Sacramento Bee Reports The Vanish Of Chipmunks
October 5th, 2010 - 7:09 pm ICT by GDBy Meena Kar
After many other animals it is probably the time for Sierra Nevada inhabitant, Inyo chipmunk, to go Dodo’s way. This striped cheeked, bushy tailed, and button brown eyed chipmunk species has played around in the Sierra Nevada for several centuries. Now, they can no more be located.
The reason for their sudden disappearance has been pertained to several reasons like too much of pollution in the location, fights and competition from other Chipmunk species and most importantly, the change in weather, that has increased the level of temperature that has brought about increased snow melts and changes in the general weather conditions in the forests for the pat few years. James Patton, a retired UC Berkeley professor of zoology says that despite trying real hard for the past two years, to find this sub species in every nook and corner of Sierra Nevada, the animal was not found anywhere. He also added, that there has a drastic decrease in the total number of other Chipmunks species from that area. If this species is really extinct, then this would be for the first in many centuries that the mountain ranges of Sierra will witness the extinction of a mammal.
James Patton feels that there must have been something wrong somewhere, because, all the other species of Chipmunks are there in plenty. Only Inyo chipmunk cannot be located anywhere. There might be possibilities of its existence in the colder parts of the mountain ranges, but he is not very hopeful about the matter as he has also conducted his research in the colder regions of Sierra. This mountain range is also the abode of other species of chipmunks, like alpine chipmunks and Uintah chipmunk.
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