Explore: Gray Squirrels

higher densities. Gray squirrels also carry the squirrelpox virus, to which red squirrels have no immunity. When an infected gray squirrel introduces squirrelpox

Gray squirrel or grey squirrel may refer to several species of squirrel indigenous to North America: The eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis),

epidemic in western gray squirrel populations and is a major source of mortality. Other species, such as eastern gray squirrels, fox squirrels, California ground

Black squirrels are a melanistic subgroup of squirrels with black coloration on their fur. The phenomenon occurs with several species of squirrels, although

from close relatives. The Mexican gray squirrels are native to multiple biomes of Mexico and Guatemala. These squirrels are found in a wide variety of places

climbing, the squirrels have sharp claws, developed extensors of digits and flexors of forearms, and abdominal musculature. Fox squirrels have excellent

grey squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis) originated in North America, where they are known as eastern gray squirrels (to differentiate from western gray squirrels)

they are variously related to others in the squirrel family, including ground squirrels, flying squirrels, marmots, and chipmunks. The defining characteristic

family includes tree squirrels, ground squirrels (including chipmunks and prairie dogs, among others), and flying squirrels. Squirrels are indigenous to

act and look like other gray squirrels, the Arizona gray squirrel is actually more closely related to the fox squirrel. Sciurus arizonensis is a member