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Not. It looks like a Mexican Calico Wolf to me. Wish I could send a link, but I can't. How could anyone call something a gray wolf that is definitely tri-colored? It's near-extinct according to the e-mail I received from a wildlife group. Fewer than four hundred remain on Earth.
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Thanks for posting all those photos, guys. You see? It should be called the Mexican Calico Wolf. The calico wolf. Works for me, although I suppose you could argue that it's actually four-colored. What would that be? Quadra-colored? Tetra-colored?
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it seemes to be more gray in the winter time, so perhaps it was named then. what a beautiful animal.
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is that lunch for the Mexican Gray Wolf?
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you can't fool an OPP (olde prairie person); that's a yellow-headed blackbird!
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Or a black bodied yellow bird?
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I remember seeing a story in Readers' Digest about fifty years ago, that said the red squirrels
were going to drive gray squirrels to extinction. How? By gnashing their knockers off, biting
their gonads off, gelding them, deprivi;ng them of any posterity.. But it never happened. I wonder
why. I never saw a gray squirrel wearing a tin jock.
Edit: From the Internet. I can hardly believe it, the Readers' Digest printed a lie!
"The breeding season for red squirrels begins in late winter, with 3-6 young born in April, May or June after a 40-day
gestation period. Reds have strong territorial instincts, often defending food sources and den
trees against intrusion. The story that red squirrels castrate gray squirrels is untrue, although reds will aggressively drive off trespassing grays. "
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you can't fool an OPP (olde prairie person); that's a yellow-headed blackbird!
-ron obviousDat's right...but then it can't be a blackbird...it would have to be a yellow-and-black bird, wouldn't it?  -W'ON not-so-obvious
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Here in the UK, grey squirrels are blamed for driving off the red squirrels, which is why we hardly see any red squirrels anymore. Though apparently, due to a difference in their feeding habits, the two types of squirrel shouldn't really affect one another as the red squirrels spend most of their time in the trees, with quite a specialised diet and the grey squirrels will eat anything.
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I'd call it a raspberry finch.
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Oh, bonzai, what remarkable photos! The albino squirrel looked as though it had fallen into a flour bag--and the white blackbird? Whudda thunk?
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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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If it hadn't been so funny…
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Help me play along on the violin for WW here, Faldage.  Blackbird(John Lennon, Paul McCartney) Lead Vocal: Paul McCartney Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise
Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these sunken eyes and learn to see
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to be free
Blackbird fly
Blackbird fly
Into the light of the dark black night
Blackbird fly
Blackbird fly
Into the light of the dark black night
Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise
You were only waiting for this moment to arise
You were only waiting for this moment to arise© 1968 by Lennon/McCartney or make that McCartney/Lennon as Sir Paul would now prefer 
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I didn't see a single mention of any dadburned Mexican Gray World in the lyric... sheesh.
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I didn't see a single mention of any dadburned Mexican Gray World in the lyric... sheeshLook again: Take these broken wings and learn to fly,
Into the dark of the Gray World night. 
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Your eyes see what my eyes cannot see. I am blind. I see no gray world there except in what you wrote just above. All I see is black night--and I'm hearing quite a bit of rain, to boot.
What does "to boot" mean and where did it come from? Bootless means 'useless'--so perhaps 'to boot' means 'to put to use'?
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so perhaps 'to boot' means 'to put to use'?
To boot.
Meaning:
In addition to.
Origin:
From the Old English word bot - compensation.
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And remember, Dub-Dub, a Lone Wolf is never gray, just lonely...
Four and twenty blackbirds,
Baked in a pie...
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