The Variegated Squirrel is one of the most colorful squirrels in North America, with numerous geographic color forms ranging from gray to black to orange, often within a single region of Mexico or Central America. It is a large, conspicuous tree squirrel of lowland and montane tropical forests. Variegated squirrels have been linked to a bornavirus associated with fatal encephalitis in animal keepers in Europe.
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