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[Get it while it’s hot.] Move over Fat Bear Week, because it’s time for rotund rodents to shine. Here’s Dawn, the inaugural winner of Fat Marmot Week, hosted by the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory’s Marmot Project: The Marmot Project also announced that Dawn was the competition’s “true” winner on Saturday, based on researchers’ estimation of the animals’ actual size. Clocking in with a 4.5lb weight gain for a total of 13lbs, congratulations to Dawn for gaining the most weight! Ahead of his big hibernation, Dawn gained more than 50% of his body weight, and that’s impressive. Less impressive, however, are the ill-conceived government cuts to the National Science Foundation, which ravaged the Marmot Project’s funding. As a result, the Marmot Project’s leader Daniel Blumstein turned to OnlyFans to continue funding the work. In desperation, researchers in June decided to put the marmots on OnlyFans, the adult-content website, to raise funds. Since then, posts on the new account, named…

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