marmot
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stocky coarse-furred burrowing rodent with a short bushy tail found throughout the northern hemisphere; hibernates in wintertype of:knaagdierrelatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing
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This first book of His Dark Materials trilogy starts off at Oxford's Jordan College, where eleven-year-old Lyra Belacqua and her dæmon Pantalaimon are given a device called an alethiometer that Lyra learns to interpret in order to discover truths, especially in connection to the kidnapping of children.
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