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Rare albino squirrel is thriving in urban jungle
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A RARE albino squirrel has given birth to a pure white baby for
what is thought to be the first time in Scotland.
Albino squirrels normally do not survive long enough to breed -
their colouring makes them easy targets for predators. But experts
believe the birth, in Livingston, West Lothian, proves the rodents
can adapt to an urban environment.
The mother - a white version of the grey squirrel - is thought to
be about two years old and the same animal that was seen last year in
the Craigshill area of the new town.
Conservation officers have put the phenomenon of the birth down to
the fact ...
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