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The Delmarva Fox Squirrel is an endangered subspecies of fox squirrel that lives in most of the United States, but is most likely to be found in the East. Like all fox squirrels, the Delmarva has a full, fluffy tail. The Delmarva fox squirrel is frosty silver to slate gray with a white belly and can grow to be 30 inches long, including up to 15 inches of tail. They depend mostly on tree seeds but sometimes eat buds, small lizards, fruit, bird’s eggs, insects, and grain. Cannibalism has been reported but is very rare. Fox squirrels are diurnal which means that they stay mostly on land. They are known for being “living fossils” because they are skeletally similar to the remains of the oldest-living squirrel.
