The two-tone squirrel on Boston Common

By adamg on Sat, 04/17/2021 - 9:19pm

Hugmajesty wonders what the deal is with the half-gray, half red squirrel she saw on the Common today.

Did a grey squirrel and a red squirrel mate? Did this squirrel get its lower half bleached? What is happening?

Gene Mrozowski suggests:

New colors honoring the Boston Marathon this year.

Speaking of which, Kay Hanley, of Letters to Cleo, writes:

I LOVE these special Red Sox uniforms. They remind me of the old Service Master van that Cleo toured in for a couple of years in which we all nearly perished of carbon monoxide poisoning. I know this doesn’t sound like a compliment but it is.

Whatever the reason's for the little guy's unique coloring, he may have inherited it.

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Comments

I’m alright Ma

By Sock_Puppet on Sun, 04/18/2021 - 8:23am.

I'm only molting

Greys don’t always come in

By Lee on Sat, 04/17/2021 - 10:41pm.

Greys don’t always come in grey. There is a lot of variation in their coloring.

Recovering from the Covid.

By anon on Sun, 04/18/2021 - 7:26am.

Recovering from the Covid.

We've got black and grey squirrels

By J.R. Dobbs on Sun, 04/18/2021 - 7:32am.

in our yard that have been cross-breeding for years.

You see them in all sorts of shades especially as they grow from little babies and look almost fox red.

Portal?

By MrZip on Sun, 04/18/2021 - 3:32pm.

Photograph captures the moment a prehistoric squirrel passes through a minor ripple in the space/time continuum showing both a prehistoric squirrel-oid and its modern, evloved self.