![]() Though a breed of white squirrel does exist, the white squirrels in Brevard are thought to be a color variation of the Eastern Gray Squirrel. Once in the wild, the squirrels began breeding, and soon there was a rapidly growing population in Transylvania County.īrevard’s white squirrels all have similar markings-a white body with a pigmented head patch, shoulder saddle and dorsal stripe, and dark eyes. After she left home in 1951, one of the squirrels escaped, and so the other was let go to join its mate. She attempted to breed them, but wasn’t successful. Mull, Lang’s uncle, who later gave the squirrels to her. Black then passed the squirrels along to H.H. ![]() ![]() in 1949 when a carnival truck carrying these unique creatures overturned near his home. According to Barbara Mull Lang, two white squirrels were caught by a Mr. The story says they arrived by way of a carnival accident. So how did the white squirrels of Brevard come to be? Well, that story is a little more fantastical. “We have to convince them that we didn’t just make it up.” “Most people that come here think it’s a joke and that we don’t really have white squirrels,” says Madrid Zimmerman, executive director of Heart of Brevard. Only about a dozen other cities in the United States can claim being home to white squirrel colonies. Though colonies of populations of white squirrels are somewhat rare, North Carolina is host to two such locations-the most notable being Brevard. It may sound like the start of a science fiction novel, but white squirrels are no myth.
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