This interesting fellow lives at the University of Texas campus in Austin. Or, at least, he did several years ago. A female leucistic squirrel lives nearby. There's a campus superstition that seeing an albino squirrel before a test is good luck, but it's anyone's guess if there was ever actually a true albino squirrel on campus.
Albinism and leucism are similar, but have an important distinction. Albino animals are missing all the pigment in their bodies (or, all of certain types of pigment), leucistic animals are missing some of it. If this squirrel was actually albino, he would be pure white, with pink eyes. You can see he has some orange on him, and black eyes.
He was very friendly, probably from being fed. Understandable, but a bit worrying- I don't particularly like to be approached by wild mammals. Wild animals of any sort, but particularly not mammals. Rabies is terrifying.
