Question: What’s the difference between the southern flying squirrel and the Carolina northern flying squirrel?
Answer: The southern flying squirrel is smaller than the Carolina northern flying squirrel. It measures between 8.5 and 9.9 inches and weighs 2 to 3 ounces. It has uniform, creamy-white belly fur, shorter hind feet, and a slower, chirping trill. The rarer, endangered Carolina northern flying squirrel is larger, with bicolored, gray-based belly hairs, and is found mainly at high mountain elevations above 4,500 feet.
