Characteristics Coats are soft, silky pale olive brown. Tail is grey with very dense hair.
Eyes are large and black.
Wide folds of skin extend down each side of body between the wrists and ankles. The fur is almost as soft as a chinchilla's. They are the only nocturnal and gliding North American squirrel. They glide by extending the fold of skin on each side of its body and leaping from branch to branch or ground. They can glide more than 260 feet and move quickly from tree to tree to forage or escape predators.