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whistling marmot 
a large marmot, Marmota caligata, of the western mountains.
See also: hoary marmot
- 1921 A whistling marmot pops up from the rocks and pierces the stillness.
- 1935 What a mighty struggle to reach the top! Pressing, digging, sinking, wallowing, even burrowing like the whistling marmots!
- 1963 They found their way . . . into the valley of a river that Hector named Siffleur--the French name for the whistling marmots.
- 1921 A whistling marmot pops up from the rocks and pierces the stillness.