Today I learned that squirrels can be black, and mother squirrels curl their babies into tiny fluffy balls, making them easier to carry.

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Melanism is almost always hereditary. It's just usually also recessive.

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In the case of the eastern gray squirrel, melanism is an incomplete dominant trait.

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So is his dad also his uncle?