Huh. When I was a kid, we used to spend a lot of time up at a relative's cottage in "northern" Ontario (on Lake Nipissing, same lake as North Bay). There were lots of chipmunks, but they were not shy.
We would come out the front door of the cottage, sit on the edge of the concrete steps with peanuts in our hands, and the chipmunks would come perch in your lap or on your arm and eat them (the peanuts, not your flesh) without a care in the world.
Different behaviours - different species? Just environment? Weird.












