Paws For This Week’s Animal Facts: Chipmunks And Chip Chip Hooray

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Mariel Ruvinsky • Writer and Editor
Nov 3, 2021 12:00 PM EDT

ALLLVVIIIIIINNNNN!!! C'mon, I know that's the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear the word chipmunk. As iconic as the three singing Disney chipmunks are, what do we REALLY know about this ordinary rodent? Well, this week, you're about to find out the coolest and most fun things about the awwdorable chipmunk.

For many of us, chipmunks are as common as leaves on trees. But, it doesn't mean we know much about our furry neighborhood friends. No animal is too small for fascinating, fun facts! Take your phone, computer, iPad, whatever outside and and gather a new appreciation for these teensie, cutie, scampering tree climbers. 
 

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    Organ Mountains Chipmunk - ICANHAS CHEEZ BURGER Chipmunks need 15 hours of sleep each day. All of the scampering we see outside has to get done during a nine-hour window
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    Have you ever seen a chipmunk sleeping? I haven't. These little guys are working their butts off in order to get their beauty rest. I bet they make daily schedules to make sure they get everything done before its lights out. 

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    Organ Mountains Chipmunk - Chipmunks are among the smallest members of the squirrel family. They are also related to woodchucks and prairie dogs CANHAS CHEEZ
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    Tree - ICANHAS CHEEZ BURGER There are 25 species of chipmunks, ranging mostly from Canada to Mexico. They inhabit a variety of stomping grounds from forests to deserts to suburban neighborhoods
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    Eastern chipmunk - ICANHAS CHEEZ BURGER. Most chipmunks prefer to live in underground burrows. Their tunnel systems that can stretch 10 to 30 feet (3 to 9 meters) long
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    Rodent - Chipmunks can hold a stash of food three times the size of their head in their cheek pouches
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    This is literally the chubby bunny challenge. I have this vision where all the little chipmunk friends on the block come together and do a little competition. They fill their cheeks with nuts and whoever can fit the most gets to take the whole lot back to their burrow.

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    Organism - Some chipmunks hibernate but wake up periodically to dip into their stockpile of nuts and seeds and even venture outside ICANHAS CHEEZ BURGER.
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    Nature - ICANHAS BURGER. Despite their reputation for cuddly camaraderie in cartoons, real chipmunks are mostly solitary creatures
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    Organ Mountains Chipmunk - ICANHAS CHEEZ BURGER The average lifespan of a chipmunk in the wild is between 2 and 3 years
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    Organ Mountains Chipmunk - Chipmunks have 5 toes on their front paws and 4 toes on their back paws ICANHA CHEEZ BURGER
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    Hand - When they are born, baby chipmunks are the size of a bumblebee CANHA CHEEZ BURGER
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    Nature - ICANHA CHEEZ BURGER One chipmunk to 165 acorns in a day can gather up
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    Smile - ICANHAS CHEEZ BURGER Walt Disney made chipmunks famous, first with the cartoon characters Chip 'n' Dale, and more recently the singing sensations Alvin, Simon, and Theodore
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