![]() ![]() Their activities harvesting and hoarding tree seeds play a crucial role in seedling establishment. These small mammals fulfill several important functions in forest ecosystems. The young emerge from the burrow after about six weeks and strike out on their own within the next two weeks. Western chipmunks breed only once a year. Ecology and life historyĮastern chipmunk at the entrance of its burrowĮastern chipmunks, the largest of the chipmunks, mate in early spring and again in early summer, producing litters of four or five young twice each year. Cheek pouches allow chipmunks to carry food items to their burrows for either storage or consumption. They mostly cache their foods in a larder in their burrows and remain in their nests until spring, unlike some other species which make multiple small caches of food. At the beginning of autumn, many species of chipmunk begin to stockpile nonperishable foods for winter. Chipmunks mostly forage on the ground, but they climb trees to obtain nuts such as hazelnuts and acorns. Around humans, chipmunks can eat cultivated grains and vegetables, and other plants from farms and gardens, so they are sometimes considered pests. They will also occasionally eat newly hatched baby birds. They also commonly eat grass, shoots, and many other forms of plant matter, as well as fungi, insects and other arthropods, small frogs, worms, and bird eggs. I couldn’t go onstage with the seven-year-old sitting there, because then the whole show would be my character saying lines like, “Do you ever fuck in the grocery store?” and the whole audience would swivel their heads over to the kid to check in if he was traumatized yet.An eastern chipmunk placing food in its cheek pouchĬhipmunks have an omnivorous diet primarily consisting of seeds, nuts and other fruits, and buds. ![]() My last show, FEAST., was a blood-and-gore-fueled revenge fantasy about fighting authoritarianism where my character described her favorite disembowelments, and one night we had to hold the curtain because a seven-year-old was sitting in the front row. They see my big open face and figure it’s just a matter of time before I pop a puppet on my hand to teach them about colors.Īnd it doesn’t actually matter what the show is about. The title suggests a comedy, which is good, but it’s also a problem, because I give off the vibe of a children’s television host, and it’s not that kind of show. When was the last time you looked at anything and didn’t feel a little existential dread? It’s in the air! I decided not to worry about the existential dread part, as I figured viewers would bring that themselves. My new play is called Chipmunk’d, and it’s a sexy comedy about existential dread. This is very silent film star, only in a chipmunk costume. We would have liked to do the shoot closer to home, but Wisconsin was the only place we could find a heart-shaped bed. We headed out to the Don Q Inn in Dodgeville, Wisconsin where we’d rented the Cupid’s Corner themed suite. CHIPMUNK PICTURES PLUSThe chipmunk costume was in its own special box, and Chris had packed his camera and lighting equipment, plus there were boxes with our specially bought acorn pillows and feather boas. When we loaded up the car, I was surprised at how much stuff we had. We’d been gathering props for a few weeks now. When I got home, I threw the makeup in the bag with the costume. ![]() She hooked me up with the red matte lipstick I wanted (MAC, darlings), and set me up with my first pair of false eyelashes since college. It was like people had come in there asking for makeup to look like sexy rodents every day. One of the consultants reacted like I’d feared: all wide-eyed and agog and midwestern, he reeled backwards, like he couldn’t be a part of this conversation, or else he’d go to jail. “I’m doing a photo shoot where I’m dressed as a…a sexy squirrel.” I just couldn’t bring myself to say, “….sexy chipmunk.” It was too embarrassing. “I’m doing a photo shoot where I’m dressed as a…” and I lost my nerve. “Can we help you find something?” one of them asked. Photo by Chris Rich.Īt the makeup store, two consultants approached me. ![]()
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