Hopi chipmunk
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| Tamias rufus (Hoffmeister and Ellis, 1979) |
The Hopi chipmunk (Tamias rufus or Neotamias rufus) is a small chipmunk found in Colorado, Utah and New Mexico in the southwestern United States. It was previously grouped with the Colorado Chipmunk, T. quadrivittatus.[1]
Hopi chipmunks, naturally timid creatures, live in rock piles or crevices of broken rock. They are quick and agile on sheer rock faces of canyons and other similar surfaces. This allows them to acquire seeds from the shrubs that extend from the surface of these rock formations.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ ZipcodeZoo (2004-2007). Tamias rufus (Hopi Chipmunk) (HTML). The BayScience Foundation, Inc.. Retrieved on 2007-07-26.
- ^ North American Mammals: Tamias rufus
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