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animalids · 3 years

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European red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris cinerea)

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dendroica · 4 years

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Why the future of West Virginia's rare flying squirrel looks bright | MNN

The squirrel — called the Virginia northern flying squirrel or more commonly the West Virginia northern flying squirrel (WVNFS) — was listed as an endangered species in 1985. But restoration efforts have helped the species rebound, and in 2013 the West Virginia northern flying squirrel joined an exclusive group of success stories — species that have been taken off the endangered list.

Since then, restoration work has ramped up. Now a new report assessing the status of the squirrel in its first five years since coming off of the endangered species list indicates there are many reasons to be optimistic.

Survival of the squirrel depends on survival of its habitat — red spruce-northern hardwood forest, which consists of red spruce, fir, beech, yellow birch, sugar or red maple, hemlock and black cherry. It used to be that the iconic, high-elevation red spruce forest blanketed hundreds of thousands of acres of the Central Appalachians. But much of that was destroyed in the late 1800s and early 1900s due to logging and wildfire.

"This habitat is really special," said Barb Douglas, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service senior endangered species biologist. "There's some old-growth left, but a lot of it was cut over at the turn of the 20th century."

"If you go into a really old-growth spruce forest, it's mossy and green and smells good," added Laura Hill, a retired fish and wildlife biologist for the service. "It's surreal. It's quiet, the ground is spongy and soft. It's calming and soothing."

In the decades preceding and following the listing of the West Virginia northern flying squirrel, protection and restoration efforts were successful in bringing the red spruce-northern hardwood forest habitat back to more than 173,000 acres in West Virginia.

And the work didn't stop when the squirrel was taken off the endangered species list in 2013. In the following five years, more than 7,455 acres of West Virginia northern flying squirrel habitat has been created, protected or restored. Additionally, even without formal protections, federal biologists have coordinated with project proponents to keep habitat loss at a negligible level of 285 acres — amounting to 26 times more habitat saved than lost.

As a result, the five-year report finds that the squirrel remains well distributed across all seven core areas and continues to be found at new, expanded and historical sites, with long-term potential for a slowly growing population.

#Northern Flying Squirrel #West Virginia Northern Flying Squirrel #Glaucomys sabrinus fuscus #Glaucomys sabrinus #Glaucomys #Pteromyini #Sciurinae #Sciuridae #Sciuromorpha #Rodentia #Mammalia #mammal #squirrel #flying squirrel #conservation #forest

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that-crazy-scorpio-man · 5 years

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Eastern fox squirrel or Bryant’s fox squirrel (Sciurus niger)

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ibroughtthisonmyselfpixels · 6 years

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i get the feeling i’m not gonna be the only one to send this but ☺️ moira??

The cheating Tiffany mentioned in her interview must have been somebody else. Moira would never cheat on a partner. Never.

Nor would sie cheat in a match, not by sier own choice. (Is it possible to cheat accidentally in tennis? I suppose if you counted an out ball as in by mistake…)

Sier instructor/coach for that stage of the process was an old Banilla named Martin. He’s one of those coaches who’s used to working with disabled clientele of any stripe, and always tries to encourage both the big breakthroughs and the small improvements depending on his client’s usual capacity. On good days, this can be comforting; on bad days, he comes off as incredibly patronizing.

Obviously sier strength is singles, but sie’s played a few doubles games in sier time. Sier most frequent partner in this department is Richard Sciurinae; when the two were younger, his heavy-set nature made mobility difficult, but he’s lost a lot of weight since then (though he’ll never really dip lower than twelve stone, and he’s content with that) and he can keep up with sier quite easily!

He never quite mastered the backhand, though. Fortunately, sie can do both to cover for this, even if it’s at the cost of letting him have any balls. (And that’s why sie is best suited for singles.)

Speaking of, Moira is left-handed. Contrary to popular belief, sie doesn’t think it gives sier any particular advantage.

To bring this back around to Tiffany: sie isn’t all that good at Tetris, or really any video game, but sie’s learning - sie has to master this art as well, sie feels. The best sie can do is a fairly thorough run of point and click games like the Telltale alumini, cus she won’t allow sierself to miss a detail.

Despite myself, ‘she’ still keeps working its way into this post from time to time, like the instance above that I left. Part of me wonders if sie still feels attached to those pronouns despite being nonbinary? That’s something sie may have to address in the long term.

The rainbow hair is actually genetic - sie gets it from sier father (single). That bitch contributed the pink tint.

And with that you might get a decent enough idea of the source of the abandonment-related intrusive thoughts, eh?

#toxoplasmajuice #bountifulberries #ten facts

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erika-mareia · 5 years

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Red Squirrel von Anne-Marie Kalus Über Flickr: I wonder if this little chap is helping Bob. What do you think? www.voteforbob.co.uk

#Rodents #Squirrels #UK Wildlife #Red Squirrel #Eurasian Red Squirrel #Sciuridae #Sciurinae #Sciurini #Sciurus #Sciurus Vulgaris

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cobknobancracker · 7 years

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Various members of the family Sciuridae

Callosciurus prevostii

Tamias sibiricus

Tamiasciurus hudsonicus

Sciurus niger

Spermophilus columbianus

Xerus inauris

Cynomys ludovicianus

Scientific classification

Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata

Clade Synapsida

Class: Mammalia

Order: Rodentia

Suborder: Sciuromorpha

Family: Sciuridae

Fischer de Waldheim, 1817

Subfamilies and tribes

Subfamily Ratufinae

Subfamily Sciurillinae

Subfamily Sciurinae

Subfamily Callosciurinae

Subfamily Xerinae

Tribe Sciurini

Tribe Pteromyini

Tribe Callosciurini

Tribe Funambulini

Tribe Xerini Tribe Protoxerini Tribe Marmotini

and see text

#squirrels #skwerl alert

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serglot · 4 years

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#Golub_SV #ZpLike #ЛюдиЗапорожья Бе́лка обыкнове́нная, или ве́кша] (лат. Sciurus vulgaris, «белка обыкновенная») — грызун из семейства беличьих. Единственный представитель рода белок в фауне Украины. Домен: Эукариоты Царство: Животные Подцарство: Эуметазои Без ранга: Двусторонне-симметричные Без ранга: Вторичноротые Тип: Хордовые Подтип: Позвоночные Инфратип: Челюстноротые Надкласс: Четвероногие Класс: Млекопитающие Подкласс: Звери Инфракласс: Плацентарные Надотряд: Euarchontoglires Грандотряд: Грызунообразные Отряд: Грызуны Подотряд: Белкообразные Семейство: Беличьи Подсемейство: Sciurinae Триба: Sciurini Род: Белки Вид: Обыкновенная белка Белка — типичный обитатель лесов. Поскольку основу её питания составляют семена древесных пород, она предпочитает смешанные хвойно-широколиственные леса, которые обеспечивают наилучшие кормовые условия. Любит также зрелые тёмнохвойные насаждения — кедровники, ельники, пихтачи; за ними следуют лиственничники, заросли кедрового стланика и смешанные сосняки. На севере, где растёт в основном сосновое и лиственничное редколесья, плотность её поголовья невысока. В Крыму и на Кавказе освоила культурные ландшафты: сады и виноградники. Образ жизни преимущественно древесный. Белка — живой, подвижный зверёк. Она легко совершает прыжки с дерева на дерево (3—4 м по прямой и 10—15 м по нисходящей кривой), подруливая хвостом. В бесснежный период, а также во время гона значительное время проводит на земле, где перемещается скачками длиной до 1 м. В зимний период перемещается в основном «верхами». При опасности скрывается на деревьях, обычно затаиваясь в кроне. Активна в утренние и вечерние часы, от 60 % до 80 % этого времени проводя в поисках пищи. (at Парк Гагарина) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5z5vKRp1XxGf6b_dX-1c8Kcz5wCL97NZBudDU0/?igshid=rsb0mzwmu8me

#golub_sv #zplike #людизапорожья

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eyeofhorus237 · 6 years

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This is a list of the 60 mammal species recorded in Ireland. A new Red List of Irish terrestrial mammals was published in 2009 and all 26 terrestrial species native to Ireland, or naturalised in Ireland before 1500, were assessed. Of these, one was found to be regionally extinct (grey wolf Canis lupus), one achieved a threat status of Vulnerable (black rat Rattus rattus), three were found to be Near Threatened (Leisler's bat Nyctalus leisleri), otter (Lutra lutra) and red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris), one was data deficient (Brandt's bat Myotis brandtii) and the remaining 20 were of least concern.[1]

The following tag are used to highlight each species' conservation status as assessed by the IUCN:

Subclass: Theria

Infraclass: Eutheria

Order: Diprotodontia

Though most marsupials make up a great part of the fauna in the Australian region, the red-necked wallaby has been introduced and a population is currently breeding on the island of Lambay.[2]

Family: Macropodidae (kangaroos, wallabies, and kin

Genus: Macropus

Red-necked wallaby Macropus rufogriseus EN introduced

Order: Rodentia (rodents)

Red squirrel

Rodents make up the largest order of mammals, with over 40 percent of mammalian species. They have two incisors in the upper and lower jaw which grow continually and must be keep short by gnawing. Most rodents are small though the capybara can weigh up to 45 kg (100 lb).

Suborder: Sciurognathi

Family: Sciuridae (squirrels)

Family: Cricetidae

Family: Muridae (mice, rats, etc.)

Family: Gliridae

Subfamily: Sciurinae

Genus: Sciurus

Red squirrel Sciurus vulgaris NT

Eastern grey squirrel Sciurus carolinensis LC introduced

Subfamily: Arvicolinae

Genus: Myodes

Bank vole Myodes glareolus LC introduced

Subfamily: Murinae

Genus: Mus

Genus: Apodemus

Genus: Rattus

House mouse Mus musculus LC

Wood mouse Apodemus sylvaticus LC

Brown rat Rattus norvegicus LC introduced

Black rat Rattus rattus VU introduced

Subfamily: Leithiinae

Genus: Muscardinus

Hazel dormouse Muscardinus avellanarius LC introduced[3]

Order: Lagomorpha (lagomorphs)

European rabbit

The lagomorphs comprise two families, Leporidae (hares and rabbits), and Ochotonidae (pikas). Though they can resemble rodents, and were classified as a superfamily in that order until the early 20th century, they have since been considered a separate order. They differ from rodents in a number of physical characteristics, such as having four incisors in the upper jaw rather than two.

Family: Leporidae (rabbits, hares)

Genus: Oryctolagus

Genus: Lepus

European rabbit Oryctolagus cuniculus LC introduced

Mountain hare Lepus timidus LC

European hare Lepus europaeus LC introduced

Order: Erinaceomorpha (hedgehogs and gymnures

West European hedgehog

The order Erinaceomorpha contains a single family, Erinaceidae, which comprise the hedgehogs and gymnures. The hedgehogs are easily recognised by their spines while gymnures look more like large rats.

Family: Erinaceidae (hedgehogs)

Subfamily: Erinaceinae

Genus: Erinaceus

West European hedgehog Erinaceus europaeus LC

Order: Soricomorpha (shrews, moles, and solenodons)

Eurasian pygmy shrew

The "shrew-forms" are insectivorous mammals. The shrews and solenodons closely resemble mice while the moles are stout-bodied burrowers.

Family: Soricidae (shrews)

Subfamily: Soricinae

Genus: Sorex

Genus: Crocidura

Eurasian pygmy shrew Sorex minutus LC introduced[4]

Greater white-toothed shrew Crocidura russula LC introduced[5]

Order: Chiroptera (bats)

Daubenton's bat

Brown long-eared bat

The bats' most distinguishing feature is that their forelimbs are developed as wings, making them the only mammals in the world naturally capable of flight. Bat species account for about 20% of all mammals.

Family: Vespertilionidae

Family: Rhinolophidae

Subfamily: Myotinae

Subfamily: Vespertilioninae

Genus: Myotis

Daubenton's bat Myotis daubentonii LC

Whiskered bat Myotis mystacinus LC

Brandt's bat Myotis brandti DD

Natterer's bat Myotis nattereri LC

Genus: Nyctalus

Genus: Pipistrellus

Genus: Plecotus

Leisler's bat Nyctalus leisleri NT

Common pipistrelle Pipistrellus pipistrellus LC

Soprano pipistrelle Pipistrellus pygmaeus LC

Nathusius pipistrelle Pipistrellus nathusii LC

Brown long-eared bat Plecotus auritus LC

Subfamily: Rhinolophinae

Genus: Rhinolophus

Lesser horseshoe bat Rhinolophus hipposideros LC

Order: Cetacea (whales)

The order Cetacea includes whales, dolphins, and porpoises. They are the mammals most fully adapted to aquatic life with a spindle-shaped nearly hairless body, protected by a thick layer of blubber, and forelimbs and tail modified to provide propulsion underwater.

Suborder: Mysticeti

Suborder: Odontoceti

Family: Balaenidae (right whales)

Family: Eschrichtiidae (gray whales)

Family: Balaenopteridae (rorqual)

Family: Megapterinae

Genus: Balaena

Genus: Eubalaena

Bowhead whale Balaena mysticetus EN vagrant[6]

North Atlantic right whale Eubalaena glacialis CR

Genus: Eschrichtius

Gray whale Eschrichtius robustus EX

Subfamily: Balaenopterinae

Genus: Balaenoptera

Common minke whale Balaenoptera acutorostrata LC

Sei whale Balaenoptera borealis EN

Fin whale Balaenoptera physalus NT

Blue whale Balaenoptera musculus EN [7]

Genus: Megaptera

Humpback whale Megaptera novaeangliae LC

Superfamily: Platanistoidea

Family: Monodontidae (narwhals)

Family: Phocoenidae (porpoises)

Family: Physeteridae (sperm whales)

Family: Kogiidae

Family: Ziphidae (beaked whales)

Subfamily: Hyperoodontinae

Family: Delphinidae (marine dolphins)

Genus: Delphinapterus

Beluga Delphinapterus leucas LC vagrant

Genus: Phocoena

Harbour porpoise Phocoena phocoena VU

Genus: Physeter

Sperm whale Physeter macrocephalus VU

Genus: Kogia

Pygmy sperm whale Kogia breviceps DD

Genus: Ziphius

Cuvier's beaked whale Ziphius cavirostris DD

Genus: Hyperoodon

Genus: Mesoplodon

Northern bottlenose whale Hyperoodon ampullatus DD

Sowerby's beaked whale Mesoplodon bidens DD

Gervais' beaked whale Mesoplodon europaeus DD

True's beaked whale Mesoplodon mirus DD

Genus: Delphinus

Genus: Tursiops

Genus: Stenella

Genus: Lagenorhynchus

Genus: Grampus

Genus: Globicephala

Genus: Pseudorca

Genus: Orcinus

Short-beaked common dolphin Delphinus delphis DD

Common bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus DD

Striped dolphin Stenella coeruleoalba DD

Atlantic white-sided dolphin Lagenorhynchus acutus LC

White-beaked dolphin Lagenorhynchus albirostris LC

Risso's dolphin Grampus griseus DD

Long-finned pilot whale Globicephala melas DD

False killer whale Pseudorca crassidens DD

Orca Orcinus orca DD