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Hibernators Week: Chipmunks Six Ways (Tamias spp.)

by JR Kinyak on February 7, 2009

in Rodents, Theme Weeks

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In one sense, I got lazy with this drawing, doing it in sharpie on top of my pencil with no shading, no blending, no colored pencil, and it’s on my tracing paper sketch instead of a nice crisp sheet of vellum. No furry details, no crazy colors. But if you knew how long I researched it and how many times I tried to draw it the normal way, you would know it wasn’t lazy at all. So here are six species of chipmunks from the Tamias genus. Clockwise from the top right: T. obscurus, T. quadrimaculatus, T. speciosus, T. senex, T. amoenus, and T. alpinus. All six species live in California.

Six more rodents! Check ‘em off if you’re scoring at home!

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Mammalthon 2: Least Chipmunk (Tamias minimus)

by JR Kinyak on May 4, 2008

in Mammalthons, Rodents

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This little guy is for my tia Leah. The wee least chipmunk is the smallest of all the chipmunks. They live throughout North America, and they build different summer and winter houses. They hibernate, but not too deeply, and they wake up frequently for midnight snacks.

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Eastern Chipmunk (Tamias striatus)

by JR Kinyak on June 26, 2007

in Rodents

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My mom also wanted a chipmunk. There are some 25 species of chipmunk, all but one of which live in North America. The most common by far is the Eastern chipmunk. Did you know that most rodents have five toes on their back feet and four on their front? And the chipmunk is no exception. Also, if you want to tell the difference between a golden-mantled ground squirrel and a chipmunk, look at the face: the ground squirrel will never have stripes on its face, while the chipmunk always will.

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