Chipmunk
Least Chipmunk
(Tamias minimus)
Chipmunks are small striped squirrels native to North America and Asia. Note the stripes on the head, back and tail. They are usually classed either as a single genus Tamias, or as three.
Chipmunk Chews: Though they are commonly depicted with their paws up to the mouth, eating peanuts, or more famously their cheeks bulging out on either side, chipmunks eat a much more diverse range of foods than just nuts.
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Chipmunk
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
rodent of the family Sciuridae (squirrel family). The chipmunk of the E United States and SE Canada is of the genus Tamias. The body of the common Eastern chipmunk, Tamias striatus, is about 5 to 6 in.
Chipmunks are rodents that live in forests, open woodlands, and brushy areas in North America and Asia. There are about 17 different species of chipmunks. Chipmunks hibernate during the cold winter months.
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Type: Mammal Diet: Omnivore Average life span in the wild: 2 to 3 years Size: 4 to 7 in (10 to 18 cm); Tail, 3 to 5 in (8 to 13 cm) Weight: 1 to 5 ounces (28 to 142 grams) Did you know?
When they prepare for winter they make a nest out of leaves, and then curls up for a long nap, but unlike the marmot that hibernates through the cold months the trim four ounce chipmunk often wakes up hungry when blizzards blow and snacks in its bed.
Chipmunks
If you live near a woodlot of any size, you're likely to have chipmunks as neighbors. Chipmunks are found almost everywhere there are woods or scrub brush lands.
HOPI CHIPMUNK FACTS
Description
The Hopi Chipmunk has orange-red to buff fur. It has two white stripes on the face - one above and one below the eye. There are three grayish white stripes on the back.
How the Chipmunk Got Its Stripes
If you still plan to be a renowned authority on Panamint chipmunks, and its various rodent cousins, you need to know, of course, how they got their stripes, an event that unfolded a long time ago in a land far, ...
The Least Chipmunk (Tamias minimus) is very common and widespread across much of the western and north-central United States and most of Canada. It is a familiar visitor to campsites and parks where many become quite tame.
Chipmunks eat mostly what you would expect a squirrel to eat; grains, nuts, berries, seeds, and mushrooms. They also eat bugs and salamanders. They also will raid bird nests, and eat the eggs and baby birds, if they are small enough.
Chipmunks usually have two breeding seasons: from February to April and from June to August. During these periods the female chipmunk will be ready to mate for 3-10 days and gives a series of calls known as chips.
Chipmunks eat a wide variety of seeds, fruits and nuts. They are particularly fond of corn and sunflower seeds. In the autumn they may store as much as 7 litres (2 gal.) of food for winter use.
Chipmunks are omnivorous and will eat both meat and plant materials to supplement their diets. They will often steal bird eggs and eat insects, sometimes even going after a smaller mammal, like a mouse.
Chipmunks are woodland creatures which are at home in hollow logs, tree cavities, or underground dens where they store piles of food.
The chipmunk is a terrestrial type of squirrel, meaning that it lives underground and emerges only by necessity.
This chipmunk is very similar in appearance to the Least Chipmunk. It can be distinguished from that species where their ranges overlap by its richer colours. Its fur is more orange or rust-coloured rather than the grey of the Least's.
Least chipmunks are the smallest of all chipmunks. They have black and white stripes down their backs and average only 190 mm and 50 g. They build complex burrows for the winter with several rooms, and have secret exits for quick getaways.
Least Chipmunk (Tamias minimus)
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Siberian chipmunks bury their food 5 cm under ground. They clean themselves all over, starting from the back to the tail, and sometimes they groom one another.
Gray-footed Chipmunk
: Family Sciuridae : Tamias canipes V. Bailey
Description.
Range The eastern chipmunk can be found in southeastern Canada and most of the northeastern United States south to Mississippi and Virginia and west to North Dakota and Oklahoma.
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Life History: The eastern chipmunk has two breeding seasons per year, but not all will be successful or attempt it twice. The first breeding cycle begins in February or March and ends in April.
Hopi Chipmunk
Order: Rodentia
Family: Sciuridae
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Eastern Chipmunk
Tamias striatus (Linnaeus)
Description: The eastern chipmunk is a small, brightly colored squirrel that can be distinguished from other members of its family by: 1) five conspicuous black stripes running along the back and ...
Dancing chipmunks
These little guys share the wood pile with several other garden-variety chipmunks. We just got two kittens and the way the chipmunks played reminded me a lot of how cats play.
Chipmunks and thirteened-lined ground squirrels are favorite foods and can be quickly dug out of their own burrows. Badgers also feed on skunks, reptiles, rabbits, snail, insects, eggs of ground-nesting birds and an occasional carcass.
The chipmunk is a ground-dwelling squirrel, solitary, and active during the day. It lives in burrows under trees, banks, and rocks.
Mice, rats, chipmunks, voles, shrews, birds, and eggs. Young feed on frogs, lizards and small mice.
Life Span:
Unknown.
Squirrels and chipmunks (Sciuridae) are also aggressive users of woodpecker holes [15]. Pileated woodpeckers (Drycopus pileatus) sometimes make holes too large to be used by some species, but eastern bluebirds use most of the holes [5].
common eastern chipmunk (Tamias striatus striatus)
common Gapper's red-backed vole (Clethrionomys gapperi gapperi)
common golden mouse (Ochrotomys nuttalli aureolus)
common mink (Mustela vison mink)
common muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus zibethicus) ...
Family Sciuridae: squirrels, chipmunks, and marmots (cosmopolitan except Australia)
Family Gliridae: dormice (Africa, Eurasia)
Family Castoridae: beavers (Holarctic)
Family Geomyidae: pocket gophers (North America) ...
ground beetles, and ants; many species of spider; several species of birds such as chickadees, blue jays, nuthatches, towhees, and robins; and approximately 15 species of common woodland mammals, such as the white-footed mouse, shrews, chipmunks, ...
Hares ("jack-rabbits"), chipmunks or ground-squirrels, and mice form a large portion of their food; but coyotes also kill the fawns of deer and prongbuck, as well as sage-hens and other kinds of game-birds.
: Eastern chipmunks and flying squirrels prey on eastern bluebird eggs and nestlings.
The diet of the Zone-tailed Hawk includes many small vertebrates (birds, especially passerines; mammals, especially ground squirrels and chipmunks; amphibians and reptiles, particularly the common collared lizard and crevice spiny lizard; ...
Mice, chipmunks, voles, shrews, even full grown
squirrels have been reported in its diet. These snakes probably prey on birds and birds's
eggs most heavily of all Minnesota snakes because of their climbing ability and time
spent in trees.
Nest predators include snakes and lizards, both small and larger mammals, including racoons, skunks, chipmunks and mice, and oppossums, other birds such as jays, and even ants.
FOOD: The northern black racer is a carnivore and has been documented to eat butterfly and moth larvae, frogs, skinks, small birds, chipmunks, northern flying squirrels, mice and many other species.
American beavers are rodents, a subgroup of mammals that includes woodchucks, chipmunks, pocket gophers, squirrels and prairie dogs.
Common rodents include mice, rats, squirrels, porcupines, beavers, chipmunks, guinea pigs, and voles. Rodents have sharp incisors that they use to gnaw wood, break into food, and bite predators.
Rattlesnakes prey on a variety of warm-blooded animals, including: mice, chipmunks and other squirrels, rabbits, shrews, moles, weasels and birds. Occasionally, rattlesnakes will also feed on insects, amphibians and other snakes.
Typical foods: Small to moderate-size rodents including squirrels, mice, shrews and chipmunks; small to moderate-size birds; sometimes other snakes and amphibians.
Today, the Eastern Timber Rattlesnake is an endangered animal species in Ohio.
Mammals taken include voles, mice, shrews, squirrels, wood rats, rabbits, opossums, chipmunks, hares and bats are commonly taken. Other prey includes snakes, frogs, lizards, salamanders, mollusks, insects, and has also known to have mastered fishing.
Badgers prefer hunting in grassy openings. They consume a variety of prey such as mice, voles, chipmunks, ground squirrels, skunks, snakes, eggs and ground nesting birds. Carrion rounds out their diet. Some kills may be buried for later consumption.
winter months, some bears go into a dormant state in which their heart rate is extremely low, their body temperature is relatively high, they neither eat nor release bodily waste, and they can be roused (unlike "true" hibernators such as chipmunks).
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this in Asia and North America gave a home strip or chipmunks been represented in the old world only by the Burunduk or the Siberian strip-croissant (...
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Family: Sciuridae (Chipmunks, Marmots and Squirrels)
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The Rodentia also includes beavers, muskrats, porcupines, woodchucks, chipmunks, squirrels, prairie dogs, marmots, chinchillas, voles, lemmings, and many others.
Timber Rattlesnakes eat a variety of rodents, such as mice, rats, chipmunks, and squirrels. They may also eat small rabbits and various kinds of birds.
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Family: Sciuridae (tree squirrels, ground squirrels, chipmunks, flying squirrels, and marmots)
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They feed almost exclusively on warm-blooded prey such as mice, rats, shrews, voles, squirrels, chipmunks, rabbits, and birds. They have been known to raid bird nests and devour the eggs.
FEEDING HABITS:
The Cooper's Hawk was known as a predator of birds, but it also feeds upon mammals preferably squirrels, and chipmunks. This hawk was also known for raiding poultry yards.
General Description: A large, stocky lizard with large, spiny scales and crossbars on the back. While most are smaller, I've seen them with bodies the size of chipmunks at the top of the Sheep Range.
What They Eat
In the water, river otters hunt fish, crayfish, and amphibians. Their shape and flexibility make them fast swimmers. On land they can also catch chipmunks, mice, and young rabbits.
Pit vipers can develop an appetite for certain prey—some spend their lives eating only birds or chipmunks while others will eat a variety of foods. Their interest and appetite seems to be shaped by killing a particular prey early in life.
include white-tailed deer, coyotes, the rare bobcat, beavers and reclusive river otters. We also find red and gray gox, mink, long-tailed weasel, southern bog lemming, eight species of bats, as well as raccoon, muskrat, various squirrels, chipmunks, ...
 See also: Gopher, Opossum, Manatee, Orca, Shrew
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