Marmot Feeding Habits — The Canadian Society of Marmots

Yellow-bellied marmots are herbivores – feeding on the leaves and blossoms of a variety of herbaceous plants and grasses. They also eat grains, legumes, fruit, and occasionally insects.

Yellow-bellied marmots range from southwestern Canada throughout the western United States including the Rockies, Sierra Nevada and intermountain west. They typically live in open habitats such as steppes, alpine meadows, pastures, gravel-covered fields and forest edges. They dig their burrows in open, grassy or herb-covered slopes.

In Washington, this marmot is always at lower elevations, in more arid situations than the Hoary Marmot. It requires sufficient rocks for shelter and burrows and abundant herbaceous vegetation for food nearby.

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