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• Fowics were like flying squirrels back on Earth, except that their forelimb wings were more fully adapted for flying rather than gliding, and their heads, ears and snouts had a distinctly feline appearance. The Orphaned Worlds, 1st Draft, 1st Excerpt « INTERSTELLAR TACTICS
• Abert's and northern flying squirrels, as well as martens and bushy-tailed wood rats, are known to utilize witches'-brooms for nesting or protection.
• Beneath limestone mountains spiralled with bamboo forests and rice plantations, villagers sell sesame and chillies, air-dried flying squirrel and cassava. Times, Sunday Times
• The colugo, or so-called ‘flying lemur’, of the south-east Asian forests resembles the flying squirrels and flying phalangers, except that the tail, as well as the arms and legs, is included in the support structure of the flight membrane. THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
• It's really not human — perhaps it's sciurine, for the flying squirrel landed it emphatically. Times, Sunday Times
• The Siberian flying squirrel is a nocturnal arboreal rodent, which nests in tree cavities, twig dreys, and nest-boxes.
• Flying squirrels have a furred membrane extending between the wrist and ankle that allows them to glide between trees.
• Then an old ‘possum would sing out, or a black-furred flying squirrel — pongos, the blacks call ’em — would come sailing down from the top of an ironbark tree, with all his stern sails spread, as the sailors say, and into the branches of another, looking as big as an eagle-hawk. Robbery Under Arms
• Do southern flying squirrels frequently depredate songbird nests in other areas?
• The Siberian flying squirrel is a nocturnal arboreal rodent, which nests in tree cavities, twig dreys, and nest-boxes.