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Tree Rats
Nov 21, 2017 21:56:24 #
With so many squirrels images being posted there is always just one more. Well two. Squirrels are regular visitors in my yard. This past year in the neighborhood there have been sightings of white squirrels. Now they are showing up with regular frequency in my yard. The common gray squirrel and the new guy are shown. Is the new visitor an albino? Look closely to determine what the new guy is. Then check out the link about squirrel variants. http://www.brevardnc.org/what-is-a-white-squirrel/ The images where hand held and shot through the windows.
Nov 21, 2017 22:10:43 #
Nov 21, 2017 23:32:40 #
They're called leucosystic. They are deficient in several types of pigment but retain their natural eye color, unlike albino. Most importantly, they're cool! 
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Nov 22, 2017 05:03:38 #
Nov 22, 2017 07:08:23 #
hdp26 wrote:
With so many squirrels images being posted there i... (show quote)
Long story short....I don't know.
But being a biology major, I am reminded of the story of the evolution of the color of the "Peppered Moth" (Industrial Melonism) in England at the time of the Industrial Revolution. Prior to the Industrial Revolution, the air in London was relatively clean, the trees were light (birch, etc), and the moth population was primarily white. (Birds, the moth's major predator, had more trouble spotting a white moth on a white tree...so the lighter population survived). When the air over England became filled with soot from the burning of coal and other fossil fuels...the color of the once white tree bark, darkened to a gray color. Now, the white moths stuck out...were eaten by the birds....and the population shifted to a gray color which blended in more readily with the new darker tree color.
The moral of the story is that variations occur among individuals in all species. Sometimes, through environmental pressure (Natural Selection), some individuals are better suited to survive than others. Perhaps this little guy is just an 'outlier' in the larger population?
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