Flying Squirrels

It might very naturally be supposed that the habits of an animal as curious and remarkable as the flying squirrel would have received more attention. Yet in spite of its abundance and familiarity, there is less known about its ways and manner of getting a living than about those of almost any of our wild animals.

From what little I have seen, they are creatures of singularly inconsistent habits. They can dwell alone in hollow stumps close to the ground, high up in some deserted crow's nest, or gather in communities of twenty or thirty in the hollow trunk of a decaying sapling only a few inches in diameter and scarcely large enough to fit them. Farther south, we frequently hear of their taking up their quarters in the walls of a farmhouse, as mice do.