In the Alps, you’re sometimes under the suspicious gaze of the locals.

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By digging extensive burrows, marmots influence soil structure and vegetation—and their abandoned burrows can later provide shelter for other animals.

Their grazing also affects alpine plant communities.

So the Alpine marmot is an active part of the alpine ecosystem.

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