A dead chipmunk at Lake Tahoe has tested positive for bubonic plague.” That’s the first sentence of a Reno Gazette-Journal story. Many subsequent sentences go on to say this happens with some ...

They developed into a unique subspecies through isolation from other least chipmunks by desert lowlands. WildEarth Guardians petitioned to add the Peñasco least chipmunk to the endangered list in 2011 ...

The chipmunk is rapidly edging out the ground squirrel, which is native to the desert. Chipmunks climb trees and ground squirrels don't, or rarely do. We also have kangaroo rats with their ...

Either the “Alvin and the Chipmunks” movies are getting better, or I’ve accidentally buried my brain for the winter. The third entry in the franchise — “Chip-Wrecked” — is ...