Welcoming a chipmunk to your home
This is one of the precious videos from Choo-Choo’s Story, on how they got Wally to enter their home as welcomed guest.
My favorite chippie channel…
Category: Animal Kingdom
A little Tico for a Monday
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And after a mind-bending post earlier on cosmology, I present a singing bird that makes no demands on your brain. Just lend an ear and eye for some unique entertainment from a frugivorous fellow.
Ants performing surgery?
Fascinating. Ants perform lifesaving operations — the only animal other than humans known to do so, an article written by Jacklin Kwan, published July 2, 2024.
Florida ants perform amputations and clean wounds to prevent the spread of infection, scientists discover. Ants in Florida perform life-saving surgery on their peers, scientists have discovered. They are only the second animal in the world known to do this — along with humans…
Facts about chipmunks
Need About 15 Hours of Sleep Per Day – At least that’s true of chipmunks in captivity.
They are a Type of Squirrel – Weighing in at 1 to 5 ounces (28 to 142 grams), chipmunks are among the most diminutive members of the squirrel family. That means these pocket-sized rodents are also related to woodchucks and prairie dogs, which share a branch on the squirrel family tree as well…
The Elusive Maned Sloths of Brazil
I love receiving newsletters from www.slothconservation.org in Costa Rica, a place I would love to visit in the near future. My buddy keeps saying, “Marion, you must visit!”
From the newsletter…
And then there were five!
Yesterday, we hadn’t seen any of our four chippies, and were starting to fear the worst. All the seed we put out in the morning was still there. Oh no! But this morning when we awoke, there were signs that they were back. Maybe yesterday was a holiday and they were taking a chippie hiatus. You never know.
Well, they are back in force and I’m happy to report that there’s now a fifth…