I’ve looked and looked and can’t find out what a group of chipmunks is called.
If you can answer this question I guarantee I will send you naked pictures of myself.*
*not a guarantee
An Alvin?
The term you want to search on, if you haven’t already tried it, is “collective noun.”
A dray?
Scarlett67, thanks for that tip. Even with using that term, i’m still unable to find the answer.
I’m pretty sure a dray is a squirrels nest.
This guy says that there isn’t one.
However, most sites on Google (when searching - collective noun “squirrel” -) say that “dray” is the noun.
A cutefest?
Truth be told, I’ve never seen more than one chipmunk at a time. I think they’re fiercely territorial.
Chipmunks are solitary critters, so there isn’t an ‘official’ collective term (according to my old zoology prof). However, the term coteries has been used to describe groups of prarie dogs and (sometimes) ground squirrels.
Let’s coin one: How about “a chatter of chipmunks”?
A chatter?
I suspect there is no such word because there is no reason for one. Chipmunks, I think, are solitary animals, except for breeding and then it’s just a pair, and do not form groups as do geese, wolves, etc.
I have a large yard and have set it up as a kind of chipmunk sanctuary. At any given time in my yard you can see a dozen or more of them at once. Some I’m able to identify and most will sit on my lap and eat sunflower seeds from my hand. I know of 9 or so homes (hole in the ground) around my yard, including two under my house and one under the green house. I’ve seen two mothers bringing there tiny (eyes still closed) babies to new homes they’ve made in my yard.
Chefguy I think I like that idea “a chatter of chipmunks”. Although with the amount of chirping they do a “chirpy of chipmunks” would work as well.
rabbit = nest
mouse = nest
chipmonk = rabbit + mouse
therefore:
chipmonk = nest
One of the chippys has a harelip. I think he has a cleft palat as well because he makes odd noises.
Hmmm when I searched for collective nouns, I came up with vaccuum cleaner, wastebasket and flypaper.
I think I remembered that one from “Weekly Reader” a long time ago.
Only on the SDMB. Just when it looks like there isn’t a (correct) answer to the question because of a technicality, the exception to the rule pops up.
Now we definately need to answer this relevant question.
I vote for ‘chatter of chipmunks’, although I think some term that referred to their habit of stuffing their cheeks with nuts would be appropriate also: Cheeky? Pooch? How about Cram? A cram of chipmunks.
We could also go to the surreal: a ‘Chippendale’ of chipmunks. 
Hey, if there’s any prize money involved I want half. I was the victim of a synchro-post and mine came in second.
<— thinking about going to law school
Chipmonastery?
I’ve got it!
A chorus line of chipmunks!
Brings in the whole chippendale bad pun, and if they’re all chattering, well that’s a chorus.
Ha!