#pteromys

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Momonga or Japanese Dwarf Flying Squirrel (Pteromys momonga), family Sciuridae, Hokkaido, Japan

photograph by 半田 菜摘 (@handa.natsumi)

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A Siberian flying squirrel (Pteromys volans) in the boreal forest, North Mongolia

by Purevsuren Tsolmonjav

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Japanese Dwarf Flying Squirrel

[thepastisalreadywritten]

Here's Johnny! 🐿️

The Siberian flying squirrel's habitat ranges from Finland and Estonia all the way to Japan and the Korean peninsula.

They prefer to nest in the holes woodpeckers make in trees.

#EarthCapture by Junsei via Instagram

[1mysteriousstranger]

Siberian Flying Squirrel (Pteromys volans)

[internetdruid]

🥚 hullo, may I have an animal from the mainland of Japan? I’m half Japanese and would love to rep that.

Ezo flying squirrel!

 (Pteromys volans orii)

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FI 2008 €0.10 Archipelago FI 2021 Siberian flying squirrel, Pteromys volans

[antiqueanimals]

Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia, vol. 11, Mammals II. 1972.

1.) Fraser's scaly-tailed squirrel (Anomalurus fraseri)

2.) Lang's small flying squirrel (Idiurus langi)

3.) Southern flying squirrel (Glaucomys volans)

4.) Siberian flying squirrel (Pteromys volans)

5.) Formosan giant flying squirrel (Petaurista grandis)

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Japanese dwarf flying squirrels (Pteromys momonga). Photos: Toshikazu Hashimoto

[ecologyalike]

My majestic friends

In summer 1998 the Finnish Forest Administration hired me to support an inventory determining the potential Natura 2000 areas under the EU Habitats Directive. I was excited about the opportunity and eager to explore the uninhabited forests of Eastern Finland! My task was to identify biodiversity rich sites and gather information that would contribute to a selection of areas for conservation.

I got a light blue Toyota car and maps to navigate the logging roads in Lieksa and Ilomantsi, two remote municipalities in the Eastern Finland. During the days I was alone, and, in the evenings, I met with my fellow workers in the lodging provided to us in camping sites and forester huts.

It was a summer filled with mosquitoes in wet gullies and intense sun in the apocalyptic sites of “final felling”.[1] I also met some bears, and while they must have seen me, I only saw their steaming excrement, coloured blue from the berries (Vaccinium myrtillus), or hastily plunged yellow chantarelle stems (Cantharellus cibarius).

When I close my eyes to look back to the memories of summer 1998, I can see two sites in front of my eyes.

First is a lush grove with northern wolf's-bane (Aconitum lycoctonum) and tall ostrich ferns (Matteuccia struthioptera) and translucent green leaf mosses. It was a tiny green paradise, and I can still hear the water flowing in the creek beneath my feet.

Second is a steep hill with intimate quality of majestic beauty, a few pine trees clearly over 200 years old mingled with younger birch, aspen and rowan. I remember ticking the box of cultural significance and shading the site in the inventory map as a “high conservation value”, frantically looking for something in the list of threated species. To my disappointment, despite the variety of shrubs, flowering plants, and interesting fungus of rotting tree trunks on forest floor, nothing was on my list.

I was a young botany student and my inventory list included mainly plants, but I also looked for signs of small mammals, such as droppings of Siberian flying squirrel (Pteromys volans) that would guarantee the further investigation of the area. Unfortunately, bear was not on my list of key inventory species, I would have loved to tick that box.

A few weeks after finishing the work I got a phone call from my supervisor; she was excited to tell me all the areas that had been accepted to the list. There were several from my list that had made it to the second stage!

The lush green grove was among them, situated in the middle of the otherwise less impressive commercial forest estate, but it was now among those, which could possibly be protected within Natura 2000 new conservation sites. I smiled, and then something darker surfaced from beneath of my belly. With a slightly shaky voice, I asked her: “What about the site shaded with a high conservation value, the beautiful southern slope with old pine trees?” 

I could hear her scuffling through her papers, trying to locate the site I was talking about. After a pause, she answered, with a slight hesitation in her voice: “No, that site is not here, unfortunately, it did not make it to the list for further investigation.” After this she again congratulated me on the good notes, and how we had done extremely well, with so many new sites proposed. There was a click, the call had ended.

Photo by Joel & Jasmin Førestbird on Unsplash  

Who holds the history when the one who has seen it is gone?

Now after 30 years when I close my eyes, I can still smell the pine resin, it is like encountering an old friend after a long time. In my imagination these same pine trees shaded children in the forest herding the cows, in the young independent country of Finland at the start of the century, or a soldier during the second world war stopped to admire the view opening from the southern slope during his advance. Perhaps, a few centuries earlier, the ancestors of these trees provided encouragement for the hunter searching for an elk to serve as dinner to her clan. And then, when I open my eyes, I remember that these pine trees, my majestic friends, are no more there.

These trees were “too old”, not a prime quality timber for construction, clearly over the official recommended final felling time. However, if they did not make to the Natura 2000 list, I don’t think there was anything to stopping their commercial use.

“The fibres of conifers, such as pine and spruce, are long and spaced apart. Because the long fibres give the pulp strength, softwood pulp is often used for products that require durability. Coniferous wood also increases the absorbency of the product, making it suitable for applications such as paper towels, baby nappies and other hygiene products.[2]”

Maybe these pines ended up as pulp and paper for packaging the goods we buy at the supermarket, or as nappies, or as toilet paper.

We humans categorise and classify, put some species in the list of threatened, vulnerable and endangered, making them scarce and more “valuable”, and some on the common list of trivial and prevailing, and thus exploitable. We make decisions to conserve or utilise based on the arbitrary boundaries of modernity on what is valuable and what is not. Is that the best we can make?

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References

1] Up to very recently Finnish forest management guidelines suggested clear-cutting/final felling of trees at the end of the “cultivation” period, which included ploughing the ground, which turn the forest floor into treacherous swales and heaps.

2] https://www.upmpulp.com/fi/uutiset-ja-materiaalit/blogit-ja-tarinat/stories/sellu-yllattaa-monipuolisuudellaan/

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anyway Cephalopachus bancanus, Spea bombifrons, Leopardus wiedii; Diodon nicthemerus, Enallagma cyathigerum, Caprimulgus europaeus (?); Chimaera monstrosa, Nymphargus cochranae, Pteromys momonga; Eonycteris spelaea, Ensatina eschscholtzii, Hexanchus griseus; Tenodera sp. (?), Siderea thysoidea, Nycticebus javanicus; Xenophthalmichthys danae, Eulemur flavifrons, Rossia pacifica; Imantodes cenchoa, Litocranius walleri, Salticus scenicus; Correlophus ciliatus, Gigantocypris sp., Tragulus kanchil; Odontodactylus scyllarus, Pusa sibirica, Nyctibius griseus.

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Ezo flying squirrel (Pteromys volans orii)

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Ma Poké-Équipe

Évoli (Snow), le Pokémon Évolutif

Type : Normal

Sexe : Femelle

Talents : Fuite • Adaptabilité • Anticipation (Talent caché)

Région : Kalos

Capacités Z : Neuf pour Un • Turbo-Charge Bulldozer

Attaques : Charge, Jet de Sable, Regard Touchant, Vive-Attaque, Morsure,Météores, Bélier, Damoclès, Dernier Recours, Double Pied, Photocopie.

Émolga (Momo), le Pokemon Pteromys

Types : Électrik • Vol

Sexe : Femelle

Talents : Statik • Motorisé (Talent Caché)

Région : Unys

Capacités Z : Turbo-Charge Bulldozer • Fulguro-Lance Gigavolt • Piqué Supersonique

Attaques : Frotte-Frimousse, Reflet, Vive-Attaque, Éclair, Acrobatie, Étincelle, Change Éclair, Mur Lumière, Coup d'Jus, Hâte.

Azumarill (Azuria), le Pokémon Aqualapin

Types : Eau • Fée

Sexe : Femelle

Talents : Isograisse • Coloforce • Herbivore (Talent Caché)

Région : Unys

Capacités Z : Super Tourbillon Abyssal • Impact Choupinouva

Attaques : Charge, Pistolet à O, Tourniquet, Écume, Boul'Armure, Roulade, Bulle d'O, Coup d'Main, Hydroqueue, Câlinerie, Anneau Hydro, Danse Pluie, Damoclès, Surpuissance, Hydrocanon, Charme, Souplesse,Rebond.

Mistrigrix (Misty), le Pokémon SelfContrôle

Type : Psy

Talents : Regard Vif • Infiltration • Battant (Talent Caché)

Région : Kalos

Capacité Z : Psycho-Pulvérisation

Attaques : Feuille Magik, Griffe, Groz'Yeux, Implore, Choc Mental, Mur Lumière, Rafale Psy, Bluff, Voix Enjôleuse, Rayon Chargé, Ball'Ombre, Extrasenseur, Psyko, Imitation, Rayon Signal, Coup Bas, Prescience, Force Ajoutée, Distorsion.

Charmilly (Kurīmi), le Pokémon Crème

Type : Fée

Sexe : Mâle

Talents : Gluco-Voile • Aroma-Voile (Talent Caché)

Région : Galar

Capacités Z : Impact Choupinouva • Turbo-Charge Bulldozer

Attaques : Brule Capiteuse, Charge, Doux Baiser, Doux Parfum, Nappage, Vaimpibaiser, Aromathérapie, Attraction, Éclat Magique, Dernier Recours, Champ Brumeux, Explo-Brume.

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These Tiny Squirrels That Look Like Pokémon Can Only Be Found On Remote Japanese Islands

These Tiny Squirrels That Look Like Pokémon Can Only Be Found On Remote Japanese Islands https://theheartysoul.com/japanese-dwarf-flying-tiny-squirrels/ Squirrels are the cutest, and even more so when they look like one of our favorite animé characters – Pokémon! The Japanese dwarf flying squirrel, Pteromys momonga, is one of the cutest species of tiny squirrels in the world, native to Japan, and is endemic to the remote Islands of Honshu and Kyushu [1]. They […] The post These Tiny Squirrels That Look Like Pokémon Can Only Be Found On Remote Japanese Islands appeared first on The Hearty Soul. via The Hearty Soul https://theheartysoul.com/ March 23, 2024 at 09:03AM

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This cutie is on the cover of BBc wildlife Dec, I never knew of them! SQUEEE XOXOXO ! the man who spent many months to find and photog them :) said theyre real pokemon