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Article #1784Re: where black squirrels live in NYC
From: Alex Rodriguez
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 00:00
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 00:00
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In article <lokijuhyg-1803992303070001@zz.dialup.access.net>,
lokijuhyg@nhyxe.jyhdcsx.mil.edu.no says...
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>In New York City, most wild squirrels are medium gray but a minority are
>black. Most NYC places with squirrels have the gray ones but seem to have
>few or no black ones. On the lower East side of Manhattan, there are two,
>adjacent, privately owned, housing projects: Peter Cooper Village and
>Stuyvesant Town. There is a high percentage of black squirrels on the
>grounds of those two, adjacent projects.
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>Why is it that there is only one squirrel neighborhood in NYC with a high
>percentage of black squirrels? Coincidence?
When I was going to school at BX. Comm. Coll. I noticed that the mix on
campus was about 50/50 . I think you just have to get around the city
more.
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