Thanks RAZD.
I remember years ago reading about them.
I found this on Wikipedia:
Wikipedia writes:
The Kaibab squirrel lives in the ponderosa pine forests,[4] where it builds its nest out of twigs and pine needles. It eats acorns, fruit, and fungi (especially an underground truffle),[3] as well as the seeds, bark, and twigs of the trees where it makes its home. The Kaibab squirrel's most significant source of food is the seeds found within ponderosa pine cones.[5] Young squirrels are born between April and August.
Kaibab squirrels, ponderosa pines, and the fungi which grow in the vicinity of the ponderosas exist in a symbiotic relationship.
In the past the Kaibab squirrel was given species status (Sciurus kaibabensis) but today is considered a subspecies of the Abert's squirrel, (Sciurus aberti).[6]
The Kaibab squirrel is an example of evolution occurring through geographic isolation.[3] The Abert's squirrel, with its several subspecies, has a much broader distribution and is found on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. The difference between North Rim and South Rim Abert's squirrels has given rise to the commonly held, but incorrect assumption that the canyon itself acted as a barrier preventing gene flow between the two populations, but modern Kaibab squirrels are descended from populations of Abert's squirrels that dispersed into the Grand Canyon area following the last ice age.[7] As the climate warmed, ponderosa pine stands and the Abert's squirrels living there, were limited to areas of high elevation like the Kaibab Plateau. These isolated populations eventually became modern Kaibab squirrels and, as the climate cooled again and ponderosa pines once again grew at lower elevations, other Abert's squirrel subspecies returned to the Grand Canyon area, filling in their former niches on the South Rim.
I seem to remember something about a controversy over the proposed building of an observatory or something. There was a protest that it could have a negative impact on one of the populations.
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