Saw a melanistic squirrel (specifically, Eurasian squirrel, sciurus vulgaris; far as I know the only squirrel species around) near my place yesterday; it was *surprisingly* dark, but showed every behaviour of the local squirrels (on being approached running up the trunk on the far side, then looking from above, and reacting in clicking chatter with abrupt tail movements when being chattered at).

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