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• Gallery: Commons:Featured_pictures/Animals/Mammals#Family_:_Sciuridae_(Squirrels)
•  Info A white eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis), an extremely uncommon variation in an extremely common species, this is either the first or second I've ever seen (probably the same individual I saw a couple years ago). There are two causes of white squirrels: albinism and leucism. You can tell this one is leucistic by the dark eye. It's unknown exactly how rare they are because it's assumed that they don't live very long in the wild (the ones with albinism because of vision problems, and the rest because they may be more conspicuous to predators), but I saw one guess of 1 in 100,000. I just uploaded several shots of this one, and while this image obscures part of its body, I like the composition. all by — Rhododendrites ^talk |  18:47, 29 January 2023 (UTC)
•  Support — Rhododendrites ^talk |  18:47, 29 January 2023 (UTC)
•  Comment Cute, very typical squirrel behavior. Is this stitched? There's one hard line above the squirrel's head that marks a boundary between a brighter tan and a blue and darker tan. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 19:26, 29 January 2023 (UTC)
  • @Ikan Kekek: Ah! No, not stitched, but there was a tiny branch sticking out there that I removed [poorly]. Fixed now, I think. — Rhododendrites ^talk |  19:36, 29 January 2023 (UTC)
•  Support Yes, it's good now. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 20:10, 29 January 2023 (UTC)
•  Support Nice light, composition and background -- Basile Morin (talk) 01:09, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
•  Support --Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 10:20, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
•  Support --Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 10:27, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
•  Support per Ikan. --Aristeas (talk) 10:35, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
•  Support -- Radomianin (talk) 11:33, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
•  Support --Uoaei1 (talk) 16:01, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
•  Support. ··· 🌸 Rachmat04 · ☕ 16:18, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
•  Support -- Johann Jaritz (talk) 05:55, 31 January 2023 (UTC)
•  Support -- Ivar (talk) 06:55, 31 January 2023 (UTC)
•  Support--Ermell (talk) 07:17, 31 January 2023 (UTC)
•  Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 08:07, 31 January 2023 (UTC)
•  Support -- IamMM (talk) 10:39, 31 January 2023 (UTC)
•  Support --Llez (talk) 15:21, 31 January 2023 (UTC)
•  Support --Argenberg (talk) 17:27, 31 January 2023 (UTC)
•  Support --Famberhorst (talk) 18:27, 31 January 2023 (UTC)
•  Support --Schnobby (talk) 10:03, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
•  Support --Fischer.H (talk) 10:37, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
•  Support Charlesjsharp (talk) 11:50, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
•  Support One of our cockatiels is like this ... thanks for showing me the word for "all-white but not albino". Daniel Case (talk) 19:02, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
•  Support Poco a poco (talk) 19:22, 1 February 2023 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 22 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /-- Radomianin (talk) 22:05, 3 February 2023 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Animals/Mammals#Family_:_Sciuridae_(Squirrels)