The Siberian flying squirrel ranges across Northern Europe and Russia, but a population on the Japanese island of Hokkaido is now considered an endemic subspecies, known as Pteromys volans orii ...

The northern flying squirrel eats relatively more fungi, which it collects above ground, excavates from the soil, and pilfers from the caches of the red squirrel. Activity and Movement Both species of ...

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. They ...

There are 5 species in Pennsylvania: gray, fox, red, northern flying squirrel and southern flying squirrel. Don't Edit. They can be white.

The general color of the upper portions of the body, head and tail of the southern flying squirrel is drab olive gray, darkest and almost black at the edges of the membranes. The underparts of the ...

The group went looking for northern flying squirrels because they are an endangered species. According to the Pennsylvania Game Commission, an extensive study in Pennsylvania from 2003 through ...

President Obama Called on to Restore Protection to Endangered Flying Squirrel. WASHINGTON, D.C.— George Bush has been out of office for more than two months on this April Fool’s Day – but the West ...

A flying squirrel pauses dramatically at a nest box. With incredibly delicate whiskers, these animals extend their vibrissae forward upon landing, using them to help pinpoint the perfect touchdown ...

Our northern flying squirrels grow fur on the soles of their feet in winter. Less territorial than other rodents, they aggregate in numbers in house rafters and hollow trees in winter for communal ...

Flying squirrels, obviously, can traverse much farther distances midair—the northern flying squirrel, for instance, can glide up to 295 feet. 2. Squirrels are very organized.