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Black Squirrel Research Funded

Posted by: Loren Coleman on February 11th, 2008

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There is news of a considered and thoughtful educational effort to do “black squirrel” research. Due to a growing population on Long Island, New York, a new “Black Squirrel Headquarters” has sprung up in the Lake Grove neighborhood.

Noting the black squirrels have also “colonized suburban Washington D.C.; Reedsburg, Wis., and Princeton, N.J.,” Bill Roe’s organization gave out a research award.

They just announced a “$3,000 grant to Michele Miller and April Mindlin, fifth-grade teachers at the Eugene Auer Memorial Elementary School in Lake Grove, whose students are combining scientific methods and high-tech gadgets to study the area’s black squirrel population.”

Good for Mr. Roe, but it does point up a great gap in funding for unusual natural history research, doesn’t it?

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DWA responds: February 11th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
ONE, all right, TWO lousy camera traps in a sasquatch sighting hotspot.

Talk about a fifth-grade project! (They’ll probably be better with those cameras than the grownups.)

Black squirrels: color phase of the gray squirrel. There. Research, done.
gavinfundyk responds: February 11th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
Very interesting article. I think it may point out a possible area to explore in bringing more positive light to the Bigfoot subject.

People like cute, cuddly animals. Like the above-mentioned squirrels. Bigfoot is usually depicted as a large, smelly, ape-man.

Perhaps some of the artists out there, like William Rebsamen, could focus on the young Bigfoot. When I think of Diane Fossey, or Jane Goodall, I many times think of the young chimps or gorillas they worked with.

It might go a long way to changing public perception.

Just a thought.
greywolf responds: February 11th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
Well I guess we don’t know much about black squirrels. I remember as a young hunter about 55 or more years ago trying to shoot one.They come in gray,black also Fox squirrels, and I think the little critters have cousens all over the country. So what don’t we know?
Oh I forgot people are different to. Great way to teach the kids but we need some money for BF research.
maslo63 responds: February 11th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
Simple reason why black squirrels are worth studying more than bigfoot: They actually exist!

But seriously the squirrels do sound like an interesting and worthy subject to study and though I am skeptical of most of the popular cryptids sasquach is of great interest to me and IMO one of the more plausible cryptids. It is difficult to promote funding for something that we aren’t even sure exists though. I guess the real question isn’t why we’re researching squirrels instead of sasquach but rather why aren’t we focusing more on sasquach instead of extraterritorial life. We have the technology to find bigfoot (but not so much aliens). If the animal exists and our government wanted to they could probably find one within the week.
maslo63 responds: February 11th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
Did I actually just write extraterritorial life? Sorry about that folks, I think you know what I ment!
Cashel responds: February 11th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
My town has a lot of black squirrels, they’re just about as common as red squirrels around here.
No greys though, extraterrestrial or squirrel.
Richard888 responds: February 11th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
When it comes to conspiracy theories I am a cynic. But here is a thought that crossed my mind lately. What if BF is not a cryptid at all but an officially recognized though classified animal? Maybe an echelon of scientists (Loren included? LOL) have long discovered BF and are concerned that if people find out about it it might get hunted to extinction. You just never know.
squatch-toba responds: February 11th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
Re; DWA,…Well said!
fossilhunter responds: February 11th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
These can also be seen in the National Zoo in Washington DC. I have video of one of the critters cooling off in the misters of the Red Panda exhibit. However, controversy has erupted since following this video is a clip of five otters cavorting in the water, on top of my assertion that I saw several “apes” on the property, but my camcorder’s battery had just conked out.
cryptidsrus responds: February 11th, 2008 at 10:53 pm
Amusing stuff.

I did not know squirrel research was that riveting. Less hazardous and scary than BF research, though. At least for fifth-graders. (Chuckle.)

Unfortunately our society goes for the ultra-rationalistic, “If I cannot see it, it does not exist” line of thought. That is one of the reasons Bigfoot is not given the attention it deserves.
jaudie responds: February 16th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
When I lived in Brookline MA a couple years ago, we had a little black squirrel who used to frequent our backyard. It was a bit smaller than the other gray ones. Also, last year my boyfriend saw an albino squirrel several times a couple miles away near Jamaica Pond. We do have photos of both of them. I wish we could catch them and get them to mate so we could create hybrid Holstein squirrels!

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