Never really saw baby squirrels before, so I got that out of reading this.

When I was a kid in SE MI, Fox squirrels were the standard issue squirrel around here… I didn’t see black squirrels often in my area, only in more wealthy neighborhoods. I called them “rich people squirrels.”

Past 15 or so years the black squirrel population exploded and now the Fox squirrels are a rare sight.

We have a black subpopulation of rock squirrel (Otospermophilus variegatus) in Central Texas. They look like this guy:

In my neighborhood, it’s 50/50 black/grey. I’m in the northern suburbs of NYC.

By the Bronx zoo and the Cloisters museum (places I go to) there are significantly more black squirrels than grey. So I can confirm what the article claims about urban distribution.

More importantly, are these tasty?