Originally Posted by
Elizabeth W.
I've noticed a difference in the squirrels in SE US and in Canada around the Vancouver area. In my corner of the country, most squirrels running around are small and brown. In Vancouver, they were rather large (some were close to the size of a small cat) and dark black. They could have eaten their southern neighbors for lunch.
The black squirrel is actually the Eastern Gray Squirrel. They were introudced some 40 years ago with mixed pairs of gray and black.