Blue Grouse (Dendragapus obscurus) (2.2 versus 13.0%).