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	Flying squirrel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 2 species of the genus Glaucomys (Glaucomys sabrinus and Glaucomys volans) are native to North America, and it is these that are most often meant when the name "flying squirrel" is used in English.
		Flying squirrels do not fly in the same sense as birds or bats - they do not employ powered flight.
		Though their lifespan is only about five years in the wild, flying squirrels often live between 10 and 15 years in captivity.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Flying_squirrel (455 words)

	Flying
		Flying Squad The Flying Squad is a branch of London's Cockney rhyming slang for "Sweeney Todd"/"Flying Squad") and "The...
		A kite is an object that flies by opposing the force of the wind w...
		The Flying Nun The Flying Nun was a 1970.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/flying.html (1223 words)

	Bugmaster, Inc.: Common Pests (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The gray squirrel is a member of the squirrel family, a group of rodents that includes the ground squirrels and flying squirrels, woodchucks and other prairie dogs, and chipmunks.
		The dwarf flying squirrels from the same region have only one to three young: they are born with fur; their eyes are open; and they are able to eat solid food.
		Flying Squirrel, any of several rodents that glide from higher to lower tree branches by means of a membrane of furry skin stretched between their long forelegs and hindlegs.
	www.bugmasterpest.com /pests.htm (7167 words)

	[Eco-list] Woolly flying squirrel facing extinction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Woolly flying squirrel facing extinction The Dawn, By Farman Ali, 27/6/2002 http://www.dawn.com/2002/06/27/nat26.htm ISLAMABAD, June 26: Woolly flying squirrel, a shy human friendly animal, is threatened with extinction, as it is facing several dangers.
		The Woolly Flying Squirrel (Eupetaurus Cinereus) is threatened with extinction.
		The woolly flying squirrel lives in caves and crevices in vertical rocks with eagle owl and bats from where 'Salajit' (storax, the resin of styrax officinalis tree) is extracted.
	lists.isb.sdnpk.org /pipermail/eco-list/2002-June/002645.html (840 words)

	volume 2
		Flyger, Vagn- Squirrel expert living in Washington, D. Flying squirrel- Any member of two distinct groups of rodents that are able to make gliding leaps by means of the parachute-like membranes connected on each side to their forelegs and hind legs.
		The subspecies that occurs in the Florida Parishes is the Bachman's fox squirrel, Sciurus niger bachmani.
		The Arizona gray squirrel is limited to the deciduous riparian forest of the San Francisco drainage in Catron County.
	www.geocities.com /yosemite/rapids/4362/vol2.html (1689 words)

	Geological Society - News - Squirrels' screwy evolutionary tale is hidden in their nuts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The squirrel family is one of the very few mammalian families endemic to Eurasia, Africa, North America and South America, and is ideal for examining these issues" says John Mercer, a Duke University assistant professor of biology, and Louise Roth, associate professor of biology.
		Mercer and Roth analysed DNA differences among 50 of the 51 present-day squirrel genera to deduce their interrelationships, leaving out only one Indian flying squirrel that is too rare to study.
		And the authors' evidence suggests that both tree and flying squirrel lineages crossed between the two continents there at a time when the land bridge was open and the environment properly leafy.
	www.geolsoc.org.uk /template.cfm?name=Squirrels (912 words)

	Woolly Flying Squirrel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Woolly Flying Squirrel (Eupetaurus cinereus) is the sole species placed in the genus Eupetaurus.
		However, recent research has confirmed that it is still extant in Pakistani Kashmir.
		It is the longest member of the family Sciuridae and the most massive gliding animal known, but observations confirm that despite its size, it does glide effectively like other flying squirrels.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Woolly_Flying_Squirrel (134 words)

	Asian and Other Flying Squirrels (Flying Squirrel Central) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		"Landscape responses of the Siberian flying squirrel (Pteromys volans) in northern Finland" thesis by Pasi Reunanen, Department of Biology, University of Oulu.
		Drawing: Groove-toothed Flying Squirrel (Aeretes melanopterus) from Mammals of Schichuan Province.
		Factsheet on Flying Lemurs (Philippine Flying Lemur and Malayan Flying Lemur) from the ASEAN Regional Centre for Biodiversity Conservation.
	www.isidore-of-seville.com /flyingsquirrel/3.html (847 words)

	Wildlife of Pakistan: Wildlife Features: Shrouded in Mystery
		ystery surrounds the fate of a woolly flying squirrel, an endangered mammal, which was discovered to be in the custody of a villager in Gich, District Ghizer of Gilgit.
		Farzand Khan, a shepherd, caught the woolly flying squirrel, or flying fox as it is locally known, in the Gich mountains.
		He also mentioned that the woolly flying squirrel could be frequently spotted in the valley until a few years ago.
	www.wildlifeofpakistan.com /Features/shroudedinmystery.htm (693 words)

	Database Exploration (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The Flying squirrel spreads its arms and glides across the sky.
		Flying Squirrels spread the spores of the fungi around in their feces.
		A) Please describe on a piece of paper the hibernation pattern for the Woolly Flying Squirrel.
	eprentice.sdsu.edu /J03CW/major/del_major.html (935 words)

	MSN India - Flying squirrel spotted in Chattisgarh :: News Section
		The forest department officials in Bilaspur said the squirrel was spotted near the Kali Pahar hill in Janjgir district.
		The woolly flying squirrel (scientific name: Eupearus cinereus) is among the rare mammals and found mainly in the Himalayas and hill ranges of Assam and Burma.
		A distinctive elastic flying membrane is attached to its flanks that allow the squirrel to glide.
	autofeed.msn.co.in /pandoraV15/output/098FD73B-E704-40E5-8AD2-31CD2A8390E7.asp (451 words)

	General Information (Flying Squirrel Central) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Flying squirrels in the backyard of Howard L Geere, with photos, audio and video.
		Animals of the forest, from Forest Park, a St. Louis zoo, with a nice section with images of the Southern Flying Squirrel (Glaucomys volans).
		"Flying squirrels are said to use their flat tail for steering, but we could see a few subtle course correction tilts of the whole flattened body.
	www.isidore-of-seville.com /flyingsquirrel/1.html (445 words)

	Deppes Squirrel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The squirrel is diurnal, spending most of its time in trees and sometimes descending to the ground to forage for food.
		In trees, the squirrel is found lower than 10 meters about 30% of the time, between 10 and 20 meters about 40 percent of the time, and higher than 20 meters about 30 percent of the time.
		Because of its dark fur, the squirrel is rarely seen unless its in motion or silhouetted against leaves in the canopy.
	www.avidpets.com /Rodents/deppes-squirrel.htm (747 words)

	HEALING WOUNDS - Deccan Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Squirrels actually do “squirrel away” their food, burying nuts and seeds of all descriptions in times of plenty, only to dig them up when food is scarce.
		Squirrels probably chose to live in the canopy of trees to escape ground-prowling predators.
		Squirrels are among the most common sights in the wooded portions of Indian cities.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/oct102004/ac6.asp (765 words)

	Pakistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		It is also the main habitat of the endangered woolly flying squirrel and flare-horned markhor.
		It is also the main habitat of the endangered woolly flying squirrel.
		The woolly flying squirrel was thought to be extinct due to lack of research and the difficulty associated with navigating its natural habitat.
	wcs.org /Pakistan (718 words)

	Northern Areas Development Gateway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Mr Ali said the people in the native habitat of the squirrel consider it to be “evil” because of its cries as it glides through the air and its blood is used in “fl magic”.
		The squirrel is vegetarian and lives in caves of ‘Salageet’ or pine trees.
		Over a metre long, woolly flying squirrels were long considered extinct till a team led by Peter Zahler and partially funded by WWF-Pakistan found one in 1994.
	www.northernareas.org.pk /ndetail.cfm?ID=69 (210 words)

	Sciuridae (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The Sciurids or squirrels are a large family of rodents.
		It includes tree squirrels, ground squirrels, chipmunks, the marmots (which include woodchucks) and also the Eurasian flying squirrels, but not the African scaly-tailed flying squirrels, which belong to the family Anomaluridae and are not sciurids at all.
		Sciurus (typical tree squirrels), 31 species, Europe, the Middle East, northern Asia, North America, northern South America; the largest genus in the family, including the gray squirrels, fox squirrel and Eurasian red squirrel.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/S/Sciuridae.htm (627 words)

	SCB 2000 Abstract Lookup (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The endangered woolly flying squirrel (Eupetaurus cinereus) is a monotypic genus known from a small region of Northern Pakistan.
		It is the largest squirrel in the world, is so unique that it was once thought to deserve its own family (the Eupetauridae), and was considered extinct for 70 years until its rediscovery in 1994.
		The squirrel rests by day in cliff caves and feeds predominantly on pine needles, a diet unique among mammals.
	www.umt.edu /scb2000/abstracts/abstract_info.asp?id=640 (225 words)

	Woolly Squirrel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Here's something on a woolly squirrel that was rediscovered last March in Pakistan.
		The woolly flying squirrel (Eupetaurus cinereus), thought to be extinct, has been rediscovered in Northern Pakistan.
		The largest squirrel in the world, its rediscovery startled Dr. Charles Woods, an expert on Pakistani mammals, who noted, "We've really scoured the area and never seen it." Source: Yoon, Carol Kaesuk.
	www.ncf.carleton.ca /~bz050/HomePage.ws.html (119 words)

	Homepage of Vladimir Dinets-Pakistan part 2
		The rarest creature of Northern Pakistan is woolly flying squirrel (Eupetaurus cinereus).
		The world's largest squirrel (more than 1 m in length), it spends days in small caves in rocky cliffs, and feeds in the forest at night.
		Snapshots from the first ever video of a woolly flying squirrel (sorry for the quality - the video was taken at night during a snowstorm) and a photo of its tracks.
	dinets.travel.ru /pakistan2.htm (441 words)

	thedailytimes.com - Flying away: Biologists track Smokies squirrel populations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The squirrels don't actually fly, but like their northern and southern flying squirrel counterparts, glide using a loose flap of skin called a patagium that extends down each side of the body.
		Bleckinger reasons the decline to endangered status -- the northern flying squirrel is still abundant -- has to do with the highly specialized habitat needs of the Carolina northern flying squirrels.
		The Carolina northern flying squirrel feeds mainly on truffles, and subsequently redistributes mychorrizal spores throughout the forest.
	www.thedailytimes.com /sited/story/html/163870 (922 words)

	Are They Really Extinct?: Science News Online, March 16, 2002
		Yet the last record of the squirrel came from 1924, when a British colonel photographed one being led around on a rope.
		The world's longest squirrel, 4 feet long from its nose to the tip of its bushy tail, was recently reported in the mountains of Pakistan (above).
		Naturalists illustrated the woolly flying squirrel in the 19th century (below), but Western science lost track of the nocturnal creature after a sighting in 1924.
	www.sciencenews.org /20020316/bob8.asp (2422 words)

	GeoZoo: Squirrels, Chimpmunks, Marmots, Prairie Dogs & Relatives (family Sciuridae) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Arboreal (tree-dwelling) squirrels use their tails for steering when leaping from tree to tree and sometimes as brakes or parachutes when landing.
		The gray squirrel is an eastern species (a state symbol of Kentucky and North Carolina), the red squirrel a western species.
		The Arizona gray squirrel (Sciurus arizonensis), Mexican fox squirrel (Sciurus nayaritensis), and Abert’s squirrel (Sciurus aberti) are native to the U.S. Southwest and Mexico.
	www.geobop.com /mammals/rod/sci/indiex.php (729 words)

	UMass Magazine Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Zahler’s study of the woolly flying squirrel took him to the mountains of North Pakistan (see A Wild Life: more images).
		I narrowed it down to the squirrel and something called the aquatic genet [a distant cousin of the mongoose].
		By that time, I’d heard all sorts of tales about the squirrel (it milks goats in the high pastures, it hangs upside down like a bat), and I ignored this one, toountil two big, bearded guys toting machine guns came out of the rocks and into my camp.
	www.umassmag.com /Spring_2005/A_Wild_Life_884.html (1634 words)

	InfoHub Forums - Ramadan in Pakistan
		One of my goals is to look for woolly flying squirrel, the largest (up to 1 m and 2.5 kg) and rarest squirrel in the world.
		The flying squirrels never returned from the cliff: only two barely visible evening tracks are going from there to the trees.
		I spend some time watching small, agile, shy arrowtail flying squirrels, then pick up the traps, with one red Kashmir vole in them, and walk down, down, down, through the forest, by the sleeping villages, through the dark canyon, all the way to Indus River.
	www.infohub.com /forums/printthread.php?t=2160 (8286 words)

	Mammal Species of the World Literature Citations
		Occurrence of the woolly flying squirrel, Eupetaurus cinereus Thomas (Mammalia: Rodentia: Sciuridae) in North Sikkim.
		Braun, J. Systematics and biogeography of the southern flying squirrel, Glaucomys volans.
		Systematics of flying squirrels, Glaucomys volans (Linnaeus), from Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras.
	nmnhgoph.si.edu /msw/litcit.html (12799 words)

	biology - Sciuridae
		Scuirids are classified into two subfamilies, Sciurinae (tree and ground squirrels), and Petauristinae (flying squirrels):
		Sciurillus, 1 species, the Neotropical Pygmy Squirrel, the Guianas, northeast Brazil, and the Amazon basin of Peru.
		Tamiasciurus (pine squirrels), 2 species (the American Red Squirrel and Douglas Squirrel), northern and western USA and most of Canada and Alaska.
	www.biologydaily.com /biology/Sciuridae (571 words)

	Woolly Flying Squirrel
		Local sightings of the endemic Woolly flying squirrel (Eupetaurus cinereus), once thought to be extinct, provided the impetus for undertaking initial surveys to verify its presence in the Northern Areas of Pakistan.
		WWF-P has established the ecological status of the Woolly flying squirrels and has also identified critical habitat areas in the Sai valley.
		In addition, WWF-P aims to help ensure the survival of the squirrels by facilitating the notification of a Protected Area for them and undertaking local awareness programmes.
	www.wwfpak.org /sc_wollyflyingsquirrel.php (142 words)

	squirrels! squirrels! squirrels!
		The grill is gone now--I should have ordered the Pink Squirrel while I had the chance.
		Squirrels from Hell declared "the lowest of the low-rent bands" by New York’s Village Voice
		With the approach of the millenium, a plague of satanic anti-squirrels has appeared on the internet, belching forth evil and slander like a political candidate, verily even like those who run for public office.
	home.netcom.com /~janeabbt/squirrelly.htm (311 words)

	Species of Special Concern
		Pakistan is host to a number of endemic species and sub species, including six mammals: Indus dolphin, Woolly flying squirrel, Chiltan markhor, Suleiman markhor, Balochistan fl bear, and Punjab urial.
		The valleys provide critical habitat to Musk deer, Snow leopards, Markhors, Himalayan ibex, Woolly flying squirrels, and Brown bears.
		The survival of these species is threatened by loss of habitat stemming from human activities, excessive hunting by locals and outsiders, and weak enforcement of wildlife protection laws.
	www.wwfpak.org /species_special_concern.php (285 words)

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