Flying squirrels use a mortise-tenon structure to fix nuts on understory twigs

Squirrels of temperate zones commonly store nuts or seeds under leaf litter, in hollow logs, or even in holes in the ground; however, in the humid rainforests of Jianfengling in Hainan, South China, we show that some flying squirrels cache elliptical or oblate nuts by hanging them securely in vegeta...

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Published in:	eLife
Main Authors:	Han Xu, Lian Xia, John R Spence, Mingxian Lin, Chunyang Lu, Yanpeng Li, Jie Chen, Tushou Luo, Yide Li, Suqin Fang
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2023-06-01
Subjects:	animal behavior environmental adaption mortise-tenon structure nut cache squirrel tropical rainforest
Online Access:	https://elifesciences.org/articles/84967