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Cliff Chipmunk (Neotamias dorsalis)

Cliff Chipmunk (Tamias dorsalis)
Cliff Chipmunk (Tamias dorsalis)

About Cliff Chipmunk (Neotamias dorsalis)

  • Kingdom: Animals
  • Phylum: Chordates
  • Class: Mammals
  • Order: Rodents
  • Family: Squirrels

The cliff chipmunk is a small, bushy-tailed squirrel that typically lives along cliff walls or boulder fields bordering Pinyon-juniper woodlands in the Western United States and Mexico. Cliff chipmunks are very agile, and can often be seen scaling steep cliff walls. Cliff chipmunks do not amass body fat as the more common ground squirrel does. They create caches of food which they frequent during the cold winter months.

Source: Wikipedia

Visits

  • 2008-03-06

    Zion National Park, United States of America
    Angel's Landing Trail.
    Image from 2008-03-06
  • 2014-05-09

    Cave Creek Canyon--Southwestern Research Station, United States of America
    Image from 2014-05-09