My rifle naturally inspired a desire to shoot something; a mountain sheep, a bear, even the fat marmots did not escape my deadly fire.
But the wild goats, marmotsand picas were the sole owners of this castle.
The marmots with aldermanic vests are whistling and 'making hay while the sun shines,' and one may see their bundles of choice herbs spread on a flat stone to dry, while the little striped gophers are busy too.
The marmots of this genus have a pair of pockets or pouches--one on the outside of each cheek--in which they actually carry seeds and other articles of food to their burrows.
The marmots usually live in large communities--in burrows, as rabbits do.
The Hamsters differ considerably from the marmots in their mode of burrowing.
These are the houses of the marmots or prairie dogs, and when deserted as they often are by their original inhabitants, they become the homes of burrowing owls.
Especially was this true when marmots chanced to be his victims, and around these he would leap and spring, dealing them terrific blows first with one paw and then with the other.
All night long the marmots had squealed, greatly to my dismay, and they were now capering to and fro like hares.
Marmots play about me like kittens, and eagles, the grandest creatures in this high world, nest in the cliffs to be as near the sky as they can get.
In the last stage the respiration of hedgehogs and marmots is somewhat different, there being a series of rapid respirations, often followed by a single deep sighing respiration.
All the true marmots (Arctomys), a genus of which the species live at tolerably high altitudes in Central Europe, Asia and North America, appear to spend the winter in uninterrupted slumber buried deep in their burrows.
The relation between the internal body-temperature and the respiratory movements has been worked out in hibernating dormice, hedgehogs, marmots and bats.
Hibernating marmots and bats, for example, have been known to live four hours in carbon dioxide, a gas which proves almost instantly fatal to mammals in a state of normal activity (Spallanzani).
Whoever had sown then could congratulate himself; the marmots were gone; frost now came before snow, and under the beautiful white covering the treasure intrusted to the soil lay safely hidden till spring.
To Almira the marmots which came across the ice and settled in the island are positively interdicted.
Those who had sown before that might be sure of a bad crop, for the legions of marmots had scratched out the seed before it sprung up.
Timea took the glass from his hand and looked again for the marmots on the rocks.
On the cliffs there are little marmots playing together like monkeys.
In the winter when the ground is deep in snow, marmots retire to the depths of their burrows, where as many as ten or fifteen may occupy the same chamber.
During the summer the marmotsinhabit the snowy summits of the Alps.
Thereafter the marmots remained silent until the eagles had left the area.
This species of eagle hunted also in areas where marmots (Marmota caligata) were abundant, as on the slopes adjoining Lake Peters.
Wetherill Mesa is the locality farthest west in the Park where marmotsare known to occur.
Mr. Shepherd has worked in areas occupied bymarmots for years in southwestern Colorado.
In short, the best naturalists have written some of their best pages in describing the associations of the prairie-dogs of America, the marmots of the Old World, and the polar marmots of the Alpine regions.
One might camp on the rugged shores of these bright fountains for weeks, without meeting any animal larger than the marmots that burrow beneath glacier boulders along the edges of the meadows.
All my first day was pure pleasure; simply mountaineering indulgence, crossing the dry pathways of the ancient glaciers, tracing happy streams, and learning the habits of the birds and marmots in the groves and rocks.
How happy the birds are all summer and some of them all winter; how the pouched marmots drive tunnels under the snow, and how fine and brave a life the slandered coyote lives here, and the deer and bears!
Frozen rills began to flow, the marmots came out of their nests in boulder-piles and climbed sunny rocks to bask, and the dun-headed sparrows were flitting about seeking their breakfasts.
Marmots make interesting pets, and tame ones are not uncommon.
After a long time marmots far away from them came out to protest against the intrusion.
With shrill chirping, all the marmots of this colony dived into their holes and gave the desert over to silence.
The marmotsare eaten both by Indians and white hunters.
Perhaps, altogether, there are not less than twenty different kinds of marmots in North America.
It is only when the snow melts, under the vernal sun, and the green blades of grass and the spring flowers array themselves on the surface of the earth, that the little marmots make their appearance again.
Perhaps Lucien would have carried his account of the marmots still farther--for he had not told half what he knew of their habits--but he was at that moment interrupted by the marmots themselves.
The marmotsare extremely shy and watchful creatures.
While these explanations were passing among the boys, the marmots had come out, to the number of a score, and were carrying on their gambols along the declivity of the hill.
In the countries where many of the marmots are found, so severe are the winters, and so barren the soil, that it would be impossible for these creatures to get a morsel of food for many long months.
The marmots burrow in the ground like rabbits, and sometimes the country is undermined with their burrows for a space of several miles.
But, notwithstanding their enemies, the marmots increase in numbers very quickly, and soon over-run a favourable district.
At this season it would undoubtedly starve had not Nature provided against such a result, by giving it the power of sleeping throughout the winter months as well as the marmots themselves, which it does.
In this way the creature obtains most of its food, but as the marmots lie torpid during the winter months, and the ground above them is frozen as hard as a rock, it is then impossible for the blaireau to effect an entrance.
It was especially gratifying to catch these marmots so easily, for we had been told in Urga that the Mongols could not trap them.
The Turin-Urga region has another commercial asset in the enormous colonies of marmots which inhabit the country for hundreds of miles to the north, east and west.
Within twenty-five miles of Urga we had seen a dozen marmots and a species of gopher (Citellus) that was new to us.
At this well we had camped for a week and hunted antelope; in that ragged mass of rocks we had killed a wolf; out on the Turin plain we had trapped twenty-six marmots in an enormous colony.
Mac said that two marmots stood erect on their hind legs, grasping each other with their front paws, and danced slowly about exactly as though they were waltzing.
Since these marmots are a distinctly northern animal they are a great help in determining the life zones of this part of Asia.
While the work was going on other marmots were watching us curiously from half a dozen mounds, and we set nine traps before it was time to return for dinner.
I can well believe it, for the marmots have many curious habits which would repay close study.
We could imagine easily into what terror the tiny demon would throw a nest of marmotscomfortably snuggled together in the bottom of their burrow.
The marmots hibernate during the winter, and retire to their burrows early in October, not to emerge until April.
Mr. Mamen often spoke of an extraordinary dance which he had seen the marmots perform, and when Mr. and Mrs. MacCallie returned to Kalgan they saw it also.
The three Marmots had been killed with shot quite too large, and not one of them was fit for drawing, or even skinning.
Marmots are quite abundant, and here they perforate their holes in the loose, sandy soil of the river banks, as well as the same soil wherever it is somewhat elevated.
Nevertheless, the marmots do appear before the snow is entirely gone, and once their sleep has ended they rarely resume it, whether or not they see their shadows.
In the higher life zones there is no lack of green food throughout the summer, consequently marmots there remain active.
As mentioned above, marmotsoccupy a tremendous altitudinal range, reaching from above timberline down into the Transition Life Zone.
Marmots have always been favorites of this writer.
Large numbers of hares were seen, and frequently the holes of marmots where the inmates were still hibernating.
Already they crawl together like marmots to the fire, and yet their teeth chatter and they tremble from cold in their furs.
The marmots had descended into their burros, the snowshoe rabbit hopped, a lonely figure in the desolation, through the drifts.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "marmots" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
