Kaibab White-Tailed Squirrel

How can that be? I'm in Ontario and the Kaibab squirrel is only found in the ponderosa pine forests of the northern Kaibab Plateau in Arizona!

people will transport animals all over the world... but it sure LOOKED like one

In which case it could be an escaped pet?

Brampton is arguably the logistics capital of Ontario. Chances are it got into a transport truck in Arizona(?) and hopped out in Brampton.

Possibly. He hangs out with a grey squirrel.

It's probably just an eastern grey squirrel. According to Wiki, white tails are a known variation.
"As the name suggests, the eastern gray squirrel has predominantly gray fur but it can have a reddish color... There are also genetic variations within these, including individuals with black tails and black colored squirrels with white tails..."

I've never seen that myself, so it might not be a common variation, but it's not unknown.

I've been trying to dig up articles on it and you and wikipedia are probably right, it's a mutation? Rare I think.
Would be interesting to find out just how many of these white-tails are out there.
Thanks for the info d'otter :)

NP!

There is this website: http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we.....quirrel%20piques%20interest&s_dispstring=headline(Odd%20squirrel%20piques%20interest)&xcal_numdocs=20&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&xcal_useweights=no

But it won't let me read the full article without signing up. Probably have to pay to sign up too. Anyway, this is the little piece I could find which is interesting:

"Date: August 1, 2007
Publication: Midweek, The (Sycamore, IL)
By Frank Vaisvilas If you spotted a fluffy white tail cavorting around the tree in front of your house, you're not necessarily squirrely. Dorothy Coleman captured such a squirrel with her camera. An adjunct faculty member at NIU, Coleman said she thinks the little rodents are a mutation that has suddenly appeared in DeKalb. Maybe. Peter Meserve, a professor of biological sciences at NIU, thinks not. He said they're a mutation of the fox squirrel and he has seen them in..."
This could be relevant.

looks to me like a european red squirl... but its tail is white, why i dunno never seen that before.

Allso it moves much much slower then a ususal squirle does, as all thsoe i seen moves like a suggar & caffine addict.

Could be the lovechild of an albino and regular squirrel. =3
Was one of it's eyes red?

No, but then again I've never been able to get a close up look. He's so shy.