Posted on 11/29/2018 6:29:51 AM PST by Beowulf9
When someone says squirrels you'd think of those small size rodent-like creatures with their bushy tails. Jumping and running across from trees to trees, squirrels make for cute creatures hunting for their nuts more often. But residents in North Carolina can spot some oddity in and around Robeson County. Going by the recent pictures posted by state wildlife officials there are 2-foot tall squirrels in the area. Baby Squirrel Taken into Police Custody After Chasing a Man in Germany.
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I grew up in Wisconsin.
I hunted, harvested, and ate quite a few fox squirrels while growing up.
They are found mostly in oak woodlots and mixed oak and white pine forests in Wisconsin.
Good one! I have seen that pic before!
Large being a visual estimate I’m not sure why you’re delving into weight or why this is such a big deal for you, these squirrels routinely reach the size described so it’s not as if there was really any motivation for that image to be Photoshopped. The cam if I’m not mistaken belongs to the NC Wildlife Commission. If it was Photoshopped you can just about guarantee there would be some sort of clear scale reference in the image itself. I just see no reason to doubt the reported size of this animal. Maybe you can call the NC Wildlife Commission, get the location of this pic and go check it out personally or something.
We have fox squirrels. They are not endangered in Kansas. Mr. Mercat was cutting down an old mostly dead willow when a red squirrel jumped out of her nest and ran away. She was at least 18 inches tall and two feet long or more. Clearly pregnant.
In Florida they are just about exclusively found in pine forests.
You’re one up on me then. I’ve never even seen a fox squirrel. We’re ate up with the little gray buggers, though.
Of course, we’re ate up with moccasins too, so I guess squirrels that don’t spend most of their time in the trees don’t last long ;-)
Is there any other kind in Florida? ;-)
Live Oak.
Even a stew pot for scale.
Fox squirrels are very common and nowhere that large so what’s up with these? 26 inches tall but only 3 lbs? That’s a very skinny squirrel. A cat’s body is about 20 inches (nose to butt, not counting the tail) but they weigh around 10 lbs. Someone isn’t getting the story straight.
My parents had a beautiful place SW of DeFuniak Springs. Mostly hardwood and very hilly. Also had a couple of small waterfalls.
Also caverns which the entrance was too small for a person but the dog went into it a lot.
Everything is endangered, even humans.
Dat looks to me to be da main ingredient to a nice pan’o jambalaya.
Practically speaking, a yardstick could be placed there and imaged later on after the squirrel was gone. Then comparing the imaged yardstick with the imaged squirrel would give the true proportions, eh?
An old article, but I would see these ‘white’ squirrels while commuting on the bus in Maryland.
https://www.sott.net/article/196414-White-Squirrels-are-Turning-Heads-in-Maryland-Elsewhere
Also had these black squirrels in our Kensington, MD neighborhood.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/squirrel-week-where-did-dcs-black-squirrels-come-from-blame-canada/2011/03/30/AFgnPaHC_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.9dc3524f4a62
Colonel Hogan and the underground.
Squirrel makes good vomacka (a Czech sour cream soup featuring game meat, and pronounced “Vo-motchka”). I made it with pheasant, and it was very, very tasty!
Why is this unusual? I have 2 fox squirrels (twins) in my back yard that measure every inch of 24-inches w/o tail. We’ve got ‘em that size all over central Michigan.
They need to go back to the tree and hang a jar of peanut butter, two slices of bread and a plastic knife 24 inches off of the ground. Let the wildlife cam get the picture of the squirrel making a Peanut Butter sandwich.
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