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Southern Flying Squirrel

Glaucomys volans

Photo by LisaPowers
Published on Project Noah
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36.0585, -85.7477

Field Notes

Description:

Small brownish-gray mammal with white belly, large round eyes, and flaps of skin between the forelimbs and hindlimbs used for gliding.

Habitat:

Mature hardwood oak-hickory forest. They were coming to eat bird seed from the feeders at a mountain home.

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Comments (2)
LisaPowers
LOl, that was exactly the when and where that I was! :-)
hernandezwolf99
Always wanted to see one but they're mostly nocturnal and are found in the deeper part of woods. Nice shot Lisa!

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National Geographic's Great Nature Project
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PublishedJuly 2, 2014

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