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BowEd:
When I was a kid in NW Iowa I shot many squirrels.Occasionally I'd see black ones.This was in  the 1960's.
We farmed and my father said he had never seen these before.He was born in 1915.
After he retired he had one mounted and I inherited it after his death.
They are still there to this day.Some towns there have a lot of them.
Just a color phase of a fox but still a little unique anyway.I see this go on with many species.White skunks and deer to name a couple.People too.

Pat B:
When I lived in SC our fox squirrels were all black and white. Ones I saw in Ohio and Indiana were red. We have solid white squirrels here but they were imported from elsewhere many years ago. The white ones have inner bred with the grays but they stay mostly white with a gray stripe down their backs. 

BowEd:
The black ones here were not imported.Just a natural mutation of a color gene change.

chamookman:
Here in Michigan, We have Black & White ones - but if You get too close, they give off a Horrific odor ! Bob

BowEd:
That's different.Kinda weird too.I've eaten a ton of squirrel myself.
Where I live now 2 kinds are here.The smaller grays and the larger red fox.The smaller greys are a challenge.
We've got chipmunks here too.

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