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whistling pig
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a large marmot, Marmota caligata, of the western mountains.
See: hoary marmot
Quotations
1936
Higher up the slope, in an area of rocky open, a colony of "whistling pigs," perched prominently on their den boulders, were whistling sociably at one another. . . .
1966
. . . there . . . the Sikannis . . . could snare the marmot, the siffleur, the "whistling pig," the little haunter of the barren heights.