catching chipmunks

at my grandparents cabin they have little piles of birdseed everywhere. they attract lots of neat birds but the fun thing to watch are the chipmunks. there is a large stump on the back porch that always has birdseed on it and the chipmunks love it. you can hear their little feet scurrying across the wood porch all day long and they fight over the seeds and it's just funny to watch. well my grandpa told chris he didn't think chris could catch a chipmunk. wrong thing to say. next thing i know, chris is out on the porch with some gloves on, waiting to catch a chipmunk. after a few failed attempts he had one pinned between the side of the stumpt and his hand. the poor little guy was scared to death. i grabbed a pair of gloves and chris handed the chipmunk to me. after a few pictures and passing him back and forth between chris and i we let him go. i figured that after that the chipmunks would be afraid to go back to the birdseed for fear of getting caught. no way. within seconds, they were back at it, fighting and scurrying around the stump, feasting on birdseed. i couldn't help but be grateful for the fact that humans are the smartest creatures on earth.