Friday, November 12, 2010

Chipmunk


True Wild Life | Chipmunk | Chipmunks are small squirrel-like rodents that are native to North America, although one species is found in some European countries. Chipmunks eat a wide variety of wildlife like frogs, mushrooms, birds, eggs, plants nuts and seeds. In the autumn, the chipmunks begin to gather their winter food stash, which they store in their burrows to last them until spring.



The most common chipmunks are the red coloured chipmunks with light brown stripes on their back. These are North American chipmunks. Chipmunks are also becoming more popular as pets. There are 25 different species of chipmunk living in the North American forests. The chipmunk is often referred to as a small squirrel due to the obvious similarities between the two mammals. The chipmunk plays a vital within the forest eco-system which the chipmunk inhabits through the dispersing of seeds when the chipmunk eats the fruits and berries that the forest plants produce and the chipmunk chews on the wood of plant stalks and tree trunks which disperses the spores from the plant into the surrounding forest.


Chipmunks construct extensive underground burrows which can be more than 3.5 m in length and these chipmunk burrows often have several well-concealed entrances to keep the chipmunk burrow a secret from unwanted predators. Within the chipmunk burrow the chipmunk sleeping quarters are kept extremely clean as the chipmunks keep nut shells and feces stored in separate refuse tunnels.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

what. not even chipmunks. neva seen them fighting.neva. they look more like ground hogs or somethin. get real bro. this chipmunkin stuff is no joke.

Anonymous said...

like, fo real, they are so damn cute and fluffy. you just cant be messin wit their style. broskii i know you want some interestin pics, but this aint cuttin it. Get some real chipmunks, then talk to me about it, you know, the issue, with the fake chipmunks. get real. girl please. or guy, if your a guy. yeah.

Anonymous said...

whoa bro. this shit is wack. fosho.

Anonymous said...

cool chipmunks

Anonymous said...

I love chipmunks so much and the photos they put in this page the photo that was much cuter was the first photo because the cheeks were fat and they were fat becuse he/she was eting seeds and the funny one for me was the one ataking the chipmunk that was ataking he/she was ataking
another chipmunk and I laugheg so hard that I could'nt breath and I laughed so hard because the chipmunk made a funny face and because he/she was ataking another chipmunk so that was why i thought all of what I wrote on the page

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