Ok, I think I remember reading about black squirrels, besides the normal grays and reds, but not white. Maybe I have that backwards though.....
I was walking across campus today, out on the oval which is kind of a park in the middle an I passed a group of 3 huge oak trees that had (I'm serious, people feed them) 16 gray squirrels and a white squirrel picking around in the grass all within about a 50 ft circle.
I had to stop and do a double take twice on the white one. It looked like a lab rat but had the squirrel tale :confused: Anyone seen one of these critters before?
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4Truck
June 5, 2003, 08:16 PM
I see them occasionally here in Va, they are just Albino squirrels, something in the genes make them come out all white or partially white. I always wanted to shoot one and have it mounted
There are quite a few albino deer here in Va as well.
Nothing to be alarmed about, it isn't the 3 eyed fish from the Simpsons
Kevlarman
June 5, 2003, 08:50 PM
You mean like this?
http://www.geocities.com/albino12345/
:D
mete
June 5, 2003, 09:19 PM
Any animal including people can be albino.I've seen photos of many types of albino animals. Albino is the lack of pigment, the opposite is melanistic . The grey squirrel is either grey or black which is just a color phase. We also have in NY the red squirrel which is a different , smaller type.
redneck
June 5, 2003, 10:02 PM
Yeah Kevlarman
Thats exactly what it looked like :)
I kinda figured it was just a genetic oddity, especially since it was hanging out with 16 gray squirrels, but you never know.
Anybody else seen one before ?
El Tejon
June 6, 2003, 12:25 AM
Central Illinois is known for them. Have never seen one this far east.
What do you call a white squirrel in Indiana? Dinner.:D
makdaddy03
June 6, 2003, 02:03 AM
I have seen them on TV. I think theres a park in NY thats full of them.:)
ps
Ever seen a "White" Deer? There has been a number of sightings in my location in the last couple of years. But I havent seen one yet.
USMCsilver
June 6, 2003, 10:49 AM
Origionally posted by mete -- The grey squirrel is either grey or black which is just a color phase.
Actually, I am pretty sure that they are two different species; I don't think that one has more pigmant than the other.
Edward429451
June 6, 2003, 11:18 AM
I've seen a couple in Ohio, but never here in Colorado. My cousin got bit by one that was tangled up in a fence and she was trying to help it get free. It got away and she had to do the series of rabies shots... :(
Guyon
June 6, 2003, 06:49 PM
Apparently, they're pretty common in Kentucky, which has entire communities of them. I looked them up on Google because we have one that lives in our neighborhood. I've got pictures of him on the laptop. I'll post one here later.
BTW, "Would you like to see a white squirrel?" is not a line you want to utter to a stranger. I came within a hair's breadth of saying it before I caught myself. :D
Ol' Badger
June 10, 2003, 09:17 AM
Can you call an Albino squirrel Bunny Eyes? That was a nickname for a friend of my in Highschool who was Albino. Funny thing is that he had many girl friends. They wanted to see what it was like in the sack with a freak (His Words, Not Mine). So it all even out in the end!:D
meathammer
June 10, 2003, 03:25 PM
There was a white squirrel in my grandfather's woods where I bowhunted as a teenager. That's the only time I saw one in the wild. Pretty neat.
gun-fucious
June 10, 2003, 05:40 PM
albinoism in squirels is sellected against by Darwin when a crusing hawk spots a tasty white snack
Newt
June 11, 2003, 10:29 AM
It's just an albino squirrel. They're not that common around Arkansas (I've never seen one anyways). I do know a guy that has one mounted though. Cool looking mount.
Edward429451
June 11, 2003, 10:34 AM
From all the posts from those who have seen them it looks like they're only back east. Anybody notice that? I wonder if that has some significance?
Bob R
June 14, 2003, 10:01 AM
Some towns are right proud of their white rodents, even the ones with black eyes.
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/set/squirrels.html
bob
Atticus
June 20, 2003, 08:51 PM
I've got a few in my back yard. I'll try to take a pic some day.
Jaegermeister
June 22, 2003, 01:20 AM
We have black fox squirrels here in Western Iowa. A town about a half hour east of Sioux City called Correctionville, Iowa, has a large population.
My father-in-law shot one with a longbow and had it mounted.
Never seen a white one, but lots of large reddish fox. Smaller gray ones at parents' home in Minnesota.
4v50 Gary
June 24, 2003, 01:18 AM
Wouldn't have believed it until I saw it with my own eyes. Sighted one at Western KY University, Bowling Green, KY early June. My classmates (we're there for the NMLRA gun building class and not academic classes) also spotted them and some told me there's a whole family running around the area.
Zorro
July 2, 2003, 02:50 AM
Vandenberg AFB has them now too.
Except the ones here are Ground Squirrels!
Not true albinos, just a pure white fur color.
They hang out on Sixth street, behind the supply building.
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