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Afghan flying squirrel

species of mammal

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 12, 2022
Entity authorityQ3533065 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Afghan flying squirrel (Eoglaucomys fimbriatus baberi) is a subspecies of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is endemic to Afghanistan.

Biology

The Afghan flying squirrel is not considered to be threatened to become an endangered species because it is widely distributed, it has a large population, and the population is not declining fast enough. The only threats that affect the Afghan flying squirrel are selective logging, modernization, hunting for the fur trade. It has a generation time of approximately 4 to 5 years, and it has up to two litters annually. It usually has 2 to 4 young.

Location

The Afghan flying squirrel is known to be found in montane coniferous forests.

The Afghan flying squirrel is native to the following countries:

Afghanistan

India

Pakistan

References

Notes

Baillie, J. 1996. Hylopetes baberi. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

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This entry incorporates text from “Afghan flying squirrel” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.