sabrinus). The tail is white to grayish white below. The southern flying squirrel is smaller than the northern, and is approximately 210-255 mm (8.3-10.0 in) in length which includes an 80-110 mm (3.1 ...

Apart from these differences, and larger size, the northern flying squirrel resembles the southern. Adults are 250-298 mm (10-11.7 in) in total length, and weigh 75-125 g (2.6-4.4 oz). The range is ...

There are about 50 species of flying squirrels ranging across most of North America down into Central America, and stretching from Southeast and Northern Asia into Siberia and Scandinavia.

Flying squirrels thrive in forests with big trees and closed-canopy cover, large snags that provide nesting cavities, downed logs that foster the growth of the truffles they eat and understory cover ...

Flying snakes are technically better gliders than their more popular mammalian equivalents, the flying squirrels ... are variable depending on their range, but they are known to eat rodents ...

Lichen and mosses are often abundant, as are standing snags and downed logs. The squirrels nest in tree cavities, and suitable nesting sites are more common in old-growth forests. RANGE: West Virginia ...

In 2001, a wildlife rehabilitator named Christy Hargrove decided squirrels deserved a little respect. So she founded National ...