marmots eat lots of things like grasses
Marmots mainly eat greens and many types of grasses, berries, lichens, mosses, roots, and flowers.
Marmots eat mostly vegetation and sniff it out with their noses. And sometimes they will whistle about it. Flowers, mosses, grasses, and berries are the preferred diet of marmots.
Marmots eat until they become full. This can take longer after hibernating for the Winter. They eat grass, flowers, and insects.
According to Wikipedia, marmots -- large squirrels -- eat greens: "...types of grasses, berries, lichens, mosses, roots and flowers." So foraging for food on Vancouver Island shouldn't be hard, since it is a lush, green woodland area, except for settled cities and towns.Read more, below.
If you are talking about the paper that is Chapter 2 ecology the best I can tell you is that the marmots habitat is pretty weak and can't be that hard for the bear to get to. It's role in the food chain is to eat the grass to supply energy for the bear, or if it lives a happy life and dies of old age or something the decomposer comes in and breaks it down.
Sure, marmots can swim
Do marmots live in grasslands?
Hoary marmots live near the tree line on slopes with grasses and forbs to eat. **Hope this helps
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Alpine Marmots are found in France
Hares, rabbits, marmots, squirrels and prairie dogs are the main sources of food for the golden eagle.