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Flying Squirrel **__ Movement __** Flying squirrel don't actully fly, they glide. They glide with a furry membrane that is attached to its arms and legs. It uses it tail and feet to steer. Since they are nocturnal they have sesitive whiskers to help them move in the dark. Nocturnal meen they are awake at night. **__ Desription __** The adult flying squirrl is 12 inches long (includng tail). they can weigh up to 4 to a hlf of pound. The southern flying squirrel 1/3 of the northern flying squirrels height and weight. The male and female look the same. The flying squirrel has big bulging eyes.

 The flying squirrel has one litter a year. A litter is having a group of babies. The gestation period is 40 days. They can have 2-4 and sometimes 1-7. When the baby is born it can not see for 24-30 day. It can't hear when it is born eather for 2-6 days.
 * __Reproduction __**

  The flying squirrel is an omnivore. An omnivore is that it eats both plant and animals. Their favorite food is nut. they also eat bird eggs, baby bird, young mice, flowers, mushrooms, snails, nd berries.
 * __﻿Diet __**

The first is it is nocturnal. It has big eyes and sesitive wiskers to help it see and move in the dark. The second is it has to be a wooded area with the trees spaced out so they can glide. the third is that the trees have to be high so they can glide.
 * __Adaptations __**


 *  Kingdom ||  Animalia  ||
 * Phylum || Chordata ||
 * Class || mammalia ||
 * order || Rodentia ||
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 29px;">Family || <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">sciuidae ||
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Genius || <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Aretes ||
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 29px;">Genius || <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Aeromys ||
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 29px;">Genius || Belomys ||
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 29px;">Genius || Biswamoyopterus ||
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 29px;">Genius || Eoglaucomys ||
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 29px;">Genius || Eupetaurus ||
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 29px;">Genius || Glaucomys ||
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 29px;">Genius || Hylopetes ||
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 29px;">Genius || Neopetes ||
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 29px;">Genius || Lomys ||
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 29px;">Genius || Petaurillus ||
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 29px;">Genius || Petaurista ||
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 29px;">Genius || Petinomys ||
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 29px;">Genius || Pteromys ||
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 29px;">Genius || pteromyscus ||
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 29px;">Genius || Trogopterus ||

General Characteristics of Siuridae All flying squirrels glide. They also are nocturnal. Another they all share together is they use a membrane to glide. The is they have big eyes.

Other types <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|Hairy-footed Flying Squirrel], //Belomys pearsonii// // <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|Red Giant Flying Squirrel], //Petaurista petaurista// // <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|Japanese Dwarf Flying Squirrel], //Pteromys momonga// <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|Woolly Flying Squirrel], //Eupetaurus cinereus//

http://www.brighthub.com/environment/science-environmental/articles/70306.aspx http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_squirrel