ID: 3330746 A little boy who struck up an extraordinary bond with a colony of Alpine marmots is still best of friends with the usually shy creatures - as this remarkable footage shows. Matteo Walch has travelled to Grossglockner in the Austrian Alps on a regular basis after first forming a friendship with the wild marmots when he was just three-years-old. Over the years Matteo, now 15, has been photographed by his mum, Michaela, 54, as he feeds, plays with and cuddles the marmots in their natural habit
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