This squirrel is very vulnerable to decimation by hurricanes , as evidenced by the 

 devastation wrought by Hurricane Donna in 1960. The famous "town-squirrel" population 

 reported by Moore (1954) in the Everglades City area was virtually wiped out by this 

 hurricane and have not yet repopulated to its previous level . 



The scarcity and decreasing range of the Everglades fox squirrel has been documented 

 by both Schwartz (1952) and Moore (1956) . 



References : 



Brown, L.N. 1971. Everglades fox squirrel rare and becoming rarer. Florida 



Wildlife . 

 Howell , A . H . 1919 . Notes on the fox squirrels of the southwestern United States , 



with description of a new form from Florida. Jour. Mamm. 1: 36-38. 

 Moore, J. C. 1954. Fox squirrel receptionists . Everglades Natural History , 2: 153-160 . 

 . 1956. Variation in the fox squirrel in Florida . American Midi . 



Naturalist, 55:41-65. 

 Schwartz, A. 1952. The land mammals of southern Florida and the upper Florida Keys. 



Ph.D. Dissertation, Univ. Michigan, Ann Arbor. 



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