The marmot creates these balls by scratching up the earth, and appears to amuse himself--a child's amusement!
On 13 August in Marmot Strait I observed a number of rhinoceros auklets, either singly or in groups of up to 12.
He also saw numerous individuals in Marmot Strait and saw one in the Chiswell Islands during the same year.
Gabrielson and Lincoln (1959) reported seeing swarms of fulmars in Marmot Strait and around the small islands on the north side of Afognak in early August.
Gabrielson also learned that they probably nested on Sea Lion Rock at the head of Marmot Strait.
Should the marmotbe surprised away from a burrow, its bold show of defense often gains enough time to work its way to a place of safety.
If the intruder is still some distance away, the marmotoften will stand up on its hind legs, picket pin fashion.
Each marmot usually will have several burrows, some being "escape" means and one a permanent home.
If it is autumn and the marmot is about ready to hibernate, it may go to sleep in its cozy nest and not reappear until the next day.
With hair standing on end and long claws at the ready, the marmot clatters its sharp teeth and hisses loudly at the enemy.
This large western marmot is not too far removed from the ground squirrels in either relationship or habits.
Description: A large, dark, brown marmotwith a comparatively long bushy tail.
There are many things a marmot can attend to while taking the early morning sunbath.
The elevated plains we found covered with a plenteous but close-fed crop of grasses, and occupied by extensive marmot villages.
A note like that of the prairie dog for a moment induced the belief that a village of the marmot was near; but we were soon undeceived by the appearance of the beautiful tyrannus forficatus in full pursuit of a crow.
The sun had drawn a long shadow before the fat marmot showed his head above the level of his intrenchments--his fearful little black eyes set and his ears straining.
With three other boys White Weasel repaired to the adjoining dog-town, and having located from cover a fat old marmot whose hole was near the outskirts of the village, they each cut a tuft of grease-weed.
There followed a long wait, after which the marmot jumped up on the dirt rim which surrounded his hole, and there waited until his patience gave out.
The marmot made a gallant race, but an unfortunate blunt-head caught him somewhere and bowled him over.
But industrious as he is, the hard work does not make the marmot at all a 'dull boy,' and he can still spare time for a good game now and then.
I have heard," said Rudolf, "that one marmot lies on his back and holds a bundle of hay between his legs, while two or three others drag him through the long tunnel into the burrow.
I wish we had some marmot fat; that would cure him quickly," said his mother.
All through the long winter of six or eight months the marmot lies in his burrow and does not move.
I got it from the fat of the last marmot I killed.
The Marmot inhabits the highest regions of the Alps; other species are found in Poland, Russia, Siberia, and Canada.
When we were dressed we followed the Mongol to the first burrow Where a fine marmotwas securely caught by the hind leg.
Of course, they see the Mongol but he looks only like a mound of earth, and the marmot raises itself a few inches higher.
A group showing an entire marmot family would be interesting for the Museum; especially so in view of their reported connection with the pneumonic plague.
The race taught us never again to attempt to guide our ponies away from the marmot holes which spotted the plains, for the horses could see them better than we could and all their lives had known that they meant death.
Shortly after daylight the next morning the lama came to our tent to announce that there was a marmot in one of the traps.
When we went to Urga in May prime marmot skins were worth thirty cents each to the Mongols.
Several million marmot pelts are shipped every year from Mongolia, the finest coming from Uliassutai in the west, and were American steel traps introduced the number could be doubled.
With a dogskin tied to his saddle the native rides over the plain until he reaches a marmot colony.
But suddenly the "dog" collapses in the strangest way and the marmotraises on the very tips of his toes to see what it is all about.
When a Mongol has driven one into its burrow, he lies quietly beside the hole waiting for the marmot to appear.
The fierce little beast was evidently bent upon a night raid on a marmot family.
A few scattered families live there, but the real marmot country begins about twenty-five miles farther north.
One morning at the "Marmot Camp," as we named the one where we first began real collecting, Yvette saw six or seven young animals on top of a mound in the green grass.
The shrill whistle of the marmot would often alone break the silence of the scene.
The ground round our tents was full of holes out of which the marmot rats kept appearing.
After waiting for an hour at the top of the pass in hopes of the clouds lifting, I started the descent, catching on the way a very pretty Marmot rat, with huge eyes and ears for his size, and a pretty bluish grey fur.
The next morning Heron and I started to go over the Pusi Pass (Marmot Pass), so called because of the number of marmots that frequent the Southern slopes.
Larks and wheatears ran along the ground in front of us, and small taillessmarmot rats dodged in and out of their holes as we approached.
At that moment the woodchuck discovered his danger, and, seeing that it was a race for life, leaped as I never saw marmot leap before.
The marmot in a few minutes ran out of his hole to a neighbor's doorway.
I saw a very exciting picture as I passed through a marmot colony near the Orkhon River.
Whenever themarmot is at the entrance of his hole, he sits up straight on his hind legs and looks like a bit of wood, a small stump or a stone.
The marmot jumped at the rapacious bird with great boldness but soon fell from a blow on the head.
Then they took the marmot out of the trap and carried it to the cave.
The marmot coming out of his hole smelled the bait on the string.
In the house of this Hoona chief a pet marmot (Parry's) was a great favorite with old and young.
The upper parts of the marmot are brownish black, its sides yellowish grey, while its lower parts are reddish brown.
It resembles the marmot in appearance, and has well-developed claws on all the toes of the fore-feet; shallow cheek-pouches.
The larger marmot is common, and I found the horns of the "Tchiru" antelope.
A Barbarea and some other plants make the neighbourhood of the hot-springs a little oasis, and the large marmot is common, uttering its sharp, chirping squeak.
The morning that we sailed into Marmot Bay was an exceptionally suave one in June; and the color of the water may have been due to the softness of the day.
Early on the morning after leaving Cook Inlet, the "early-decker" will find the Dora steaming lightly past Afognak Island through the narrow channel separating it from Marmot Island.
The southern point of Marmot Island is the Cape St. Hermogenes of Behring, a name that has been perpetuated to this day.
Roser is of opinion, that this Cape Marmot is in all probability the same animal which Martin Luther, in Leviticus, c.
Among the animal products of Genaaden Dal of importance in a scientific point of view is Hyrazeuma, a substance obtained from the urine of the Cape Marmot (Hyrax Capensis).
Trousers are generally made from Siberian fawn skins and the skin of the marmot or the ground squirrel.
The Solanum heterandrum of Pursh, now referred to the new genus Androcera of Nuttall, is also very common, but is not confined, like the plant just mentioned, to the marmot villages.
Then to save my life, and yet not betray the Khan's confidence, I spoke it in the hole of a marmot in the waste, far from the habitations of men.
And the youth listened to her word; and he went out far from the habitations of men till he came where there was a hole of a marmot in the ground.
But the marmot living in the hole, had heard the words, and she repeated them to the echo, and the echo told them to the wind, and the wind brought them to the Khan.
