We have about a gazillion squirrels here at the Boggy Thicket - mostly typical Eastern Gray Squirrels, Sciurus carolinensis. I recently noticed that some - about a third of them - have White Ears.
The belly fur of the white-eared squirrels seems to be whiter than their more ordinary cousins. That may or may not be true - it's based on a few of each who have stood up and faced me in the past few days.
Gray squirrels are really more tan than gray, and a place we used to camp near Romayor, Texas, had a large colony of gray squirrels that were completely black.
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