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SpeciesRodentiaSciuridae
Mammals

🐿️Eastern chipmunk

Tamias striatus (Linnaeus, 1758)

سنجابچه شرقی یا سنجاب راه‌راه شرقی (نام علمی: Tamias striatus) نام یک گونه از سرده سمورچه است.

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Also called
Tamias striatus, Eastern American Chipmunk
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2016.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
0.09 kg
Body length
0.17 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
9.49 years
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Everything we know about the Eastern chipmunk

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.09 kg
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 0.1 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length
0.17 m
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Brain mass
2.17 g
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Maximum lifespan
9.49 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 9.5 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length
3.18 years
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Age at maturity
199 days
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Gestation
31 days
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  • 31 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size
about 4
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  • 5AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic level
Omnivore
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Activity cycle
Diurnal
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Population density
565 per km²
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Volume l
0.1 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Eastern chipmunk yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderRodentia
  5. ›familySciuridae
  6. ›genusTamias
  7. ›speciesTamias striatus
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. orderRodents · Rodentia
  3. tribeMarmotini
  4. genusTamias
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classMammals · Mammalia
  9. subclassTheria
  10. superorderEuarchontoglires
  11. orderRodents · Rodentia
  12. suborderSciuromorpha
  13. familySciuridae
  14. tribeMarmotini
  15. genusTamias
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What it eats
seeds and grain30%
leaves, roots and other plants30%
insects and other invertebrates20%
fruit20%
In other languages
Streifen-Backenhörnchen (de), Ραβδωτός ταμίας (el), Tamias striatus (fr), Oostelijke wangzakeekhoorn (nl), Восточный бурундук (ru), Östlig chipmunk (sv) … and 20 more languages
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