Record #:

9121

Author(s):

Pusser, Todd

Abstract:

Eastern fox squirrels are the largest tree squirrels in the western hemisphere, weighing up to three pounds and having a body the size of a house cat. They are also strikingly colored in silver, gray, and black. In North Carolina they are an uncommon species, and development has taken much of their habitat in the longleaf pine forests of the Southeastern Coastal Plain. For that reason the North Carolina Natural Heritage Program has placed them on its watch list.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 71 Issue 7, July 2007, p4-9, il

Subject(s):

Squirrels; Fox squirrel