Chipmunks

Chipmunks have a life span of around 3 years. The diet of Chipmunks includes nuts, seeds, fruits and insects.

Chipmunk is the common name for any small squirrel-like rodent species of the genus Tamias in the family Sciuridae.

Chipmunks construct expansive burrows which can be more than 3.5 m in length with several well-concealed entrances. The sleeping quarters are kept extremely clean as shells and feces are stored in refuse tunnels.

These small squirrels fulfill several important functions in forest ecosystems. Their activities with regards to harvesting and hoarding tree seeds play a crucial role in seedling establishment. They also consume many different kinds of fungi, including those involved in symbiotic mycorrhizal associations with trees, and are an important vector for dispersal of the spores of subterranean sporocarps (truffles) which have co-evolved with these and other mycophagous mammals and thus lost the ability to disperse their spores through the air.

Chipmunks dig burrows where they store food and use them as protection.



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