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Chipmunk / Ardilla rayada.
44.5588, -72.5778
Field Notes
Description:
Chipmunks are small striped squirrels native to North America and Asia. They have an omnivorous diet consisting of grain, nuts, fruit, berries, birds' eggs, small frogs, fungi, worms, insects and on occasions small mammals like young mice. At the beginning of autumn, many species of chipmunk begin to stockpile these goods in their burrows, for winter. Other species make multiple small caches of food. These two kinds of behavior are called larder hoarding and scatter hoarding.
Habitat:
A friend's front yard at Vermont (USA).
Notes:
The common name originally may have been spelled "chitmunk" (from the Odawa word jidmoonh, meaning "red squirrel"; cf. Ojibwe, ajidamoo).
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