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04-25-2024, 06:49 PM
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Black ground squirrel
Have seen a few of these in the last week
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04-25-2024, 09:34 PM
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That’s not black, that is African -American! You should know better!
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04-26-2024, 08:27 AM
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Originally Posted by KGB
That’s not black, that is African -American! You should know better!
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I walked into a Wendy's the other day, a place staffed mostly by East Indians, and requested the new white chocolate strawberry Smoothie. Are you still allowed to say that ? I had to ask.
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04-26-2024, 08:35 AM
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What the heck!!!
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04-26-2024, 09:50 AM
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Sundre some years back. I didn't realize the buggars had gotten that far.
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04-26-2024, 11:59 AM
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Originally Posted by Grizzly Adams1
Sundre some years back. I didn't realize the buggars had gotten that far.
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Its not a black tree squirrel. It’s a ground squirrel. Everyone calls them gophers.
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04-26-2024, 01:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Grizzly Adams1
I walked into a Wendy's the other day, a place staffed mostly by East Indians, and requested the new white chocolate strawberry Smoothie. Are you still allowed to say that ? I had to ask.
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You ordered white chocolate strawberry smooothy? What kind of a guy orders that? Do you also drink Bud Light? I’m just curious….
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04-26-2024, 02:42 PM
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Originally Posted by KGB
You ordered white chocolate strawberry smooothy? What kind of a guy orders that? Do you also drink Bud Light? I’m just curious….
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I'll try anything, ONCE.
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04-26-2024, 04:01 PM
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A number of years ago there was a colony of black Richardson’s Ground Squirrels a little South or South-East of Edmonton. I no longer remember exactly where it was but it made the news. Where did you get this one?
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04-26-2024, 04:05 PM
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I think red deer is about as far north as they can handle and then out RS takes over
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04-26-2024, 11:40 AM
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They are actually Grey Squirrels.
Eastern grey squirrels Sciurus carolinensis commonly occur in two colour phases, grey and black, which leads people to think—mistakenly—that there are two different species. Black is often the dominant colour in Ontario and Quebec, toward the northern limits of the species’ range. Farther south the black phase is less common and is not found at all in the southern United States. This may indicate that the gene responsible for black coloration has some cold-weather adaptation associated with it. Albino eastern grey squirrels also occur and in the United States a few small, completely white populations are found
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04-26-2024, 12:15 PM
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Originally Posted by markd
They are actually Grey Squirrels.
Eastern grey squirrels Sciurus carolinensis commonly occur in two colour phases, grey and black, which leads people to think—mistakenly—that there are two different species. Black is often the dominant colour in Ontario and Quebec, toward the northern limits of the species’ range. Farther south the black phase is less common and is not found at all in the southern United States. This may indicate that the gene responsible for black coloration has some cold-weather adaptation associated with it. Albino eastern grey squirrels also occur and in the United States a few small, completely white populations are found
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Its not a tree squirrel. It’s a ground squirrel that everyone calls gophers
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04-26-2024, 12:21 PM
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Isn't that a TAR SANDS GOPHER?
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04-26-2024, 01:53 PM
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In Toronto where my sister lives that is all they have, those well tanned squirrels and they are huge compared to ours and they look like rats too!
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04-29-2024, 10:56 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jumbly
Its not a tree squirrel. It’s a ground squirrel that everyone calls gophers
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Gophers/ Richardson ground squirrels (commonly known as mountain gophers) the prairie gopher as well as 13 and 7 strip gophers and pocket gophers they all live in burrows underground. The Squirrel in the photograph is a squirrel that lives in trees. So you are right the Richardson is called a squirrel but they do not live in trees, Hench the confusion.
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