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a fistful of fur powered by anxiety and cheeks that double as grocery bags
means a small striped North American ground squirrel known for stuffing food into its cheek pouches
from From an Ojibwe word, often given as 'ajidamoo' or similar, meaning roughly 'one who descends trees headfirst' — the name passed into English in the early 1800s, getting reshaped along the way into the cheerier-sounding 'chipmunk,' possibly nudged by the 'chip' of its chattering call.
- cheek capacity
- stuffs food up to body size in cheek pouches
- underground architect
- digs burrows over 30 feet long
- winter strategy
- hibernates but wakes to snack on hoarded stash
- heartbeat
- races at 350 beats per minute
- solo lifestyle
- fiercely solitary except during brief mating season
for instance
alvin and the chipmunks — animated/live-action franchise with alvin, simon, theodore since 1958
eastern chipmunk — tamias striatus, common across eastern north america from canada to oklahoma