Uinta Chipmunk resting on a sunlit boulder, Uinta Mountains, Uinta National Forest, Summit County, Utah

Uinta Chipmunk Images, Facts and Information:

Neotamias umbrinus

  • Uinta Chipmunks are medium sized chipmunks with three wide, distinct dark blackish-brown stripes run down the back, separated and surrounded by four paler stripes of pale grey to white fur. Their ears are black, and the underparts a very pale grey. Their tails have orange and black fur, with a paler fringe of hair on the underside.
  • Uinta Chipmunks live in montane and subalpine forests of the western United States between 4,590 and 11,980 ft elevation. It is most common at the margins of pine and fir forests, or in clearings, often near rocky terrain or steep slopes. Uinta chipmunks do not have a continuous, unbroken range, but are instead found in a number of disjunct localities in eight western states, including Nevada, Utah, northern Arizona, eastern California, northwestern Colorado, western and southern Wyoming, eastern Idaho, and southern Montana.
  • Uinta Chipmunks are herbivorous. Their primary diet consists of the seeds of coniferous trees such as Douglas fir, ponderosa pine, juniper, and spruce, and on the fruit of local shrubs such as wild roses and chokecherries.
  • Uinta Chipmunk females gives birth to a single litter of three to five young after a gestation period around 30 days. The young are weaned around 25 days of age, and begin to leave the burrow shortly thereafter.

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