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Posted : Thu, 05 Jul 2007 22:02:01 GMT
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NORCROSS, Ga., July 5 A Georgia city has gone a little nuts for an albino squirrel.

After a Norcross, Ga., city employee caught the snowy white squirrel on camera, the squirrel's image is on the Norcross Web site under the headline "New mascot???" the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. One resident penned an ode to the squirrel. Others have reported seeing a whole family of albino squirrels.

"I don't know how long he's been there," City Clerk Susan Brooks told the newspaper. "He is kind of cute."

The founder of Atlanta Wild Animal Rescue Effort said white squirrels aren't that unusual and they don't necessarily carry the recessive gene that make them albino.

An albino squirrel will have blue or pink eyes, Michael Ellis said.

"There are reports of them every year -- albino crows, deer, just about any species," Ellis told the newspaper.

Copyright 2007 by UPI


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