behold, a chipmunk

[asenathwaite]

Comments

[turlough]

So cute!

[shirebound]

Such a pretty little critter.

[jesse_the_k]

So pretty to see, so annoying when they eat my bulbs.

[yunwan_squirrel]

Cute little baby. It's actually been quite awhile since I've seen one. They're not as urban as grey squirrels, I guess, at least not around here.

[thenewbuzwuzz]

Oh my, that's adorable! Thank you!

[shadowkat]

Great picture and couldn't have been easy to get. Chipmunks don't like to hold still for pictures.

[chestnut_pod]

A baby! Look at its wee little hands.

[yourlibrarian]

Cuteness!

[pameladean]

Its ears are so long! The only chipmunk I'm really familiar with is the Easter Chipmunk, but I'm thinking this must be a different species?

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[yunwan_squirrel]

Possibly this, based on the OP's profile location? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-tailed_chipmunk

[pameladean]

Oh, yes, that looks very probable. Thank you!

And of course, sadly enough, there is no such thing as the Easter Chipmunk, I just failed to put enough pressure on the N key.

I'm strangely tempted to invent the Easter chipmunk now.

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[rain_gryphon]

That was really striking to me as well. I'm used to tiny round ears on chipmunks.

[yunwan_squirrel]

Interesting, a quick search through Google suggests that most of the species found West of the Rockies( which is a surprising number of them, though they don't look hugely different to me), have longer, pointier ears than those to the east. One could postulate a story where someone figures out a location based on a chipmunk sighting.

[pameladean]

That is one of my favorite kinds of things in stories.

And yes, they are all clearly chipmunks, all right.

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