Rodents of Yosemite #2 & #3: Chipmunks!

[jaffa_tamarin]

Depending on where you live, chipmunk identification is either dead easy (for most of the eastern USA, the only chipmunk you might see would be an eastern chipmunk), or very very tricky. Yosemite is one of the very very tricky locations -- there are nine species of chipmunk living in the California part of the Sierra Nevada. Apparently the

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[schnee]

Cute.

Chipmunk identification here is easy, too: whatever it is, it isn't a chipmunk (unless you're in a zoo, but then all bets are off anyway). :)