Daniel Blumstein
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They eat plants.
They might eat some insects.
You see insects in their poop, but that's probably incidental.
There is infanticide in some species.
So when I say, don't try this at home, don't do this at home either.
In these more social species, the most social species, there's bad stuff that happens.
So males will come in and kill all the babies.
And then, you know, chase away the male and then try to be the male for the next year.
Kind of like lions.
Females sometimes engage in infanticide as well.
It's a little less common.
But there isn't obviously cannibalism associated with the infanticide.
It really seems to be reproductive competition in the males.
Females, not so sure.
But the golden marmots I studied in Pakistan, infanticide was as important as predation for first summer mortality.
Wow.
About 25% of the kids were killed by other animals.
marmots and about 25% were probably killed by predators.
Yeah.
I mean, we, marmots are soap operas.