Colugos

Colugos

Colugos (Cynocephalidae), otherwise called flying lemurs, are arboreal, skimming warm blooded creatures that occupy the woods of Southeast Asia. There are two living types of colugos. Colugos are talented lightweight flyers that depend on folds of skin that extend between their legs to coast starting with one branch then onto the next. Regardless of one of their normal names being "flying lemur", colugos are not nearly identified with lemurs.Colugos develop to lengths of somewhere around 14 and 16 inches and weights of somewhere around 2 and 4 pounds.

Colugos have long and thin appendages, all of which are of about equivalent length (front appendages are not shorter or more than back appendages). Colugos have a little head, huge front-confronting eyes and little round ears. Their visual perception is great.

The fold of skin that reaches out from their appendages to their body is appropriate for skimming. Of all well evolved creatures that coast in a comparative way, colugos are the most gifted. The floating layer is additionally know as a patagium. It stretches out from the shoulder bones to the front paw and from the tip of the front paw to the back paw. It additionally runs between the back paws and the tail. There is likewise webbing film between the fingers and toes. In spite of their aptitudes as lightweight flyers, colugos are bad at climbing trees.

Colugos occupy tropical rainforests all through Southeast Asia. They are nighttime warm blooded animals that are normally very modest and singular. Very little is thought about their conduct. They feast upon leaves, shoots, sap, products of the soil and are thought to be herbivores.

Their digestive tract is long, an adjustment that empowers them to concentrate supplements from leaves and other plant material which is frequently hard to process.

Colugos are undermined by environment demolition. Their marsh timberland territories are being felled and chasing additionally has likewise adversely affected their populaces.

Cologus have one of a kind incisor teeth, they have a brush like composition and shape and every tooth has various notches in it. The explanation behind this exceptional tooth structure is not yet caught on.

Colugos are placental vertebrates however they are likewise like marsupials in a few ways. The youthful are conceived after a 60-day incubation period and are modest and not yet very much created. Amid the initial six months of their life they stick to their mom's stomach for security as they develop. The mother twists her tail to hold the youthful colugo as she skims.

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Culogos incorporate the accompanying gatherings:

Sunda flying lemur (Galeopterus variegatus) - the Sunda flying lemur possesses the tropical backwoods in Southeast Asia including Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. Sunda flying lemurs are nighttime arboreal well evolved creatures that eat plant material including shoots, natural product, blooms and clears out. There are four living subspecies of Sunda flying lemurs and are recognized by their reach (one lives in Java, another in Sumatra, one in Borneo and another in Malaysia and Terrain Southeast Asia).

Philippine flying lemur (Cynocephalus volans).