7 Weirdest Flying Animals

Colugos

Sometimes, these tree-dwelling gliders are called flying lemurs, but they are neither true lemurs nor are they flying. Such mammals of the Cynocephalus genus occur in Southeast Asia and are about the size of a house cat. Using their patagium, colugos can fly up to 200 feet between trees, or skin flaps between their front and hind legs extending to their tail and neck. They will gracefully fly through the forest in the air but look like an animated pancake on the ground.

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