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Project Noah is a tool to explore and document wildlife and a platform to harness the power of citizen scientists everywhere.
Petaurista alborufus
The largest species of giant squirrel over 1m (3') from head to tail with piercing blue eyes! Check out the short video clip of it gliding through the forest. This species inhabits dense montane forest, limestone cliffs and conifer forests. They are nocturnal and nest in high tree hollows.
This species is found in China in the provinces of Shaanxi, Hunan (CSIS 2008), Guangxi, Sichuan, Gansu, Hubei, Guizhou, and Yunnan, and including Taiwan (Smith and Xie 2008). It occupies elevations ranging from 800-3,500 m asl, most often from 2,000-3,000 m. This species inhabits dense montane forest, limestone cliffs and conifer forests. They are nocturnal and nest in high tree hollows.
I spotted this is Foping Reserve. The trackers knew were to find them and we hiked to a valley with tall trees that they nested in. They are a nocturnal species and in order to see them during the day, the trackers would make a bit of noise on the tree to try and get the squirrel to come out and investigate. It worked! I was lucky enough to see 3 of them and even got to see them fly. I've added my footage of them flying. They were very hard to film as I never knew when the would fly. I was lucky enough to film them flying twice during midflight. I've combined my 3 videos into one with the first one played in slow motion as well to really get a good look at how they glide.
Lat: 33.52, Long: 107.93
Spotted on Nov 26, 2011
Submitted on Mar 24, 2012
206 Comments (1–25)
fantastic spotting! the video is superb
Thanks lucasm and isaa.
I love the colors.
Are nice!!!
Thanks everyone!
wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
it flew like a plane
I love it
it is fantastic
It´s lovely.
Thanks long-island, patty and injica.
Wow what a cool squirrel! It is very cute. It is so small. We think that it is a lovely animal. We think that your video was great. The squirrel flew like an eagle. I never saw a flying squirrel. Those colors are beautiful. You are a great photographer and video director. We all like this animal. We are Form III Sky Blue class.
Great, too cute :)
Our class, Form III blue, loves it! Great video! It is so cute. We had never seen a squirrel flying before. It is a beautiful animal.
love the video
i wish i could do that
that s so cute.
Thanks Mona.
Very cute... Very nice photograph...
Thanks shay!
wow
Thank you Jared. That's too bad about the photos Debbie, but yeah, it is just cool to watch things sometimes as photos aren't always possible. I have seen a couple other flying squirrels but this was the first I could photograph.
unfortunately no photos as the ones I saw at Kanha jungle lodge came out after dark in quite thick coverage and went high up in the tree to glide right over my head but the experience was brilliant in itself and sometimes its nice just to watch things as much as I might have liked a photo.
This is freakin awesome, great shot!
Thanks Debbie! Did you get any pics of them in your travels?
Brilliant shots! I love flying squirrels!