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Sciurus carolinensis
Thank You, Emma, I agree with you! You are a very smart lady!! Are you a biologist or biology major, by any chance?
Well if a large population has the same problem ,chances are this squirrel is bot
fly -infested.
this is another very interesting spotting.
Yes I was aware of this, I have been studying this for 10 years. Same location. It appears they are not suffering, but my major is Information Science, not Biology, so I looked it up and its either fibromatosis or the squirrels are bot fly-infested. http://entomology.ifas.ufl.edu/slansky/b....
And this is the only Florida location I have observed this in squirrels.
Looks like this squirrel has a mass (tumor) near left arm-pit visible at 13 seconds in video. Also, based on her mammary glands, looks like this one may have recently nursed some young. Thanks for posting.
Oh thank you ladies!! We were laughing and carrying on having fun, making a lot of noise ,so I placed music in it and some of the videos there are loud sirens from police cars, so I just decided to replace it with Utube music.
@pyoung! that is such a charming video!
The pic of the squirrel is excellent!
Wow you are advancing with leaps and bounds!! Kangaroo style!