{"id":25575,"date":"2010-06-09T12:21:58","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T12:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/06\/09\/a-question-about-your-squirrel\/"},"modified":"2010-06-09T12:21:58","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T12:21:58","slug":"a-question-about-your-squirrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/09\/a-question-about-your-squirrel\/","title":{"rendered":"A question about your squirrels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend <a href=\"http:\/\/ashashoffner.blogspot.com\/\">Asha<\/a> just gave a copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1572232986?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=wwwgregladenc-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=1572232986\">Squirrel Wars: Backyard Wildlife Battles &amp; How to Win Them<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=wwwgregladenc-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=1572232986\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> to her mom for Father&#8217;s day.  Which reminds me of <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/04\/how_to_live_trap_a_squirrel.php\">this method<\/a> of controlling squirrels in your back yard.<\/p>\n<p>Which, in turn, reminds me that I&#8217;ve been meaning to ask around about color morphs.  Where I grew up, gray squirrels were gray.  I lived in Boston for many years, and gray squirrels there were &#8230; also gray. Well, the ones in Harvard Yard were more a shade of grey.  Anyway, here in the Twin Cities area, they are pure white, almost jet black, or gray.  Some of the gray ones are reddish gray.<\/p>\n<p>So, here is my question:  Am I living in a region where there is unusual diversity in the color morphs of <em>Sciurus carolinensis<\/em>?  What is the diversity of gray squirrel pelt color in your region?<\/p>\n<p>And why?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Asha just gave a copy of Squirrel Wars: Backyard Wildlife Battles &amp; How to Win Them to her mom for Father&#8217;s day. Which reminds me of this method of controlling squirrels in your back yard. Which, in turn, reminds me that I&#8217;ve been meaning to ask around about color morphs. Where I grew &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/09\/a-question-about-your-squirrel\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A question about your squirrels<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1417,246],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6Ev","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25575"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}