Frog And The Chipmunk

Ecology and life history
Eastern chipmunks mate in early spring and again in early summer, producing litters four or five young twice each year. Western chipmunks only breed once a year. The young emerge from the burrow after about six weeks and strike out on their own within the next two weeks.
These small mammals fulfill several important functions in forest ecosystems. Their activities harvesting and hoarding tree seeds play a crucial role in seedling establishment. They consume many different kinds fungi, including those involved in symbiotic mycorrhizal associations with trees, and are an important vector for dispersal the spores subterranean sporocarps (truffles) which have co-evolved with these and other mycophagous mammals and thus lost the ability to disperse their spores through the air.