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…just a quick résumé over here guys while on my way to the Foresters cabin this morning; the Fox Squirrel is the largest native Squirrel species in the mountainous part of the Northern Hemisphere (Canada). And they are well known for being a group who proactively is prepared for all kind of emergencies situations, such as natural disasters. So they own a personal large instinct of survival.

And frequently Fox Squirrels will interbreed with Grey Squirrels to expand Squirrels population which will end up with little Black Squirrels offspring (they are black due to a unique gene from the Gray one). And that's how hybrid Squirrels are born. So far so good.

Now this is not a high quality video. It was early in the morning and they were approximately at 40' high on a dead spruce. But anyway.

So I caught on video this Black Squirrel copulating with a Fox Squirrel while the Black Squirrel is already the result from the Grey with the Fox one. And now I'm not too sure what kind of result we can expect here from this interbreeding session in a near future…

And good morning.

Fox squirrel in spring, Jey Schroeder, 2022