Due to the influence of popular culture, most people tend to think of chipmunks as small, cute, and harmless animals. After all, we’ve grown up with cartoon characters like Alvin (of “Alvin and the Chipmunks” fame) or Chip and Dale (from the old Disney cartoons of the same name).

In some ways, we have been conditioned to think of these creatures as gentle acorn-hunters who would never hurt anything. However, all is not as it seems. Let’s address the issue by answering a simple question: “Do chipmunks eat birds?”

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Any pet owner has a fundamental obligation to keep their animals safe from harm. Unfortunately, nature can throw all sorts of hazards at your pet, so it’s good to consider as many of them as possible.

Chipmunks certainly do not seem like threatening creatures, but some threats are less obvious than others. Although they are not a major hazard, chipmunks are potentially hazardous to your pets.

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The Chipmunk is one of the most recognizable animals in the forest of North America thanks to its distinctive white dots and stripes, meanwhile its chirps and the reasons behind them remain a mystery to many people. 

So why do Chipmunks chirp?  

The reason Chipmunks Chirp is for territorial defense and to warn other chipmunks  of nearby predators.

Let’s take a closer look into the types of chirps used and why. 

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Chipmunks are some of the cutest animals around as long as you are not trying to keep them out of your garden! I have fun feeding the little guys and seeing how far they can stretch out those adorable cheeks.

Chipmunks will eat a wide variety of foods but they have their favorites and one of them is pretty strange!  There are also a few foods that they tend to avoid as well as some foods that you should never feed them.

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Feeding a baby chipmunk, especially a newborn, is a delicate, time consuming and complicated job.  In fact, caring for a newborn requires much more than simply feeding it and actually requires you to act like a Mother chipmunk.  You are going to need to keep the animal warm and calm, help it poop and monitor its stool to make sure that you are not overfeeding.

This article will show you everything you need to know to take care of a baby chipmunk.

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Have you ever stumbled across a chipmunk’s burrow system? Given how extensive these things can be, you probably assumed that chipmunks follow some kind of joint family structure where they live together in their burrows. At least that’s what I thought until a quick search on chipmunks and their living habits told me otherwise.

Some of the results of my search were ambiguous at best, but here’s what I found out when I dug into the question, “How many chipmunks live in a burrow?”

Research indicates that, except for when a mother is raising her babies, only one chipmunk lives in a burrow.

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When I was growing up in Kentucky I always had a ton of fun watching the chipmunks grabbing bird seed that had spilled from the feeders.  These little guys are the smallest member of the squirrel family and share a lot of behaviors with their larger cousins, the grey and red squirrels.

Tree squirrels do not hibernate to get through the winter and instead rely upon stored food to get through the winter.  However, most chipmunks perform a modified form of hibernation which made me wonder if they go through the trouble of storing up winter food caches.

So, the question of the day is, “Do chipmunks bury nuts?”

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