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Chipmunk

Index Chipmunk

Chipmunks are small, striped rodents of Sciuridae, the squirrel family; specifically, they are ground squirrels (Marmotini). [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 66 relations: Acorn, Allen's chipmunk, Alpine chipmunk, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Arthropod, Asia, Bird, Bud, Buller's chipmunk, Burrow, California chipmunk, Cheek pouch, Chip 'n' Dale, Cliff chipmunk, Colorado chipmunk, Crown Publishing Group, Dispersal vector, Diurnality, Durango chipmunk, Eastern chipmunk, Ecosystem, Eutamias, Forest, Fungus, Gray-collared chipmunk, Gray-footed chipmunk, Ground squirrel, Hazelnut, Hibernation, Hoarding (animal behavior), Hopi chipmunk, Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger, John James Audubon, Least chipmunk, Lodgepole chipmunk, Long-eared chipmunk, Marmot, Merriam's chipmunk, Miocene, Mitochondrial DNA, Mountain bluebird, Mycorrhiza, National Geographic Society, Neotamias, North America, Nut (fruit), Omnivore, Ottawa dialect, Oxford English Dictionary, Palmer's chipmunk, ... Expand index (16 more) »

  2. Chipmunks
  3. Mammal common names

Acorn

The acorn, or oaknut, is the nut of the oaks and their close relatives (genera Quercus and Lithocarpus, in the family Fagaceae).

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Allen's chipmunk

Allen's chipmunk (Neotamias senex), also known as the shadow chipmunk, is a species of chipmunk native to the western United States.

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Alpine chipmunk

The alpine chipmunk (Neotamias alpinus) is a species of chipmunk native to the high elevations of the Sierra Nevada of California.

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Alvin and the Chipmunks

Alvin and the Chipmunks, originally David Seville and the Chipmunks and billed for their first two decades as the Chipmunks, are an American animated virtual band and media franchise first created by Ross Bagdasarian for novelty records in 1958.

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Arthropod

Arthropods are invertebrates in the phylum Arthropoda.

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Asia

Asia is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population.

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Bird

Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.

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Bud

In botany, a bud is an undeveloped or embryonic shoot and normally occurs in the axil of a leaf or at the tip of a stem.

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Buller's chipmunk

Buller's chipmunk (Neotamias bulleri) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae.

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Burrow

An eastern chipmunk at the entrance of its burrow A burrow is a hole or tunnel excavated into the ground by an animal to construct a space suitable for habitation or temporary refuge, or as a byproduct of locomotion.

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California chipmunk

The California chipmunk or chaparral chipmunk (Neotamias obscurus) is a species of rodent in the squirrel family Sciuridae.

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Cheek pouch

Cheek pouches are pockets on both sides of the head of some mammals between the jaw and the cheek.

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Chip 'n' Dale

Chip and Dale (also spelled Chip 'n' Dale) are a cartoon duo of anthropomorphic chipmunks created by The Walt Disney Company, who debuted in the 1943 short film Private Pluto.

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Cliff chipmunk

The cliff chipmunk (Neotamias dorsalis) is a small, bushy-tailed squirrel that typically lives along cliff walls or boulder fields bordering Pinyon-juniper woodlands in the Western United States and Mexico (commonly spotted in northern Arizona to Colorado).

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Colorado chipmunk

The Colorado chipmunk (Neotamias quadrivittatus) is a species of chipmunk in the squirrel family Sciuridae.

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Crown Publishing Group

The Crown Publishing Group is a subsidiary of Penguin Random House that publishes across several fiction and non-fiction categories.

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Dispersal vector

A dispersal vector is an agent of biological dispersal that moves a dispersal unit, or organism, away from its birth population to another location or population in which the individual will reproduce.

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Diurnality

Diurnality is a form of plant and animal behavior characterized by activity during daytime, with a period of sleeping or other inactivity at night.

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Durango chipmunk

The Durango chipmunk (Neotamias durangae) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae.

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Eastern chipmunk

The eastern chipmunk (Tamias striatus) is a chipmunk species found in eastern North America.

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Ecosystem

An ecosystem (or ecological system) is a system that environments and their organisms form through their interaction.

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Eutamias

Eutamias is a genus of chipmunks within the tribe Marmotini of the squirrel family. Chipmunk and Eutamias are chipmunks and Extant Miocene first appearances.

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Forest

A forest is an ecosystem characterized by a dense community of trees.

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Fungus

A fungus (fungi or funguses) is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms.

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Gray-collared chipmunk

The gray-collared chipmunk (Neotamias cinereicollis) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae.

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Gray-footed chipmunk

The gray-footed chipmunk (Neotamias canipes) is a terrestrial and forest-dwelling species of chipmunk and rodent in the family Sciuridae.

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Ground squirrel

Ground squirrels are rodents of the squirrel family (Sciuridae) that generally live on the ground or in burrows, rather than in trees like the tree squirrels.

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Hazelnut

The hazelnut is the fruit of the hazel tree and therefore includes any of the nuts deriving from species of the genus Corylus, especially the nuts of the species Corylus avellana.

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Hibernation

Hibernation is a state of minimal activity and metabolic depression undergone by some animal species.

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Hoarding (animal behavior)

Hoarding or caching in animal behavior is the storage of food in locations hidden from the sight of both conspecifics (animals of the same or closely related species) and members of other species.

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Hopi chipmunk

The Hopi chipmunk, Neotamias rufus, is a small chipmunk found in Colorado, Utah and Arizona in the southwestern United States.

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Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger

Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger (19 November 1775 – 10 May 1813) was a German entomologist and zoologist.

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John James Audubon

John James Audubon (born Jean-Jacques Rabin, April 26, 1785 – January 27, 1851) was a French-American self-trained artist, naturalist, and ornithologist.

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Least chipmunk

The least chipmunk (Neotamias minimus) is the smallest species of chipmunk and the most widespread in North America.

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Lodgepole chipmunk

The Lodgepole chipmunk (Neotamias speciosus) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae.

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Long-eared chipmunk

The long-eared chipmunk (Neotamias quadrimaculatus), also called the Sacramento chipmunk or the four-banded chipmunk, is a species of rodent in the squirrel family, Sciuridae.

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Marmot

Marmots are large ground squirrels in the genus Marmota, with 15 species living in Asia, Europe, and North America. Chipmunk and Marmot are Extant Miocene first appearances.

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Merriam's chipmunk

Merriam's chipmunk (Neotamias merriami) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae.

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Miocene

The Miocene is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma).

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Mitochondrial DNA

Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA and mDNA) is the DNA located in the mitochondria organelles in a eukaryotic cell that converts chemical energy from food into adenosine triphosphate (ATP).

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Mountain bluebird

The mountain bluebird (Sialia currucoides) is a migratory small thrush that is found in mountainous districts of western North America.

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Mycorrhiza

A mycorrhiza (mycorrhiza, or mycorrhizas) is a symbiotic association between a fungus and a plant.

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National Geographic Society

The National Geographic Society (NGS), headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States, is one of the largest nonprofit scientific and educational organizations in the world.

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Neotamias

Neotamias is a genus of chipmunks within the tribe Marmotini of the squirrel family. Chipmunk and Neotamias are chipmunks.

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North America

North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.

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Nut (fruit)

A nut is a fruit consisting of a hard or tough nutshell protecting a kernel which is usually edible.

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Omnivore

An omnivore is an animal that has the ability to eat and survive on both plant and animal matter.

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Ottawa dialect

Ottawa or Odawa is a dialect of the Ojibwe language spoken by the Odawa people in southern Ontario in Canada, and northern Michigan in the United States.

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Oxford English Dictionary

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP), a University of Oxford publishing house.

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Palmer's chipmunk

Palmer's chipmunk (Neotamias palmeri) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae, endemic to Spring Mountains in southern Nevada.

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Panamint chipmunk

The Panamint chipmunk (Neotamias panamintinus) is a species of rodent in the squirrel family, Sciuridae.

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Red-tailed chipmunk

The red-tailed chipmunk (Neotamias ruficaudus) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae.

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Rodent

Rodents (from Latin rodere, 'to gnaw') are mammals of the order Rodentia, which are characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each of the upper and lower jaws.

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Seedling

A seedling is a young sporophyte developing out of a plant embryo from a seed.

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Siberian chipmunk

The Siberian chipmunk (Eutamias sibiricus), also called common chipmunk, is native to northern Asia from central Russia to China, Korea, and Hokkaidō in northern Japan. Chipmunk and Siberian chipmunk are chipmunks.

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Siskiyou chipmunk

The Siskiyou chipmunk (Neotamias siskiyou) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae.

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Sonoma chipmunk

The Sonoma chipmunk (Neotamias sonomae) is a species of rodent in the squirrel family Sciuridae.

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Spermophilus

Spermophilus is a genus of ground squirrels in the squirrel family.

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Sporocarp (fungus)

The sporocarp (also known as fruiting body, fruit body or fruitbody) of fungi is a multicellular structure on which spore-producing structures, such as basidia or asci, are borne.

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Squirrel

Squirrels are members of the family Sciuridae, a family that includes small or medium-sized rodents.

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Tamias

Tamias is a genus of chipmunks in the tribe Marmotini of the squirrel family. Chipmunk and Tamias are chipmunks and Extant Miocene first appearances.

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Tamias aristus

Tamias aristus is an extinct species of chipmunk that lived during the late Pleistocene epoch.

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Townsend's chipmunk

Townsend's chipmunk (Neotamias townsendii) is a species of rodent in the squirrel family, Sciuridae.

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Uinta chipmunk

The Uinta chipmunk or hidden forest chipmunk (Neotamias umbrinus), is a species of chipmunk in the family Sciuridae.

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Yellow-cheeked chipmunk

The yellow-cheeked chipmunk (Neotamias ochrogenys), also known as the redwood chipmunk, is a species of rodent in the squirrel family, Sciuridae.

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Yellow-pine chipmunk

The yellow-pine chipmunk (Neotamias amoenus) is a species of order Rodentia in the family Sciuridae.

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See also

Chipmunks

Mammal common names

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipmunk

Also known as Chip monk, Chip munk, Chipmonk, Chipmunks, .

, Panamint chipmunk, Red-tailed chipmunk, Rodent, Seedling, Siberian chipmunk, Siskiyou chipmunk, Sonoma chipmunk, Spermophilus, Sporocarp (fungus), Squirrel, Tamias, Tamias aristus, Townsend's chipmunk, Uinta chipmunk, Yellow-cheeked chipmunk, Yellow-pine chipmunk.