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**Domain** Eukarya Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Sciuridae Subfamily: Sciurinae
 * Identification/General description:** The southern flying squirrel is about the size of a chipmunk, and the northern flying squirrel is slightly larger. Both are small, grayish mammals with eyes that are disproportionately large.**Length:** The southern sup-species is about nine inches long, while the northern sub-species measures almost 9-14 inches, including the wide flattened tail which is nearly half as long as the flying squirrel.


 * Weight:** The southern and northern flying squirrels weigh two and three ounces, respectively.

====**Reproduction:** Females of both species mate in early spring, and about five weeks later, give birth to three to five tiny, blind young. Southern flying squirrels may have two litters in summer, but this rarely occurs in northern flying squirrel females.====
 * Color:** The upper parts are gray-brown, whereas all the lower parts including the tail are white.

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====**Food:** Flying squirrels eat a variety of fruits and nuts, insects, small birds, and meat scraps. Flying squirrels are frequent visitors at bird feeders, and some people have lights at the feeders so they can watch the flying squirrel's antics at night.====

**Predators:** Small hawks and owls, foxes, weasels, and in northern Minnesota, marten.
====**Habitat and range**: Southern flying squirrels are found mainly in southern Minnesota hardwood forests, while the northern sub-species occurs in northern Minnesota forests. Nearly all flying squirrels nest in cavities in older trees, such as woodpecker holes.==== ====**Population and management:** Flying squirrels, though unprotected in Minnesota, have no meat or fur value and thus are not hunted or trapped. Some management occurs when old trees or "snags" with cavities are left in logging operations.====

**lifespan**: is about 5 to 6 years

 * This is what there tracks look like**:

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