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  2. Black squirrel - Wikipedia

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    Black squirrels are a melanistic subgroup of squirrels with black coloration on their fur. The phenomenon occurs with several species of squirrels, although it is most frequent with the eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) and the fox squirrel (Sciurus niger). Black morphs of the eastern gray and fox squirrels are the result of a ...

  3. Squirrel - Wikipedia

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    This gradual process of successful interaction is called synurbanization, wherein squirrels lose their inherent fear of humans in an urban environment. [34] When squirrels were almost completely eradicated during the Industrial Revolution in New York, they were later re-introduced to "entertain and remind" humans of nature. The squirrel blended ...

  4. Fear of the dark - Wikipedia

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    Artistic depiction of a child afraid of the dark and frightened by their shadow. (Linocut by the artist Ethel Spowers (1927).) Fear of the dark is a common fear or phobia among toddlers, children and, to a varying degree, adults. A fear of the dark does not always concern darkness itself; it can also be a fear of possible or imagined dangers ...

  5. Learn Why Squirrel’s Practice This Peculiar Behavior - AOL

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    There are two types of caching strategies squirrels use: larder hoarding and scatter hoarding. When larder hoarding, the squirrel chooses one or two strategically located spots to store their ...

  6. Richardson's ground squirrel - Wikipedia

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    Richardson's ground squirrel (Urocitellus richardsonii), also known as the dakrat or flickertail, is a North American ground squirrel in the genus Urocitellus.Like a number of other ground squirrels, they are sometimes called prairie dogs or gophers, though the latter name belongs more strictly to the pocket gophers of family Geomyidae, and the former to members of the genus Cynomys.

  7. Fox squirrel - Wikipedia

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    The fox squirrel (Sciurus niger), also known as the eastern fox squirrel or Bryant's fox squirrel, [3] is the largest species of tree squirrel native to North America.It is sometimes mistaken for the American red squirrel or eastern gray squirrel in areas where the species co-exist, though they differ in size and coloration.

  8. These SC squirrels are the most variably colorful in the ...

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    The southern fox squirrel (Sciurus niger niger) is a close relative of the gray squirrel, which is one of the most common squirrel species in the country, and is considered to be the most variably ...

  9. Abert's squirrel - Wikipedia

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    Abert's squirrels are 46–58 cm long with a tail of 19–25 cm. They are easily recognized by their long ear tufts, which extend up from each ear 2–3 cm. This gives this species a striking similarity to the Eurasian red squirrel, aside from its differing dark coloration. Abert's squirrels vary in color across their range.