Purple squirrel captured in Pennsylvania
Experts aren't sure what caused the critter's unique coloring, but they do have several theories.
RAINBOW RODENT: Percy and Connie Emert captured the squirrel on Sunday, Feb. 5. (Photo: Accuweather) 
A couple in Pennsylvania trapped a purple squirrel on Sunday, Feb. 5, but experts aren’t certain what’s behind the critter’s colorful coat.Comments
A Twitter account, eh? There are days I love Twitter and days I don't. Jokey Twitter accounts based on current events make me want to put a fist through the wall. Who gives a damn what the "Escaped Zoo Snake" has to say about American Idol? In two months, we'll be saying, "Huh?" to "Purple Squirrel" Twitter.
Percy and Connie should talk to the people in the beauty parlors in their neighborhood. I am sure that the some of the beauticians were responsible for the origin of this creature with a color of royalty.
I bet it's the Fracking !!! Imagine what it will do to us humans !!
I think it looks pretty natural is it possible it was just born that way like people with difrent color hair?!
I have rescued a number of squirrels over the years who had one ailment or another (none were blue, though) and they are amazingly adaptable to confinement and study. Most of mine recovered from what ailed them and returned eventually to the wild, which they also do with quite a bit of ease. My point here is that they should live-trap the little rascal and cofine him in a roomy habitat while they do some tests. A number of chemicals can be isolated from samples of fur, but squirrels can.... More
"Fracking", really? What justification is there to bring this up?
We read in ancient text of people who were dark blue and purple, both the Christian and Hindi sacred histories. While now visibly extinct, wouldn't doubt recessive genes survived in us, as well as in the Animal kingdom. As extinctions rage, could very well be nature's battle to reintroduce into the visible world the genetic recesses that are better able to adapt to and survive the present influx of contaminants. Not sayin'. Just wonderin'.
They're not extinct; they can be found in KY. See http://abcnews.go.com/Health/blue-skinned-people-kentucky-reveal-todays-...
Maybe the color was caused by fracking, or maybe the animal was dyed by opponents of fracking to raise alarm bells. Most likely the squirrel is getting ready for lent.
I think he's purple for the Baltimore Ravens who beat the daylights out of the Steelers in the playoffs. Mwahahaha!!
It's just purple for Lent..
as long he is all right not sick people leave him alone
Someone was feeding the squirrel Brazil nuts. They are so high in bromine that I almost gave myself bromine poisoning eating too many last year because I was buying them every week at the farmer's market. Almonds and pistaccios have bromine, too. but not as high.
Oh great. In addition to causing groundwater to become combustible, fracking is causing squirrels to turn purple?!?
Ain't progress grand... :P
he is just very cold and needs a hug but mind your nuts
ugh, why can't the squirrels eat from bird feeders people??
I agree. If people would put out enough food for all the animals it wouldn't be a problem. Or put out squirrel food in addition to bird food. Squirrels need to eat, too. I had ducks coming to my bird feeder a couple years ago. The following year I barely got any birds at all.
My husband says this could actually be a genetic predisposition. Too bad they didn't keep him around for a little discovery research.
Its got into some old ladies purple hair coloring!!!!!!
Maybe this is a little obvious, but maybe its a domesticated squirrel and was someone's pet. We had a white cat once that we coloured pink with a safe dye for Halloween.
FRACKING?
Fracking is using water pressure to crack rock. it's a mining technique
"Hydraulic fracturing (also called "fracking"), a method for extracting oil and natural gas"
No fracking way...
And it is TOTALLY safe and can't at all result in chemical spillover into the water table and cause natural gas or chemicals used for the rock softening properties to end up in your local water supply.
And remember Kids if you see a flash: make like Tommy the turtle and duck and cover!
I know this is off the subject, but fracking ISN'T totally safe--haven't you seen Gasland?
Injecting cancer causing chemicals and pollutants into the ground, poisoning water and causing earthquakes as in Ohio and poisoning wildlife and eventually humans, who now live in structurally damaged homes is always a good idea.
