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First A Purple Cow

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…and now this:

Dr Mike Edwards, an English teacher at Meoncross School in Stubbington, Hants, first spotted the squirrel outside his classroom window.

He said: ‘I was sitting in my classroom and looked out the window and saw it sitting on the fence. I had to do a double take.

‘Since then it’s been a bit of a regular at the school – everyone’s seen it.

‘We thought it might have been paint or something but then when you look at it up close, it’s an all-over coat, not in patches like you’d expect if it had been near some paint.

‘Its fur actually looks purple all the way through. It’s an absolute mystery.’

But I can tell you any how, I’d rather see than be one.

6 thoughts on “First A Purple Cow”

  1. Squirrels have some of the most amazing regional variations in coloration, from all-white to all-black. I don’t quite see purple as a normally-occuring color for anything except parrots, but I’d love to check back in a couple of years and see if it breeds true… just in case.
    sidebar: “The Black Squirrels” sounds like a great name for a slightly befuddled ecoterrorist group, don’t it?

  3. I hear that purple is in fashion this fall, so it might be that this particular squirrel likes to keep up with latest trends, thats all.

  4. From the picture in the link, it looks like they hired the guy tracking to Geico Gecko to look into the matter. Is the purple squirrel talking too?

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