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[wispfox]

Slept well last night, happily enough. Yay, sleep!

Saw a _black_ squirrel on the way into work. I didn't know squirrels came in black! Was a bit startling.

Had frost that hadn't yet melted on my car this morning; need to make sure my windshield washer fluid is good for cold temperatures. Do _not_ want it freezing.

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[mactavish.livejournal.com]

joedecker's yard has tons of black squirrels. My guess is that they're selected against out in the woods, because they don't match the trees, but they can find more places to hide from predators -- and there aren't as many predators -- in towns, so they survive to pass on their genes.

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Ah... yeah, I can see that. I still can't quite figure out how they manage to hide during winter, though (at least here), since they are the precisely _wrong_ color to hide on snow!

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

But so are grey foxes the wrong color to hide on snow. They aren't out and about as much, and there are fewer predators (airborne, anyway) around houses than in the woods.

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Mmm. True. Still. Fascinating. :)

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

(Whoops. Any by foxes, there, I meant squirrels.)

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Suspected. :)