Chippie habitat
Chipmunks live in fallen logs and tree stumps in deciduous forests and in these.
Parks and yards.
Chipmunks spend most of their time in these.
What are underground burrows?
This rat lives anywhere people live and came to North America on ships from Europe.
What is the Norway Rat?
Norway rats have naked, scaly tails, wood rat tails are this.
What is fully furred?
All rats and chipmunks have these two strong senses,
What is smell and sight?
Tunnels in the chipmunks burrow can be this many feet long.
What is 30?
Chipmunks use these to collect and carry food, as well as carry soil when digging a burrow.
What are pouches?
Wood rats are not adaptable like Norway rats. They are wild. It would be rare to see one because they live here.
What is in remote habitats?
While Norway rats will eat anything, wood rats are herbivores and eat this.
What are leaves, fungi, berries, fruit, nut and acorns.
Rats and chipmunks are mammals in this genre.
What is rodent?
A chipmunks burrow is used for 3 things: nesting, resting and this.
What is food storage.
Chippies do this when frightened.
What is whistle or run with their tail raised?
Because the Norway rats numbers can get out of control and they love messy humans and trash, they are scavengers. They are known to carry this disease.
What is the plague, or bubonic plague?
Norway rats are hoarders. They will collect these.
What are shiny objects, bones and other treasures?
Rats and chipmunks are considered this based on what they eat.
What is omnivores?
Chipmunks sleep for weeks at a time in their dens in the winter in a hibernation like state called this.
What is Torpor?
Chipmunks use these chisel shaped teeth to eat nuts, seeds, fruits, snails and small mammals.
What are incisors?
Because of their reliance on this type of food, wood rats have been threatened to the point of endangerment.
What is nuts?
Wood rats are prone to a parasitic disease from raccoons. They are roundworms spread in this from raccoons.
What is scat or droppings?
Chipmunks front feet have 4claws and one of these.
What is a thumb?
Nests are made from dry leaves and grasses and keep babies warm and safe. The babies are born in this month.
What is April or May.
Chippies go into their burrows in the summer to stay cool and rest in a process called this.
What is estivation?
The woodrat makes its nest of bark, twigs and leaves, located here.
Where is on boulder crevices, cliff or cave floors?
The woodrat tail is furry with these two colors on the top and bottom.
What is brown on top and white on the bottom?
Chipmunks keep a 2 inch wide opening to their burrow that they keep hidden under these.
What is rocks, tree stumps or something similar?