Hares and rabbits, mice and voles, marmots, susliks, and lemmings abounded in huge numbers; toads, frogs, snakes, and lizards had their place.
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There was the usual complement of small grassland animals: susliks, marmots, jerboas, hamsters, hares, and a crested porcupine species that was new to the woman.
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Susliks were the preferred prey of black kites, though the long-winged hawks also fed on other rodents, and carrion and insects as well.
Genus of rodents, in the squirrel family, living in Eurasia, on the ground.
The large tribe, of the marmots, which includes the three large genuses of Arctomys, Cynomys, and Spermophilus, is still more sociable and still more intelligent.