Cliff Chipmunk
Neotamias dorsalis
- Class
- Mammal
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 2,272
- Most observed in
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The cliff chipmunk (Neotamias dorsalis) is a small, bushy-tailed squirrel that typically lives along cliff walls or boulder fields bordering Pinyon-juniper woodlands in the Western United States and Mexico (commonly spotted in northern Arizona to Colorado). Cliff chipmunks are very agile, and can often be seen scaling steep cliff walls. Cliff chipmunks do not amass body fat as the more common ground squirrel does.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Cliff chipmunk”.