The Great Squirrel Mystery - Urban Nature
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- There are two squirrel species in Chicago, and they are very particular about where they live. Gray squirrels tend to live in ritzy neighborhoods, while fox squirrels thrive in more affordable areas. A local biologist thinks he’s finally figured out why.
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This needs to be a cartoon! Urban squirrels and Suburban squirrels😅
call adult swim
Brown - inner city
Thank you for sharing. Squirrels are one of the most adaptable and successful urban dwellers. Damn cute too.
yeah sometimes they can be a nuisance, but they are darn cute, so how can you be upset with them if they act up.
Here in Co., we only have fox squirrels. I love the gray ones. Have made friends with two, but there are about 5. And, yes they have feisty personalities. 🙂
Interesting. Thanks for sharing this information about squirrels 🐿️ ❤
Excellent video!
NICE DOCUMENTARY
This is so cool and interesting. Though I actually am not able to tell the difference because their coat color seems similar to me. Will pay better attention to their under belly if I can see it.
This is the most fascinating thing I've ever seen (which probably says more about me). Is there some way you could extend the range of your website data entry system to cover the whole country?
Here are some interesting data points from Northern California:
In Santa Cruz, 90 minutes south of San Francisco by the beach, eastern greys are dominant with fox and black squirrels accounting for only about 5% of the population. Wilder areas do seem to have more fox squirrels.
However, at the Univ. of California at Berkeley (east of SF Bay), it's all foxes all the time. Not only is there a much higher density of squirrel population, the great majority are fox squirrels.
On the other side of the bay, at Stanford, it's at least 80% or 90% black squirrels - at least on campus. The farther you get into the neighborhoods, the more greys. I've read that black squirrels are just greys with different pigment, but the Stanford black squirrels are a different animal - smaller, more wirey, thinner tail fur.
After one of the many cataclysmic wild fires, we had sightings of fox and black squirrels in our Santa Cruz beach neighborhoods, but only briefly. The eastern greys are very territorial.
Of course, one thing to consider is whether humans feed them in a given location and how that skews the results. My girlfriend and I have separate houses about 6 miles apart and we've each been feeding squirrels regularly for about 5 years, with a clear trend from mostly grey to almost all grey. My girlfriend has many loud vicious dogs and a couple red tail hawks on her street but this hasn't increased the fox population sadly, conflicting with the premise about predators resulting in more fox squirrels. We both have coyotes. I did however, find a wild area with many feral cats that had a higher percentage of fox squirrels - about 15% give or take.
Finally I have an eastern grey who's had at least a dozen litters who can catch a walnut on the fly and will wait patiently for you to pick it up and toss it again if she misses. She could grab it herself but genuinely seems to relish the sport of catching the nut. I'm sure that by feeding them we're ruining any usefulness of the data, but we blame veterinarians who now charge more for pet rodent treatments than human open heart surgery. The only affordable way to have pets is to befriend wild animals. When they get mange and/or parasites, we often give them ivermectin - a tiny drop on the edge of a shelled walnut - it works like a charm, but now we can't get it because the covidiots have created a shortage of supply.
I used to live in San Diego. I think the only tree squirrel species present there and maybe the rest of SoCal are fox squirrels (supposedly in the case of LA they were brought there by way of the VA hospital by veterans from the South and Appalachian states who had kept them as pets). I now live in Seattle, which is dominated by Eastern gray squirrels, which I guess were also "imported" (apparently Western grays are a lot shyer). An interesting fact is that both gray and fox squirrels are native to Chicago and the Midwest, but Eastern grays are the only one of these "urban" squirrels present in the northeastern US.
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So I live in a neighborhood in Florida where all the cats and dogs live inside. All we have are Grey Squirrels. To be fair, I'm not sure if Fox Squirrels live in Florida.
They do, usually in the woods
GO team Grey Squirrel!!!!
i have fox squirrels in my area and they would take over my bird feeders and it took effort to scare them away and i always would wonder why they would not run as soon as i would yell or bark at them now i may know why.
It’s gotta b more than that bcuz we have only grey squirrels and have the surroundings n predators. Pretty cool theory tho. I’ve been interested n finding a documentary on squirrels n was surprised to find none rlly. We study so many animals exotic n all but completely miss the one animal that’s everywhere n has survived the game for centuries. B nice 2c where this leads n get more n depth with more species bcuz they r absolutely adorable athletic acrobatic smart n funny. Hope 2c more❤ I mean we dnt even have a squirrel emoji😂but we do have the chipmunk
So interesting
So, if i was to say a red squirrel will run from a grey squirrel, but not from a hawk, would that be right? Or am i kinda twisting a couple things together?
Edit: ps. I like the little animations..
Inner city squirrels are brown.
fun
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It is disconcerting to see you waving stuffed squirrels in your hands as you talk about them. It is OK to just keep your hands at your sides.
🤦🏻♀️ You can’t please them all. How rude you are.