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Original - An eastern chipmunk (Tamias striatus) with its cheek pouches filled. Chipmunks use their expandable cheek pouches for transporting excavated earth away from the burrow or transporting foraged food for winter consumption to the burrow. Reason High quality and good EV, especially because it exhibits a common chipmunk behavior.
Original - A chipmunk is a squirrel-like rodent species native to North America. 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 variety of foods.
It has lighter fur on the lower part of its body. It has a tawny stripe that runs from its whiskers to below its ears, and light stripes over its eyes. It has two fewer teeth than other chipmunks and four toes each on the front legs, but five toes on the hind legs. [16] The chipmunk's appearance "remains consistent throughout life.
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 ...
Fungi, however, consistently serves as the chipmunk's primary food source, averaging around 60% of its food intake but getting as high as 99% when in virgin conifer forests. Allen's chipmunk uses its cheek pouches for food storage—primarily fungi—but has also been noted as the only species of chipmunk that collected the seeds that it ate. [4]
The cheek pouch is a specific morphological feature that is evident in particular subgroups of rodents (e.g. Heteromyidae and Geomyidae, or gopher), yet a common misconception is that certain families, such as Muridae (including the common black and brown rats), contain this structure when in fact their cheeks are merely elastic due to a high ...
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The gray-collared chipmunk grows to a total length of about 225 mm (9 in) including a tail of around 98 mm (4 in). The forehead is greyish-brown and the side of the head bears three dark stripes, the central one of which passes through the eye. These are separated by bands of white. The cheeks, neck, shoulders, upper back, and rump are grey.