Yes, Squirrels can fly in the jungles of Ranikhet

&NewLine;<p>Want to see flying squirrels&quest; If&NewLine;yes then head towards Ranikhet as it is the best place to beat the heat&period; Here&NewLine;you can get relief from heat and cal also enjoys the view of flying squirrels&period;&NewLine;The destination is nestled amid the cedar as well as oak forests and offers&NewLine;mesmerizing views of natural beauty along with flying squirrels&period; This is one of&NewLine;the fantastic and interesting news for nature&comma; wildlife as well as environment&NewLine;lovers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>After Devalsari range&comma; i&period;e&period;&comma; Tehri&NewLine;in Uttrakhand&comma; now you can see squirrels flying in the jungles of Ranikhet too&period;&NewLine;As per environmental experts&comma; this is a promising sign of biodiversity and&NewLine;owing to this&semi; the forest department is going to plan conservation by marking&NewLine;the site of this exclusive species&period; The preparations are also planned out to&NewLine;know the range of species of flying squirrels in mountain placers&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>As per experts Flying squirrels&NewLine;also called as Gilihari is not exactly extinct&comma; however the threshold of&NewLine;extinction&period;&nbsp&semi; He also described it as the&NewLine;extremely enjoyable in relation to biodiversity&period; As per DFO Kuber Singh&comma; there&NewLine;are in all twelve species of squirrels flying all over India&comma; and this has to&NewLine;be confirmed yet that how many of these species are in Ranikhet as well as in&NewLine;Kumaon&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Earlier&comma; Kamal Goswami&comma; a nature&NewLine;photographer&comma; captured this flying squirrel and tried to capture it on camera&period;&NewLine;However&comma; the speed of the creature was so fast that it could not be captured&NewLine;clearly&period; After the struggle he captured it and finally Padmashri Anup Sah&comma; a&NewLine;famous photographer and also member of State Wild Life Advisory Committee&NewLine;identified it and confirmed that it is a flying squirrel&comma; he also claimed its&NewLine;presence in the forest of Nanital&period; He also said the brown color flying&NewLine;squirrels are very common&comma; but grey color is rare&comma; and it’s nice to find them&NewLine;in the forest of Nanital&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h4 class&equals;"wp-block-heading"><strong>More about flying squirrels<&sol;strong><&sol;h4>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Flying squirrels don’t fly but&NewLine;actually glide and make great leaping which is very much exhilarating&period; In the&NewLine;body of these flying squirrels&comma; there is a flexible skin from left arm to the&NewLine;last two feet and which spreads the same as an umbrella when they jump from a&NewLine;high position&period; The interesting thing is that with the support of this umbrella&comma;&NewLine;skin flying squirrels can take a long time to stop themselves in the air and&NewLine;inspects a secure place&period; Some facts about flying squirrels are listed below&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<ul class&equals;"wp-block-list"><li>The main reason&NewLine;of cuteness of flying squirrels is there big round eyes&period; These eyes help them&NewLine;to collect more light for better night vision&period;<&sol;li><li>Flying squirrels&NewLine;are very active at night&comma; and some of them also glow at night&period; <&sol;li><li>The size of&NewLine;flying squirrels varies from a few inches to few feet&period; <&sol;li><&sol;ul>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>As mentioned above&comma; flying squirrels do not fly but can still cover remarkable distances in the air&period; The glides are recorded by researchers which are up to 295 feet and that means an 11-inch northern flying squirrel can glide about the full length of a soccer field&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;

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