The critter series: Each month, an Illinois animal making itself known in our yards, gardens and neighborhoods will be featured. Scroll down to post your own drawings, photos and videos and vote for ...

Claim to fame: Thanks to Alvin and his animated brothers and Disney’s Chip and Dale, most of us have at least heard of these small, scurrying rodents. Although smaller than their cartoon ...

Chipmunks and woodchucks are entirely different rodent species, but they apparently speak the same language when it comes to alarm. Despite belonging to a different genus, eastern chipmunks take heed ...

Small, furry and cute, the Eastern chipmunk is a common woodland critter in the state and it may well be coming to a vegetable patch near you. Gardeners in Maine are trying anything they can think of ...

We are fortunate to live in an area that is as resplendent in wildlife as our great outdoors provide. I recently got a great picture of a black bear on my trail camera that has been hanging out around ...

Looks like: Normally, these small rodents are grayish to reddish brown with a distinguishing yellowish-red patch on their rumps. They have a yellow underbelly, while their sides and back have five ...

Let’s take a trip down memory lane. Remember those days when television was still in black and white and Chip & Dale were two furry rodent friends of Pluto? Let’s talk about chipmunks. The Eastern ...

Eastern chipmunks are more like woodland squirrels. While they climb trees, each spends most of its time in a complex underground burrow, which has food storage chambers and two or more entrances.

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