Chipmunks are small striped rodents of the family Sciuridae. Chipmunks are found in North America with the exception of the Siberian which is found primarily in Asia.

Chipmunks may be classified either as a single genus Tamias or as three genera: Tamias which includes the eastern Eutamias which includes the Siberian and Neotamias which includes the 23 remaining mostly western species. These classifications are arbitrary and most taxonomies over the twentieth century have placed the chipmunks in a single genus. However studies of mitochondrial DNA show that the divergence between each of the three chipmunk groups is comparable to the genetic dissimilarity between Marmota and Spermophilus.

Chipmunks have an omnivorous diet primarily consisting of seeds nuts and other fruits and buds. They also commonly eat grass shoots and many other forms of plant matter as well as fungi insects and other arthropods small frogs worms and bird eggs. Around humans can eat cultivated grains and vegetables and other plants from farms and gardens so they are sometimes considered pests. Chipmunks mostly forage on the ground but they climb trees to obtain nuts such as hazelnuts and acorns. At the beginning of autumn many species of chipmunk begin to stockpile nonperishable foods for winter. They mostly cache their foods in a larder in their burrows and remain in their nests until spring unlike some other species which make many small caches of food. Cheek pouches allow chipmunks to carry food items to their burrows for either storage or consumption.

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