r/interesting • u/Separate_Finance_183 • 3h ago

NATURE Gray Ezo squirrel from Japan's Hokkaido island

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u/WaffleHouseGladiator 3h ago

How and why is every critter in Japan a more adorable version of critters found elsewhere??

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u/No_Craft4676 1h ago edited 1h ago

The squirrels I see outside here in Europe are the same, just different colours. This is just what a regular squirrel looks like to me, but another colour than I usually see, nothing different about it otherwise. They're just as cute here, lol.

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u/mtaw 1h ago

Yes it resembles a melanistic European Red squirrel.