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Chipmunks do hibernate. While chipmunks in general are not true hibernators, they tend to remain in their underground chambers during the winter months. In its northern range the chipmunk goes underground about the end of October but sleeps...
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Chipmunks and Squirrels question: Why do chipmunks hibernate during the winter? Chipmunks don't actually hibernate. They just store a lot of food in their burrows and sleep for the winter. Every so often, ... Why chipmunks hibernate? Wh do chipmunks hibernate? Do all chipmunks hibernate? How long do chipmunks hibernate?
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Chipmunks hibernate, but instead of storing fat, they periodically dip into their cache of nuts and seeds throughout the winter. Their shrill, repeated, birdlike chirp is usually made upon sensing a threat but is also thought to be used as a mating call by females.
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Chipmunks are rodents that live in forests, open woodlands, and brushy areas in North America and Asia. There are about 17 different species of chipmunks. Chipmunks hibernate during the cold winter months. These small mammals have a life span of about 2 to 3 years in the wild.
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www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/mammals/rodent/Chipm...
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There are twenty five species of Chipmunk. The chipmunk spends almost the entire day foraging, and storing food. At times this is done from sunrise to sunset, and it is not unusual for them to harvest a bushel of nuts in a three day period.
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Some animals sleep all winter. It is a very deep sleep called hibernation. They need little or no food. Bears and chipmunks hibernate. So do frogs, snakes and even some bugs.
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www.sciencemadesimple.com/animals.html
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Although people think chipmunks hibernate, they don't go into deep hibernation. They actually move around during warmer weather. They live on the food they have brought into their burrows. Most chipmunks come out of their hibernation in March.
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www.blueplanetbiomes.org/eastern_chipmunk.htm
www.blueplanetbiomes.org/eastern_chipmunk.htm
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The least chipmunk is the smallest of all chipmunks and similar in appearance to North Dakota's only other chipmunk species, the eastern chipmunk. Both chipmunks are characterized by having black stripes that run down the middle and sides of their back. ... These living quarters also provide an area for chipmunks to hibernate.
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www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/mammals/mammals/least.htm
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