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Least chipmunks are found through most of the western United States from northern New Mexico and western North and South Dakota to eastern California, Oregon and Washington, and throughout much of southern and western Canada from Yukon and southeastern British Columbia [7] to central Ontario, and into the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and neighboring parts of Wisconsin and Minnesota.
During the winter, the chipmunk may enter long periods of hibernation. [22] Predators of the eastern chipmunk include hawks, owls, foxes, raccoons, snakes, weasels, coyotes, bobcats, lynx, domestic dogs and domestic cats. On average, eastern chipmunks live three or more years in the wild, but in captivity they may live as long as eight years. [16]
Caged Tamias chipmunk, Tokyo area. The genus Tamias was formerly divided into three subgenera that, in sum, included all chipmunk species: Tamias, the eastern chipmunk and other fossil species; Eutamias, of which the Siberian chipmunk (E. sibiricus) is the only living member; and Neotamias, which includes the 23 remaining, mostly western ...
The Peñasco least chipmunk was one of 15 species around the nation at the center of a lawsuit filed by the Center for Biological Diversity against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, alleging the ...
Eastern gray squirrel Black-tailed prairie dog Woodchuck Golden-mantled ground squirrel Eastern chipmunk. ... Least chipmunk, Neotamias minimus [n 4] LC and: [n 3]
An eastern chipmunk placing food in its cheek pouch. Chipmunks have an omnivorous diet primarily consisting of seeds, nuts and other fruits, and buds. [9] [10] They also commonly eat grass, shoots, and many other forms of plant matter, as well as fungi, insects and other arthropods, small frogs, worms, and bird eggs. They will also occasionally ...
Neotamias is a genus of chipmunks within the tribe Marmotini of the squirrel family. It contains 23 species, which mostly occur in western North America. It contains 23 species, which mostly occur in western North America.
Eutamias is a genus of chipmunks within the tribe Marmotini of the squirrel family. It includes a single living species, the Siberian chipmunk ( Eutamias sibiricus ). The genus is often treated as a subgenus of Tamias , which is now restricted to the eastern chipmunk of North America. [ 1 ]