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Re: where black squirrels live in NYC

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From: Alex Rodriguez
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.
>
>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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From: adr5@columbia.edu (Alex Rodriguez)
Subject: Re: where black squirrels live in NYC
Date: 1999/03/19
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