The flying squirrels ability to glide from one tree to another is unique among rodents. Before gliding, a flying squirrel bobs and rotates the head, perhaps to gauge the route, and then leaps from a ...

Flying squirrels are mainly nocturnal ... and gathered plenty of shots of these very cute animals. But most of the gliding was happening high in the canopy above us. Inaccessible and impossible ...

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.

Gracefully gliding between trees at night in search of a feast of truffles, the San Bernardino flying squirrel is one of the most distinctive nocturnal residents of Southern California's ...