ian 0 Posted January 21, 2009 Report Share Posted January 21, 2009 just a quick one dose any one know if you can shoot black squirrels Quote Link to post Share on other sites
redda09 1 Posted January 21, 2009 Report Share Posted January 21, 2009 (edited) never seen a black squirrel before so i google'd it Edited January 21, 2009 by redda09 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ian 0 Posted January 21, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 21, 2009 never seen a black squirrel before so i google'd it so thats a yes then? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
desi22007 3 Posted January 21, 2009 Report Share Posted January 21, 2009 good spuirrel dead spuirrel Quote Link to post Share on other sites
claybusers al 9 Posted January 21, 2009 Report Share Posted January 21, 2009 never seen a black squirrel before so i google'd it fashion these days colour co-ordinated Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Back Stabbath 1 Posted January 21, 2009 Report Share Posted January 21, 2009 That looks like a black mutation of a red squirrel. Look into that, you don't want to be killing any reds. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
zig zag wanderer 0 Posted January 21, 2009 Report Share Posted January 21, 2009 Black is the new grey. It looks pretty non-indigenous to me which is usually a good enough reason wipe it out. Sooner the better if we can learn from the mistakes we made with grey. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Back Stabbath 1 Posted January 21, 2009 Report Share Posted January 21, 2009 Just looked it up, it seems they are actually greys. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
comanche 3,048 Posted January 21, 2009 Report Share Posted January 21, 2009 They are just melanistic Grey squirrels so tis fine to shoot em. People seem to think they may be a bit more dominent and aggressive than normal coloured greys but this is probably because being a different colour they tend to stand out more or it could be that only the toughest survive because the colour makes em more noticable to predators . Some Us and Canadian cities have had black squill populations for years Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Back Stabbath 1 Posted January 21, 2009 Report Share Posted January 21, 2009 Apparantly they are threatening both greys and reds.... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-56...e-medicine.html They are a sub species of greys or something.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
comanche 3,048 Posted January 21, 2009 Report Share Posted January 21, 2009 (edited) Oh it's in the papers ..must be true! Just black Eastern Grey squirrels ,not possessed by demons or another alien super -species. Not a sub-species just a colour variation that makes it stand out and in it's natural habitat would mean the kiss of death from alert predators.In cities ,in this country with no enemies like hawks and martens to pick it off it survives to pass its genes on . Despite what it may say in The Sun you don't need to get your tin of Ely Wasps blessed with holy-water or specially cast in silver . Edited January 21, 2009 by comanche Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Back Stabbath 1 Posted January 21, 2009 Report Share Posted January 21, 2009 (edited) ?? Yeah, well anyway, I don't see how they can be any different to greys if they are only a sub species with a colour mutation. That article dosn't actually state what they are it just says they are threatening greys and reds, as if they are another species. But other places it says they are just a 'subgroup', which, I'm not sure the exact meaning, but it sounds even less far away from they grey than 'subspecies' does. So yeah, I guess they're just black greys. ADD: yeah, that makes sense comanche Edited January 21, 2009 by Back Stabbath Quote Link to post Share on other sites
comanche 3,048 Posted January 21, 2009 Report Share Posted January 21, 2009 Far as I'm aware a sub-species is a branch of a species that has developed in a separate environment , under different conditions and has therefore developed very noticable adaptations in order to aid survival in those different conditions. At the same time it remains obviously of the same species as the parent species . Obvious example would be the jungle loving Bengal tiger and the bigger ,hairier Siberian tiger that has developed to survive in the snowy wastes . Other races or sub-species of smaller tigers became adapted to life on the off-shore Indian islands . The black grey squirrels are just colour variations (sports) not a geographically separatly developed sub-species or "race" . Round here we do have years when there seem to be sightings of white(grey) squirrels but then several years may pass before the next batch arrive .I saw two a few years ago in totally seperate areas so they were unlikely to have been from the same litter. They don't seem to last very long ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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