r/mildlyinteresting • u/lveg • 11h ago

My town has black squirrels

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u/Kaymazo 10h ago

Over here in Europe it's a pretty common variant of the Eurasian Squirrel, which is usually red.

So I assume it's a similar case for American squirrels where you just have a couple squirrels of the same species with varying coats.

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u/Spetsnaz_420 10h ago

In Canada, we mostly have black squirrels... I can't think of a squirrel without it being black in my mind.

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u/Moonviola 8h ago

They mostly in southeastern Ontario, not all of Canada.

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u/Spetsnaz_420 1h ago

Southeastern Ontario isn't all of Canada?

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u/Moonviola 32m ago

Maybe to Torontonians. lol

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u/purpuranaso 9h ago

I've lived my whole life in Europe and I've never ever seen a black squirrel, so I guess it's only in specific areas?

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u/math1985 3h ago

Really? Never seen it in the Netherlands.

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u/Kaymazo 27m ago

At least over here in Munich we have a bunch of them alongside "regular" red ones.