The average life span of the Yunnan flying squirrel can reach 13 years. Yunnan flying squirrels are similar in habits to bats. Yunnan flying squirrels usually hide in rock caves, rock crevices or tree holes on cliffs to rest during the day. Yunnan flying squirrels prefer to be quiet and live in solitary camps. At night, it goes out to hunt for food, and it is more active in the early morning and evening. It is agile and good at climbing and gliding.

Yunnan flying squirrel is known as a thousand miles for food habit. No matter how large the range of activities is, they are fixed in one place to excrete feces. Generally, choose a larger cave near the cave where it lives, and its feces will accumulate all year round without being moldy. The dry feces of the flying squirrel in Yunnan is a famous Chinese herbal medicine Wulingzhi.