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#Melanistic squirrel#!!!#There's at least one in the area around my apartment and they're so fucking pretty#Nature#Outdoors
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do you know what the deal is with this weird squirrel? we have a lot of black squirrels in the park nearby but ive never seen one like this before. symmetrical pattern, its other side looked the same.
Eastern grey squirrels are funky! Here are oddly colored individuals on my favorite iNaturalist group, they seem to be the most commonly reported species. Melanistic ones don’t always come in pure black, they can be very interesting like the one you saw!
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Sciurus carolinensis / Gray Squirrel
11/1/23 Wildlife World Zoo
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Qhuinn(left) and Benjamin(right) eating their dinner! Yum yum~
#Benjamin the squirrel#Qhuinn the squirrel#eastern gray squirrel#black squirrel#melanistic#squirrel#squirrels#squirrelblr
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black squirrel
#echos#squirrel#fun fact#I've moved a lot of times but somehow every single time i move to a new town#there is at least one family of all-black squirrels there#these aren't a different species to the regular grey squirrel they're just melanistic so theyre all black#it's like albinism or leucism but in the opposite direction#it's pretty cool this is the same kind of thing that makes jaguars into black panthers
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Ref Sheet 2.0 - Gabriel (SFW)
Version 2.0 of my ref sheet for Gabriel! No changes to the art; I did add a bunch more info for him, and color swatches!
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Today is my fifth anniversary at my current job, and as if to celebrate, this melanistic gray squirrel finally let me take clear photos of it! For several years on my lunch break walks, I’ve been seeing a mysterious dark-furred creature, but only for a split second before it disappeared. I couldn’t tell whether it was a squirrel, a mink or a kitten.
A few months ago, I saw it more clearly and realized it was indeed a squirrel, but with beautiful jet black fur! It would always run away before I could take photos. Not today, though!
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Bit of a random one but rereading the parable of the squirrels got me curious: how would clan cats (or just thunderclan in particular) view black/melanistic squirrels? Have any of them ever seen one? Im not sure how common they are in the uk, but i know they can be relatively prevalent in areas that have them sometimes
Black squirrels are nothing more than a simple morph! They get common in areas that have melanistic genes present as a result of simple genetic drift, though I've seen it proposed that black fur is an advantage in cold areas.
The gene is rare in the populations the Warriors come across, so they almost never see it. In spite of ShadowClan's unwillingness to control the gray squirrel population, ThunderClan is so aggressive about it that the pool stays shallow. Red Squirrels (pishkaf) do not have this gene. Only Gray Squirrels (chakchak) do.
So every time a black squirrel manages to occur, it's treated like a dire omen. Even ShadowClan takes it seriously.
Black as a color is associated with day and night cycles, because of Moon Shadow, Sun Shadow, and Shadowstar. Gray Squirrels are associated with war and benefit at the suffering of others. These things together herald great upheaval-- so cataclysmic that it would likely not be an "honorable conflict."
If you came to your Cleric with this omen, they would be struck with a look of terrible alarm. They'd be interested in its context, what it was doing, if it was eating anything, what its surroundings looked like. Someone like BB!Runningnose, interested in supporting Brokenstar's ambitions, might spin it as a positive sign.
Most Clerics would announce that the squirrel needs to be killed IMMEDIATELY, and launch a massive hunt to destroy it. What would come next would likely depend on the culture of the time, but for the most part I can imagine some sort of mass "purification" ritual. The whole Clan trying to identify how they can avoid the cataclysm, one of the few times where they see a glorious war as a bad thing.
The cat who kills the squirrel would likely earn an Honor Title. It's also very likely that the body of the animal is treated as a very powerful material-- burned to ash to prevent its use in forbidden magic or carefully preserved and made into something special, no in-between.
(Thinking about it... thanks for the idea I'll totally do this for Brokenstar's Cataclysm lmao. The sinew of the black squirrel is probably used to re-string Runny's acorn necklace.)
#Note that this is why Clanmew doesn't use a generic term for squirrel#Reds and Grays have maaaaassively different cultural meanings!#You can make Pishchak or Chakaf on the spot but it would hit weird to a Clan cat.#Closest English example; it's like calling a fox a 'reynard' or a wolf a 'lupine beast'#Clan culture#Pishkaf om chakchak#Squirrels#Gray squirrel#Red squirrel#Better Bones Au
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Here are some photos I took of melanistic fox squirrels (Sciurus niger) from Colorado Springs.
Thanks for the share! Man, I love all melanistic animals, but especially ones that are not solid black. Love the dark grizzled look, gorgeous!
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Will we ever see peacock Jon with dogboy Elias? Will anyone else in the Magnus Institute join the party?
You will. You have. Some classic, very normal interaction between dogboy Elias and peacock Jon in season 1. Nothing weird about these two at all. They are the most normal men in the room.
Because I am insufferable, I will share my season 1 and season 3 (spoiler-minimal) archival crew beneath the cut.
I'm not totally settled on all the designs. (I think Tim might be better as a stag. I'm indecisive, as always.) Yes, these are pencil sketches I made in a notebook during my lunch break. Anyways. For S1: Martin is a squirrel, Tim is a retriever, Sasha is a cat, Jon is a peacock, and Elias is (of course) a dogboy like in canon. For S3: Melanie is a badger, Basira is a melanistic fox, Daisy is a wolf, and Peter is a seal.
Also, I have assigned Jon and Elias manlet status. Jon, because he is completely devoid of swag. Elias, because he contains entirely too much. Melanie must also be short because she is an obvious narrative foil to Jon. She is a quintessential failgirl in my eyes.
#more blather with less art#anonymous#i would let dogboy elias mismanage my 403b anyday#do you love that i refuse to remember how to draw a suit. i think it's very cool and assertive of me.#look i like tim as a deer but also he has such dog energy. which takes a very sad turn in season 3 but like--#its archivin time
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