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Flying squirrel in flight. Southern flying squirrels have grey-brown fur on top with darker flanks and are a cream colored underneath. They have large dark eyes and flattened tails. They have a furry membrane called a patagium that extends from the front to the rear legs and is used to glide through the air. Total length (including tail) is 21 ...
Flying squirrels (scientifically known as Pteromyini or Petauristini) are a tribe of 50 species of squirrels in the family Sciuridae.Despite their name, they are not in fact capable of full flight in the same way as birds or bats, but they are able to glide from one tree to another with the aid of a patagium, a furred skin membrane that stretches from wrist to ankle.
Squirrels are generally small animals, ranging in size from the African pygmy squirrel and least pygmy squirrel at 10–14 cm (3.9–5.5 in) in total length and just 12–26 g (0.42–0.92 oz) in weight, [8] [9] to the Bhutan giant flying squirrel at up to 1.27 m (4 ft 2 in) in total length, [10] and several marmot species, which can weigh 8 kg ...
Assapan, southern flying squirrel (Glaucomys volans) squirrel: Eastern Algonquian, probably Powhatan "Assapan", the common name in the Southern United States is first attested as assapanick and was probably borrowed from Powhatan, but this is disputed. [28] [29] [30] Athabascasaurus † ichthyosaur: Woods Cree
Eupetaurus cinereus - Western woolly flying squirrel; Eupetaurus nivamons - Yunnan woolly flying squirrel; Eupetaurus tibetensis - Tibetan woolly flying squirrel; Genus Glaucomys. Glaucomys oregonensis - Humboldt's flying squirrel; Glaucomys sabrinus - northern flying squirrel; Glaucomys volans - southern flying squirrel; Genus Hylopetes
The southern fox squirrel (Sciurus niger niger) is a close relative of the gray squirrel, which is one of the most common squirrel species in the country, and is considered to be the most variably ...
The northern flying squirrel (Glaucomys sabrinus) is one of three species of the genus Glaucomys, the only flying squirrels found in North America. [2] [3] They are found in coniferous and mixed coniferous forests across much of Canada, from Alaska to Nova Scotia, and south to the mountains of North Carolina and west to Utah in the United States.
Petaurista is a genus of rodent in the family Sciuridae. [1] They are large to very large flying squirrels found in forests and other wooded habitats in southern and eastern Asia.