All about animalsFacts, stories and anecdotes . anything it does not under-stand it gives its bark, and the dogs disappear into the burrows. It wouldseem as if the place was utterly deserted. After awhile the dogs poke theirnoses out of their holes, and if they think the enemy has gone, they soon comeout of hiding once more. THE MARMOT. The Marmot is a sort of European cousin to the prairie-dog. It is foundall over the northern part of Finland, Norway, and Russia. It is another ofthe animals which goes to sleep in the winter and wakes up in the is dull and stupid in spite of its timi
All about animalsFacts, stories and anecdotes . anything it does not under-stand it gives its bark, and the dogs disappear into the burrows. It wouldseem as if the place was utterly deserted. After awhile the dogs poke theirnoses out of their holes, and if they think the enemy has gone, they soon comeout of hiding once more. THE MARMOT. The Marmot is a sort of European cousin to the prairie-dog. It is foundall over the northern part of Finland, Norway, and Russia. It is another ofthe animals which goes to sleep in the winter and wakes up in the is dull and stupid in spite of its timidity, but has a keen sense of lives in a burrow which it digs out itself. Its tunnel is about eight feet long,and branches off into two parts. The one forms a storehouse and the otherthe living part. This storehouse is filled with grain and nuts, which it hasbeen busv collecting all the summer. As soon as the marmot is ready to takeits long winter sleep it stuffs up the burrow with sticks and earth, so that thecold may not creep A FAMILY OF MARMOTS.
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