UCLA professor heads long-term evolutionary biology project on marmots

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Daniel Blumstein's office is filled with marmot souvenirs, ranging from a "marmot-Xing" sign, to marmot T-shirts and memes, to a casino advertisement featuring a marmot. Blumstein, a UCLA ecology and evolutionary biology professor and head of the Marmot Project of the Rocky Mountain Biological Labor

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