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Originally Posted by infinite monkey

Well apparently we have some southern flying squirrels. Hmm.

Fiddle dee dee, I do declare I've never seen one.

Well, they are nocturnal.

I saw a bunch at a nature center program. this building is in the woods, and the ranger there would put nuts out each evening on the railing of the nature center. Then once a month, there would be a flying squirrel program and the visitors would sit quietly and wait with flashlights. As it got dark, they would come gliding down from the trees, grab a nut and scamper off up a tree. I went to one of these things.

The most interesting fact I learned was that when they glide from one treee to another, upon landing, they immediately run around to the other side of the tree trunk. That's because it's easy for owls to see them in flight, so if an owl takes off after one, they want to scamper around to the other side of the tree to get away from the owl. It's sort of like when you feel like somebody is following you to your door in the night time as you fumble for your key and you quickly get in and slam the door and lock it, but there is nobody there.

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Just remembered I had this pic. Trail-camera pic, not mine.

The flying squirrel shown here is prolly shitting kittens...the raccoon is one of the flying squirrel's top predators!

Deer-leggy goodness in the background.