Kwasi studies two species in particular that make their homes in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California: the alpine chipmunk and the lodgepole chipmunk. With the climate warming and high ...

Delving into the deep Museum of Vertebrate Zoology archives, the Berkeley team sampled skin from the actual alpine chipmunks Grinnell trapped in Yosemite nearly a century ago, had the samples ...

Genetic diversity in alpine chipmunks is in decline due to geographic shifts in their environment. Small mammals in the Yosemite region of California have been forced to move to higher elevations ...

Ms Hammond therefore put it to the test in the wild. She and her colleagues attached the new trackers to 15 alpine chipmunks and 15 lodgepole chipmunks living in Yosemite national park ...