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Tamias sibiricusRelease date：2021-12-10

Chipmunk (scientific name: Tamias sibiricus), also known as birch rat, five eyebrows, coot stick, and chipmunk, belongs to the genus Chipmunks of the Squirrel family. It is named after several light and dark parallel vertical stripes on its back. It is of medium size with a long tail, long and fluffy tail hair, which is broom-like and extends to the sides. The limbs are slightly longer, and the ear shells are clearly exposed outside the coat.
Chipmunks are distributed in China's Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Sichuan, Henan, and distributed outside of China in the former Soviet Union Siberia to Ussuri and Sakhalin, North Korea and northern Japan .

This species has been included in the "Nationally Protected List of Terrestrial Wild Animals with Important Economic and Scientific Value" issued by the State Forestry Administration on August 1, 2000.

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