- Cliff chipmunk
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Cliff chipmunk 
Conservation status Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Sciuridae Genus: Neotamias Species: N. dorsalis Binomial name Neotamias dorsalis
(Baird, 1855)Synonyms Tamias dorsalis Baird, 1855
The cliff chipmunk (Neotamias dorsalis) is a small, bushy-tailed squirrel that typically lives along cliff walls or boulder fields bordering Pinyon-juniper woodlands in the Western United States and Mexico. Cliff chipmunks are very agile, and can often be seen scaling steep cliff walls. Cliff chipmunks do not amass body fat as the more common ground squirrel does. They create a "stash" of food which they frequent during the cold winter months.
References
- ^ Linzey, A. V., Timm, R., Álvarez-Castañeda, S. T., Castro-Arellano, I. & Lacher, T. (2008). Tamias dorsalis. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 8 January 2009.
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