#0360 · 🦊 mammals

Cliff Chipmunk

🇳🇱 Klifchipmunk ·Neotamias dorsalis

LCleast concern 🦊 Mammals 📍 outside Europe

9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © David Baake · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Katja Schulz · CC BY 4.0
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4. © Antonio Xeira · CC BY-NC 4.0
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7. © Laura Gaudette · CC BY 4.0
8. © Rob Van Epps · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. © severinus · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The cliff chipmunk ( Tamias dorsalis ) 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 (commonly spotted in northern Arizona to Colorado). 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 a "stash" of food which they frequent during the cold...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 3,928iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).