The Chinese Flying Squirrel, also known as spawning child, flying squirrel, and cold bird. Is a mammal, rodents, flying squirrels. Herbivorous medicinal animals whose excrement is the traditional Chinese medicine Wulingzhi. Commonly known as flying squirrel. The life span of Chinese flying squirrel is generally 7-10 years, and the breeding life is about 7-8 years. Do you know the morphological characteristics of the Chinese flying squirrel?

Chinese flying squirrel

Chinese flying squirrel resembles squirrel, with large eye circles, well-developed auricles, pubescent, gray-brown or brown-grey, with broad and hairy between fore and hind limbs flying membranes, thereby gliding down a tree or rock wall.

The body length of the small flying squirrel is more than 13 cm, and the body length of the large flying squirrel is more than 50 cm; the coat color of most species is relatively bright; the teeth are mostly 22. The compound-toothed flying squirrel is 20-30 cm long; the head is round and the snout is short, and the eyes are large and round; the top of the head and cheeks are gray, the base of the ear has slender black tufts, and the outer edge of the ear is orange; the back of the body, the back of the ear and the feet The back is gray-yellow, the base of the hair is dark gray, the abdomen is gray-yellow, and the edge of the fly membrane is brown-red; There are mountain forests with pines and cypresses, living in steep walls or stone caves, with nests like bird's nests, with twigs, grass leaves and so on.