I once had a longish conversation with an older person about this and I’m 99% sure that they were using grey squirrels as code for non-European origin people and the red squirrels for European origin people. It kind of put me off the discussion of the best squirrels, and I like them all equally now.
‘Mon the squirrels!
“*If it’s no ginger, it’s shite!*” — Scottish citizen scientists
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Most of the red squirrels now here are about as native as the greys unfortunately. They were nearly wiped out in the 1800s and reintroduced from Sweden https://www.glasgownaturalhistory.org.uk/gn26_1/nar_conf/whats_natural.pdf?utm
They need to be doing that in the local parks.
I once had a longish conversation with an older person about this and I’m 99% sure that they were using grey squirrels as code for non-European origin people and the red squirrels for European origin people. It kind of put me off the discussion of the best squirrels, and I like them all equally now.
‘Mon the squirrels!
“*If it’s no ginger, it’s shite!*” — Scottish citizen scientists
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