Talk:Squirrels on college campuses

Good grief!!
This article is crazy US dominated, as if Squirrels were not found on university campuses in the United Kingdom and elsewhere. Not sure how I can improve it however from Australia. --Bduke (talk) 07:18, 4 June 2023 (UTC)


 * The sourcing I found presents it as a largely North American / U.S. phenomenon, and that includes scholarly journal articles. But if you're able to find any European or Australian-centric sources, that would be helpful of course. Soulbust (talk) 08:53, 6 June 2023 (UTC)
 * And as though it's specifically universities and colleges. What a bizarre article. Secretlondon (talk) 17:44, 11 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Is there a concern with the article here? Because yes it's specific, but that's because there is a lot of coverage and research on the phenomenon of squirrels populating college campuses in particular. This wouldn't be the first article pertaining to specific squirrel behavior.
 * There is also a whole category with articles about how animals find themselves in a particular setting or environment. Eastern grey squirrels in Europe is one, Rats in New York City is another. Soulbust (talk) 00:23, 13 July 2023 (UTC)

Princeton
I am disappointed that the article fails to note the urban legend that Princeton University's campus squirrels—with an unusually large number of melanistic grey squirrels—are intended to reflect the university's colors of orange and black. The cited Huffpost source gives two versions of this: a selective breeding experiment (officially denied in the Weekly Bulletin in 1999) and importation of both orange and black squirrels, according to Huffpost attributed to Moses Taylor Pyne. There are online sources that the orange squirrels have since died out, leaving the black squirrels as an unofficial mascot. (This saddens and puzzles me; when I was last on the Princeton campus there were plenty of slightly rufous squirrels. Cornell also had a lot of those on campus.) I would have expected this tradition to fall squarely within the article's remit. Yngvadottir (talk) 21:42, 11 July 2023 (UTC)


 * Sorry it wasn't there before, but I'll see where I can work it into the article. When going through the sourcing, I found a lot of universities that had squirrel-related traditions, mascots, ongoings, etc. So I probably just glossed it over in the moment. Thanks for bringing this up, as well as providing that Weekly Bulletin reference. Soulbust (talk) 00:18, 13 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Sorry it took quite a while, but I have incorporated that information into the article. Thank you again for the suggestion. Best wishes, Soulbust (talk) 03:40, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Great, thank you :-) Yngvadottir (talk) 04:41, 15 June 2024 (UTC)