These are the incredible new pictures of a boy who became friends with a group of marmots. Matteo Walch struck up a remarkable bond with the alpine marmots when he was first introduced to the animals his nature-loving family, when he was just four years old. And as these incredible new images of Matteo, now 11, show, his bond with the usually-shy creatures is more than just a fleeting friendship. Matteo and his mum mum Michaela, a schoolteacher from Innsbruck, Austria, return to visit the colony of Marmots in Groglockner in the Austrian alps for two weeks every year.
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