A first for my photostream - Black Squirrel, Fen Drayton Cambridgeshire

I was surprised to learn that the red squirrel isn’t the squirrel with the smallest population in Britain. That dubious honour goes to the black squirrel - first spotted in the wild on these shores in 1912, which has a population of c25,000

Black squirrels are the result of interbreeding between their grey cousins and the North American fox squirrel, a study by Anglia Ruskin University has concluded. Research published in BMC Evolutionary Biology found the black fur emerged from a faulty pigment gene

Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire are the three counties with the largest populations of black squirrels

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