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- This article is about the animal. For the military training aircraft, see De Havilland Chipmunk.
Chipmunk is the common name for any small squirrel-like rodent species of the genus Tamias in the family Sciuridae. About 23 species fall under this title, with one species in northeastern Asia, one in the eastern portions of Canada and the US, and the rest native to the western part of North America. The name may have originally been spelled "chitmunk" (perhaps from the Ojibwe word ajidamoo, meaning "red squirrel"). However, the earliest form cited in the Oxford English Dictionary (from 1842) is "chipmonk". Other early forms include "chipmuck" and "chipminck", and in the 1830s they were also referred to as "chip squirrels", possibly in reference to the sound they make. They are also called striped squirrel or ground squirrel; however, the name "ground squirrel" is more usually kept for the genus Spermophilus, though Tamias and Spermophilus are only two of the 13 genera of ground-living sciurids.
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MrCrazybears101 (kayleetravelteddy1) Sat, 19 Dec 2009 06:06:29 -0000
I favorited a YouTube video -- ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS 2 TRAILER #3 : The Squeakquel http://bit.ly/6RXEEN
@amazechristianl Today we did one for pure comedy, we did We're the Chipmunks, we're gonna do Bigger by BSB as a legit one in a few days!!
ReggieP08 (Reggie Patterson) Sat, 19 Dec 2009 06:06:06 -0000
@amazechristianl Today we did one for pure comedy, we did We're the Chipmunks, we're gonna do Bigger by BSB as a legit one in a few days!!
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tamafarikha (Khotama Farikha) Sat, 19 Dec 2009 06:05:13 -0000
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NerdxKidd (Jessica Holman) Sat, 19 Dec 2009 06:03:18 -0000
I wanna gonna go see alvin n the chipmunks on wed. who wanna go? I'm down to go
listening to The Twelve Days of Christmas by The Chipmunks on @Grooveshark: http://tinysong.com/bO1U
RyanLythall (Ryan Lythall) Sat, 19 Dec 2009 06:02:32 -0000
listening to The Twelve Days of Christmas by The Chipmunks on @Grooveshark: http://tinysong.com/bO1U
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