Swimming Eastern Chipmunks, Tamias striatus, and Hairy-tailed Mole, Parascalops breweri, in Kawartha Highlands Provincial Park, Ontario

Authors

  • Root Gorelick Department of Biology and School of Mathematics and Statistics, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6
  • Susan M. Bertram Department of Biology, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22621/cfn.v122i1.549

Keywords:

Eastern Chipmunk, Tamias striatus, Hairy-tailed Mole, Parascalops breweri, natatory behaviour, swimming

Abstract

We report swimming Eastern Chipmunks, Tamias striatus, and a swimming Hairy-tailed Mole, Parascalops breweri, in southern Ontario in Kawartha Highlands Provincial Park. Although naturally swimming Eastern Chipmunks have been seen before, they have never been previously documented in the literature. Ours appears to be the first photograph of a swimming Hairy-tailed Mole and the first report of one successfully and apparently voluntarily swimming.

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Vol. 122 No. 1 (2008)

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