Chipmunk - These small, striped squirrels are common backyard residents that feed on a variety of plant and animal materials, from fruits and nuts to insects and salamanders.
Chipmunk (genus Tamias), any of 25 species of small, striped, terrestrial squirrels with large internal cheek pouches used for transporting food.
The three-striped ground squirrel (L. insignis), also of the Sunda Islands, is reported to eat fruit, roots, and insects; plain long-nosed ground squirrels (genus Dremomys) eat fruit, insects, and earthworms.
A scrabble of claws is a ground squirrel, striped gold like a chipmunk.
Southern flying squirrels, striped skunks, and masked shrews all transmitted A. phagocytophilum to ticks, but our sample sizes were too small to draw strong conclusions about reservoir competence.
Flying squirrels, striped skunks, and masked shrews all transmitted B. microti to ticks, but sample sizes were smaller than those of the other 11 species, leaving us unable to make firm conclusions about relative levels of reservoir competence.
He was wearing a blue pin-striped suit, and a squirrel with a Tam o' Shanter was perched on his shoulder, looking right at home.
The shipment included several rodent species including Gambian rats (Cricetomys spp ., rope squirrels (Funisciurus spp ., dormice (Graphiurus spp ., sun squirrels (Heliosciurus spp ., striped mice (Lemiscomys barbarus), and brush-tailed porcupines (Atherurus africanus).
Smaller mammals of the lower- and middle-elevation forests include the American badger, striped skunk, bobcat, golden beaver, and northern flying squirrel.
The shipment contained ≈800 small mammals of 9 different species, including 6 genera of African rodents (762 rodents total): rope squirrels, tree squirrels, Gambian giant rats, brushtail porcupines, dormice, and striped mice (1, 2 ), as well as cusimanses, genets, and palm civets (9 ).
They are: tree squirrels, rope squirrels, dormice, Gambian giant pouched rats, brush-tailed porcupines and striped mice.
