Once in the canopy, chipmunks locate cluster of beechnuts by sight and then nip them off, returning to the ground a few minutes later to retrieve them. During years of abundant beech mast, nuts are ...

First of all, squirrels and chipmunks both belong to the family Sciuridae, which includes small and medium rodents. We call this the squirrel family, and it consists of ground squirrels (and yes ...