( transitive ) To fill (one's mouth or cheeks) with food.The Dipset capo favors breezy, bass-heavy beats instead of chipmunked soul samples to celebrate the 'hood's favorite season. ( transitive ) To speed up (an audio recording, especially a song), to make the voices high-pitched.Ukrainian: бурунду́к (uk) m ( burundúk )Ĭhipmunk ( third-person singular simple present chipmunks, present participle chipmunking, simple past and past participle chipmunked).Mi'kmaq: apalqaqamej anim, apalgaqamej anim, amalpaqamej anim.Chipmunks reach sexual maturity at the age of one year. Young chipmunks are ready to leave the burrow at the age of 6 weeks. They are blind, naked and helpless.īoth parents take care of the babies. Chipmunks are sized like a bumblebee at birth. They produce bird-like noise that can be heard in the case of near danger and during the mating season, when female wants to attract males.Ĭhipmunks gather during the mating season that takes place from February to April. In the case of intruders, chipmunk will fiercely defend territory around its burrow.Ĭhipmunks are very vocal animals.
One chipmunk can collect 8 pounds of food per year.Ĭhipmunks are territorial animals. Cheek pouches are used for the transportation of food to the burrows. They undergo winter sleep, but they wake up couple of times to eat.Ĭhipmunks are solitary creatures that spend majority of time in collecting and storing the food for the upcoming winter.Ĭhipmunks have cheek pouches that can enlarge to the size 3 times bigger than their heads. They usually eat nuts, seeds, berries, fruit, fungi, insects, frogs and eggs.Ĭhipmunks spend coldest part of the year under the ground. Main predators of chipmunks are snakes, hawks, owls, weasels, bobcats, raccoons and coyotes.Ĭhipmunks are omnivores (they eat both plant- and animal-based food).
Entrance area is always well hidden.Ĭhipmunks have a lot of predators due to their small size. All burrows are divided in several sections: nursery, food storing chamber and resting area.Ĭhipmunks keep their burrows very clean. They can be 30 feet long and 3 feet wide. Unlike other squirrels, chipmunks live mainly in the underground burrows. Largest species can reach 4.4 ounces of weight and 11 inches in length.Ĭhipmunks are covered with red or grayish-brown fur with light and dark stripes on their back, sides and head.Ĭhipmunks have fluffy tail that can reach 3 to 5 inches in length. Smallest species has 1.1 to 1.8 ounces of weight and reaches 7.2 to 8.5 inches in length. Palmer's chipmunk is on the list of vulnerable species (it may become endangered in the near future).Ĭhipmunks are the smallest members of the squirrel family. Chipmunks are threatened by habitat loss via deforestation. Farmers often consider chipmunks as vermin because they dig burrows in the ground. Chipmunks live in deciduous forests, woodlands, shrubs and in gardens. 24 of them originate from North America, remaining one from Asia. If not in the wild, chipmunks can be easily recognized as Chip and Dale, two cartoon characters created by Walt Disney.
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