Forest Of Flying Squirrel
Forest Of Flying Squirrel. Northern flying squirrels are very important to the ecology of forests in western north america. They are not capable of flight in the same way as birds or bats but.
They stretch out their legs, spreading the fold of skin between the front and hind legs, to form a kind of parachute that lets them glide from branch to branch.
The smallest of the tree squirrels, its body color is gray to chestnut with a white belly. Flying squirrels (scientifically known as pteromyini or petauristini) are a tribe of 50 species of squirrels in the family sciuridae. Three species are north american, two live in northern eurasia, and all others are found in the temperate and tropical forests of india and asia. Two species of flying squirrels are found in pennsylvania.
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