White Squirrels?

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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?
 
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
 
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.
 
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 ?
 
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.
 
Origionally posted by mete -- The grey squirrel is either grey or black which is just a color phase.
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Actually, I am pretty sure that they are two different species; I don't think that one has more pigmant than the other.
 
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... :(
 
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
 
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
 
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.
 
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.
 
Black fox squirrels here

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.
 
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.
 
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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