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Sciurus carolinensis (eastern gray squirrel; gray squirrel; grey squirrel)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Sciurus carolinensis, common name eastern gray squirrel or grey squirrel depending on region, is a tree squirrel in the genus Sciurus. It is native to eastern North America, but has since been introduced to European regions.
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Infraspecies

Sciurus carolinensis carolinensis
Sciurus carolinensis extimus
Sciurus carolinensis fuliginosus
Sciurus carolinensis hypophaeus
Sciurus carolinensis pennsylvanicus

Invasive Species

View ISSG Record: Sciurus carolinensis

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
9
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 2.96
EDGE Score: 1.38
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  1.175 lbs (533 g)
Birth Weight [1]  15 grams
Male Weight [4]  1.155 lbs (524 g)
Diet [2]  Frugivore, Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  20 %
Diet - Plants [2]  30 %
Diet - Seeds [2]  50 %
Forages - Arboreal [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [1]  11 months 13 days
Male Maturity [1]  1 year 1 month
Gestation [1]  44 days
Litter Size [1]  4
Litters / Year [1]  2
Maximum Longevity [1]  24 years
Snout to Vent Length [4]  13 inches (32 cm)
Speed [5]  11.99 MPH (5.36 m/s)
Weaning [1]  66 days
Habitat Substrate [3]  Arboreal

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

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Ecosystems

Habitat Vegetation Classification

Name Location  Website 
Black Oak - White Oak - Hickory Forest United States (Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin, Indiana); Canada (Ontario)
Interior Low Plateau Beech - Maple Forest United States (Indiana, Tennessee, Missouri, Alabama, Ohio, Illinois, Kentucky)
Interior Low Plateau Chestnut Oak Forest United States (Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee)
Interior Low Plateau Mesic Bottomland Forest United States (Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio)
Interior Low Plateau Post Oak - Blackjack Oak Woodland United States (Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois)
Interior Low Plateau Post Oak Dry Barrens United States (Illinois, Kentucky)
Overcup Oak - Sweetgum Bottomland Forest United States (Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Illinois, Arkansas, Louisiana)
Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine - Black Oak Woodland United States (Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas)
Pin Oak - Post Oak Lowland Flatwoods United States (Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Arkansas)
Post Oak - White Oak Dry-Mesic Barrens United States (Illinois)
Southern Red Oak - Mixed Oak Forest United States (Tennessee, Illinois, Kentucky)
Swamp Chestnut Oak - Sweetgum Floodplain Forest United States (Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Indiana, Missouri, Illinois)
Willow Oak Bottomland Flatwoods Forest United States (Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi, Arkansas)

Emblem of

North Carolina

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

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Predators

Providers

Consumers

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 4Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 5Wikipedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
♦ 6Study of Northern Virginia Ecology
♦ 7Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 8Diet of the Timber Rattlesnake, Crotalus horridus, Rulon W. Clark, Journal of Herpetology, Vol. 36, No. 3, pp. 494-499, 2002
♦ 9International Flea Database
♦ 10Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0