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11-22-2006, 11:59 AM | #1 |
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what color are your squirrels?
In this area most are grey. We have some white ones. People say they're albino but I argue that albinism is a recessive gene, and very rare, so there wouldn't be so many of them. Also, their eyes aren't pink.
I have seen black squirrels in the Lake Erie region. I saw a red and white one, too. My ex had found it and taken a picture because we had never seen a bi-colored squirrel before. I was all like "how cute" until I realized it was all sprawled out because he found it dead. Squirrel colors seem to be geographically determined, so what do you have in your area? I'm hoping to get a grant to do a Cellar Study of the Geographical Determinations of Squirrel Pigmenation.
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11-22-2006, 12:06 PM | #2 |
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Around here - grey
At the shore - black I've seen the red ones, too, but I can't recall where.
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11-22-2006, 12:18 PM | #3 |
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The ones that scamper about our campus, look grey, but with red across their backs and the top of their tails. I don't know if that means they're red squirrels or grey squirrels. Supposedly our native red squirrels have been all but wiped out by the grey immigrants:P
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11-22-2006, 12:47 PM | #4 |
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Our native squirrel is the black Abert's squirrel. You mostly see them out in the wild. In the towns the red squirrel has become dominent. Red squirrels are NOT native and got here from the Eastern US, following the towns. They are a regular nuisance!
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11-22-2006, 01:26 PM | #5 |
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Reds are native to Britain, not sure where the greys came from, but over the last 40-50 years numbers of Reds have dropped significantly.
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11-22-2006, 01:46 PM | #6 |
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Mostly light brown, trending to red. I saw jet black squirrels in Colorado once. I even have a pic at home, I think.
From what I can tell on the road, though, they're all red on the inside.
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11-22-2006, 01:49 PM | #8 |
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Gray and Black at home. At work we have a couple of White Squirrels. I have to keep telling patients they are really seeing them.
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11-22-2006, 04:08 PM | #11 |
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The ones her are ...um...earth-tones? You know... tans, browns, the like.
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11-22-2006, 04:23 PM | #12 |
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gray and red here. We see the occasional flying type and I thought I saw a black up the road a piece but they are not sposed to be here.
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11-23-2006, 02:19 AM | #13 | |
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11-23-2006, 08:35 PM | #14 |
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What is the recommended load for something like this?
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11-22-2006, 04:38 PM | #15 |
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The black squirrels look really great.
Has anyone else ever seen the bi-colored ones? (Careful, I hear bi-colored squirrels are pushing for bi-colored marriage legislation.)<----couldn't help myself.
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