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The Eastern Gray squirrel

Sciurus carolinensis

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HemaShah
HemaShah 12 years ago
Eastern Gray Squirrel
Sciurus carolinensis Eastern gray squirrel


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9 Comments

p.young713
p.young713 12 years ago

Thank You, Emma, I agree with you! You are a very smart lady!! Are you a biologist or biology major, by any chance?

Hema  Shah
Hema Shah 12 years ago

Well if a large population has the same problem ,chances are this squirrel is bot
fly -infested.
this is another very interesting spotting.

p.young713
p.young713 12 years ago

Thanks~

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar 12 years ago

Super....

p.young713
p.young713 12 years ago

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.

Mostly Microbe
Mostly Microbe 12 years ago

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.

p.young713
p.young713 12 years ago

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.

KarenL
KarenL 12 years ago

Perfect musical accompaniment in the video!

Hema  Shah
Hema Shah 12 years ago

@pyoung! that is such a charming video!
The pic of the squirrel is excellent!
Wow you are advancing with leaps and bounds!! Kangaroo style!

p.young713
Spotted by
p.young713

Tampa, Florida, USA

Spotted on Sep 11, 2011
Submitted on Sep 12, 2011

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