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Originally Posted by infinite monkey

Yeah, I was also thinking it's been a while since I've seen a white squirrel. My town and surrounding towns were lousy with white squirrels. Maybe they live more in town.

Everyone thinks they're albino but they're not. There wouldn't be hoardes of them, then.

And there are black squirrels near Lake Erie.

Maybe I've talked about this before, but a kid in our elementary school did a science fair project on the black squirrels of Arlington County. Apparently black is a dominant color and when a black squirrel mates with a gray one, the litter will be black. Washington National zoo had a bunch of black squirrels from Canada, but some escaped, and have been moving westward along the Route 66 corridor at a rate of about a quarter mile per year. You used to rarely see black squirrels in the neighborhood, but now they are very common.

we also had a handful of white squirrels in the park where I do my urban trail blazing, but I haven't seen one there in a couple years. I think their line died out.