Elusive RARE White Squirrel Spotted at Jamaica Pond

Elusive RARE White Squirrel Spotted at Jamaica Pond, originally uploaded by stevegarfield.

The elusive RARE White Squirrel was spotted at Jamaica Pond in Jamaica Plain. This time, out in the open along the water. You never see that.

"Its an Oriental Tree Squirrel with the scientific name Callosciurus finlaysoni (Callosciurus translates as "beautiful squirrel") found in Thailand and other parts of South East Asia. So if you sighted a white squirrel here in North America outside of captivity, its almost certainly a color variant of one of our many native species of the genus Sciurus"

via White Squirell Institute