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there are several albino squirrels that live on the mall in DC. In nature, they would be easy prey for hawks and other preditors, but on the mall they live on handouts from tourist, and breed, and pass on the gene.
burried somewhere, with all my other things packed for moving, i too have a photo of an albino squirrel.
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is there something about squirrels that they are more susceptible to albinoism?
what animals are most likely to be born albino?
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So, WW, hearkening back to your original question about the gray wolf not really being gray:
Is the red squirrel really red?
Is the blue whale really blue?
And blackbirds, evidently, don't have to be black.
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Mice and rabbits are supposed to be particularly suseptable, aren't they? And also a lot of reptiles, though in their case, their colours are often inverted or something like that.
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Yes, I noticed that the naming of animals appears to be a little arbitrary. But in the case of the Mexican gray world, the naming is even more arbitrary. There's not much gray there that I can see, and certainly the Mexican gray wolf is at least as red as that red squirrel. However, someone above pointed out that the Mexican gray wolf is more gray in winter. Perhaps it was named in the winter. I suppose I'm grayer in winter, too, at least emotionally.
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When you live in a Mexican gray world everything is more arbitrary.
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Yes, in Gray World, everything is simple, everything is in black & white.
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everything is in black & white
Or either shades of gray, one.
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Or a whiter shade of pale? Procol Harum...A Whiter Shade of Pale, Conquistodor. Great music!http://www.procolharum.com/
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Oh, just shut up, guys!  Haven't you ever typed something quickly and didn't edit? Bunch of steenkin' perfectionists!
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