Cute Chipmunks Funny and Cute Chipmunk Videos Compilation (2018) Ardillas Adorables Recopilación

2018-03-13 16:02:18

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Cute Chipmunks Funny and Cute Chipmunk Videos Compilation 2018 Ardillas Adorables Video Recopilación Animal Planet VideosChipmunks are cute and funny Chipmunks are awesome Check out these cute chipmunks and funny chipmunks in this cute and funny chipmunk videos compilation Las ardillas son lindas y adorables Las ardillas son increíbles Vea esta divertida recopilación de vídeos de ardillas VIDEO PLAYLISTS Chipmunks are small striped rodents of the family Sciuridae Chipmunks are found in North America with the exception of the Siberian chipmunk which is found primarily in Asia Chipmunks may be classified either as a single genus Tamias Greek ταμίας or as three genera Tamias which includes the eastern chipmunk Eutamias which includes the Siberian chipmunk 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 The genus name Tamias is Greek for treasurer steward or housekeeper which is a reference to the animals role in plant dispersal through their habit of collecting and storing food for winter use The common name originally may have been spelled chitmunk from the native Odawa Ottawa word jidmoonh meaning red squirrel cf Ojibwe ajidamoo The earliest form cited in the Oxford English Dictionary from 1842 is chipmonk however chipmunk appears in several books from the 1820s and 1830s Other early forms include chipmuck and chipminck and in the 1830s they were also referred to as chip squirrels probably in reference to the sound they make In the mid 1800s John James Audubon and his sons included a lithograph of the chipmunk in their Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America calling it the chipping squirrel or hackee Chipmunks have also been referred to as striped squirrels timber tigers and ground squirrels although the name ground squirrel usually refers to other squirrels such as those of the genus Spermophilus