Marmot and Crow Interacting

Marmot and Crow Interacting shows this years marmot youngster approaching its parent and a crow scaring it away. The crow then nips at the tail of the...

Marmot Dens in Juneau

Marmot Dens in Juneau is meant to be an introduction to the type of habitat they occupy. The opening illustration was drawn by Kathy Hocker. For more information on marmots look at Whilstlers on the...

Beach Marmots Eat

Beach Marmots Eat is meant as an inttroduction to the food that these marmots eat along our saltwater beaches.  The types of food they eat before going into hibernation can help prevent hair loss that tends to occur during hibernation. Apparently Northern Yarrow is an...

Beach Marmot on May 2nd

Beach Marmot in early May documents some of the food being eaten. So far I have photographed hoary marmots that live along the saltwater beaches in Juneau eating cow parsnip, dandilion, horsetail, stinging nettle, and...

Marmot eating Stinging and Toxic Plants

This video could be used as an introduction to how animals cope with toxic plants. How do Wild Herbivores, such as these marmots, Cope with Plant Toxins? An article created by members of a graduate Foraging Ecology Class  at the University of Idaho and Washington...