The Vancouver Island Marmot website has incredible photographs of Vancouver Island marmots. In Pakistan there is a species called the golden marmot. This report later drew investigators to study golden marmot behavior. Herodotus reported that people in this area used the marmots to harvest gold. Read about these findings in articles from The New York Times , CNN-On Line , and from Time Magazine .
Locals have folktales about how golden marmots got their whistles.
Down South, hunting 'chucks is a popular past-time and there are recipes to cook 'chucks. Other hunters do a special dance and twirl a yak-tail to catch their prey's attention and get a better shot. While marmots often are an important source of summer food for foxes, coyotes, wolves, bears, snow leopards, and eagles, marmots themselves, prefer vegetables. They may eat the occasional insect or the occasional piece of roadkill. At the Fruita orchards in Capitol Reef National Park, yellow-bellied marmots eat a lot of fruit growing in old Mormon orchards.