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Squirrel family (Order Rodentia, Family Sciuridae) Groundhog, woodchuck or whistle pig (Marmota monax) — scarce when Europeans first came to North America, but they have thrived since then. [12] Eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) — the most frequently seen mammal in Connecticut [3] and the largest squirrel found in the state ...
The black squirrel has been used as an "unofficial" mascot of Kent State University and Portage County, Ohio, since the late 20th century. [32] [49] Kent State University hosts an annual "Black Squirrel Festival," a festival that commemorates the introduction of the species on the university campus in 1961. [50]
Eastern gray squirrel, Sciurus carolinensis Eastern gray squirrel. Distribution: central and southern Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. Subspecies: Sciurus carolinensis pennsylvanicus according to Hall (1981) and Thorrington and Hoffman (2005).
Melanistic squirrels appear to exhibit a higher cold tolerance than the common gray morph; when exposed to −10 °C, black squirrels showed an 18% reduction in heat loss, a 20% reduction in basal metabolic rate, and an 11% increase to non-shivering thermogenesis capacity when compared to the common gray morph. [18] The black coloration is ...
Sciurini (/ s ɪ ˈ j uː r ɪ n iː /) is a tribe that includes about forty species of squirrels, [2] mostly from the Americas. It includes five living genera—the American dwarf squirrels, Microsciurus; the Bornean Rheithrosciurus; the widespread American and Eurasian tree squirrels of the genus Sciurus, which includes some of the best known squirrel species; the Central American ...
Deppe's squirrel, Sciurus deppei; Japanese squirrel, Sciurus lis; Calabrian black squirrel, Sciurus meridionalis [2] Mexican fox squirrel, Sciurus nayaritensis; Fox squirrel, Sciurus niger; Peters's squirrel, Sciurus oculatus; Variegated squirrel, Sciurus variegatoides; Eurasian red squirrel, Sciurus vulgaris; Yucatan squirrel, Sciurus yucatanensis
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The currently accepted scientific name for Abert's squirrel is Sciurus aberti Woodhouse, 1853. [4] Woodhouse had initially described the species as Sciurus dorsalis in 1852, but this name turned out to be preoccupied by Sciurus dorsalis Gray, 1849 (now a subspecies of variegated squirrel S. variegatoides), and thus the present species was renamed.