Species group · Mammals
WAnimals has 2 species of flying lemur, in the family Cynocephalidae.
Ranges calculated from the profiles that record the figure, not from all 2.
Each one has its own full profile. This group does not replace them: it brings them together.
No species documented in this group is genuinely at risk according to the IUCN, with the data available today.
Recorded in 13 countries. The ones with the most species in the group:
It is not a lemur and it cannot truly fly: it glides on a membrane of skin between its four limbs and its tail, covering as much as 100 metres between trees.
From Sunda Flying Lemur
It can glide more than a hundred metres between trees while losing very little height, the best glide ratio of any mammal.
From Sunda Flying Lemur
Its lower incisors are comb-shaped, with up to twenty prongs per tooth, a structure unique among mammals that it uses for grooming and perhaps for scraping leaves.
From Sunda Flying Lemur
It raises its single young much as a marsupial would, folding its skin membrane into a warm pouch to carry it.
It feeds mainly on young leaves, and occasionally on soft fruit, flowers and shoots.
It lives in multi-layered rainforest on several Philippine islands.