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Petaurista sybilla

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The orange flying squirrel lives in subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forests or dark coniferous forests at medium and high altitudes. Its food mainly consists of fruits, seeds, and young branches and leaves of plants.

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In China, it is distributed in Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Chongqing and Hubei.
The body size is similar to that of the spotted flying squirrel, with brown-black upper eye sockets, brown (orange) spots behind the ears, brown-yellow as the main color of the head, neck and back of the body, without large white spots in the hair tufts, slightly lighter in the waist and buttocks, orange-brown in the wing membrane, femur, front and back limbs and dorsal dorsum of the feet, light brown-yellow in the abdomen, and the tail is similar in color to the back.