squiral

[blackpack 70]

hi all, i was talking to a old keeper today and he talked about black squirals and that they are pushing out the dreaded grey ones, is this correct, that there is black ones also has anyone seen them, thanks.

[Attack Fell Terrier 864]

F*cking blacks should never of let them in in the first place!

[romany52 313]

hi all, i was talking to a old keeper today and he talked about black squirals and that they are pushing out the dreaded grey ones, is this correct, that there is black ones also has anyone seen them, thanks.

 

The blacks are just melanistic greys.

[masmiffy 82]

Got black ones in my back garden!

Common in Hertfordshire I believe so must have emigrated to Cambs

[comanche 2,799]

They are just a black (melanistic) colour variety of the grey . The variation seems commoner in Eastern England for some reason . My part of Sussex throws up more white squirrels than anywhere else apparently .In fact the emblem of my local golf course is a white squirrel. I suppose for obvious reasons they tend to not get so much chance to pass their genes on so don't form the large local populations that the black does.

The black variety is claimed to be more aggressive but there is no obvious reason why it should be unless some disadvantage of being black has led to an inbred survival of the fitest mentality or if their coluring gives them an advantage in urban situations where they are said to be commonest .It would be interesting to see if any scientific study has been done along these lines .

[McKay 37]

All greys should be eradicated from the British isles no matter what colour variation they are

 

ATB

 

McKay

[Fabapocalypse 35]

I think they call them melanistic squirrels... there used to be a colony in a park in Essex a few years back.

 

[FightTheBan 1,147]

Christ almighty. Those poor reds.

First the greys are giving thm squirrel pox and forcing them out of their territory - now the blacks are here to rob them at gunpoint and try to sell them crystal meth

 

FTB

[blackpack 70]

I think they call them melanistic squirrels... there used to be a colony in a park in Essex a few years back.

 

thanks for the reply, also the picture, never seen or heard about them before

[blackpack 70]

They are just a black (melanistic) colour variety of the grey . The variation seems commoner in Eastern England for some reason . My part of Sussex throws up more white squirrels than anywhere else apparently .In fact the emblem of my local golf course is a white squirrel. I suppose for obvious reasons they tend to not get so much chance to pass their genes on so don't form the large local populations that the black does.

The black variety is claimed to be more aggressive but there is no obvious reason why it should be unless some disadvantage of being black has led to an inbred survival of the fitest mentality or if their coluring gives them an advantage in urban situations where they are said to be commonest .It would be interesting to see if any scientific study has been done along these lines .

thanks for the above, heard they were slightly bigger, more aggresive than the grey??

[southcott 9]

Thay would probably taste ok Tried a grey one the other day, Denise