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If Lost Please Return To Chestnut The Chipmunk

28785 S. Pine Tree

CO.12872

Age 1

Food: nuts

Place: Hollow Tree

Time of year: Spring and Summer

Crash, boom! Its time for dinner, chipmunks Hello I am Chestnut the chipmunk. I am an astonishing creature because I have three distinguished qualities. My digging skills are out of this world, my burrows are unique, I have outrageously keen senses and love to eat food.

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Chomp, chomp my mouth is watering just thinking about these luscious summer foods. They include strawberries, blueberries, and raspberries, choke cherries, wild grasses, pine seeds, and nuts……….YUMMY! I bury my food underground so no one, except those tricky mice, can find it. I comprise built in pouches in my cheeks that can store all of my food. 3,700 blueberry seeds can fit in my plump cheeks. While cracking open those yummy nuts, I keep my tawny incisors from getting too long.

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I am a fabulous digger especially when I tunnel in dirt, concrete or ice. I can dig extremely rapid up to 30 feet underground. Big heaps of soil, from digging my tunnels, outside my front door is a dead giveaway to potential predators peering for me and awaiting their next meal.

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My senses are wonderful and I comprise sharp hearing so no one can sneak up on me My ears will hear if a predator comes near and my sensitive hairs help me find my way around in the night time I acquire bright wide eyes that help me see too and I will bite the predator who comes nearSmall spots are on my forehead and I can peer in both directions and up and down.

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I use the same burrow all of my life I never venture farther then 160 feet from my burrow to stay in safety range. It provides me with a safe place to rest while a predator is hunting for me. I change my burrow by adding more rooms and I have my summer home above ground so I can stay cool. I wedge my fork of branches or hollow logs and my burrow is made out of twigs and leaves It looks similar to a covered bird nest with a hole in one side

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I posses an exiting life, unlike Bob the Bighorn don’t I? So vote for me! Chestnut the Chipmunk! I posses great senses, communication, and adoptions

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