Fox squirrels vary much more in color throughout their range than gray squirrels. Particular color patterns are characteristic of certain localities and regions.

Some gray squirrels may have a reddish, yellowish or cinnamon color and occasional populations may be solid black. Fox squirrels vary much more in color throughout their range than gray squirrels.

Despite their name, gray squirrels are not always gray. They also come in solid black and solid white.

Interspecies Breeding Is Responsible for Some Squirrels’ Black Coloring Color-changing mutation originated in fox squirrels but spread to eastern gray squirrels via mating ...

Despite their name, gray squirrels are not always gray. They also come in solid black and solid white. When I lived on Michigan State University's W.K. Kellogg Biological Station, formerly the ...

Fox squirrels vary from silver-gray with a predominantly black head to solid black to a light buff or brown color tinged with reddish-yellow.

The black squirrel is actually a gray squirrel with a faulty pigment gene carried over from the fox squirrel that turns their fur a darker shade. (Some fox squirrels, which are usually reddish ...

The fox squirrel’s coloring ranges from the more common brownish-black with a yellow belly to stunning solid reddish-brown and black.

Whatever the case, they wrote, black fur remains a rare thing for squirrels in North America, occurring at rates of less than 1% in the two species. But already, they noted in a statement, it's ...

Black squirrels are the result of "interbreeding" between their grey cousins and the North American fox squirrel, a study has concluded.

Interesting how people are reacting to the white fox squirrel.

Fox squirrels vary much more in color throughout their range than gray squirrels. Particular color patterns are characteristic of certain localities and regions.