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Protoxerus stangeri |
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Ecureuil Géant de Stanger |
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Forest Giant Squirrel, Stanger's Squirrel |
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Large squirrel reaching 60 cm long (with a tail of 30 cm). Head is large. Tail is long, bushy and marked with white and black rings. Pelage is coarse and speckled, olive brown or black above. Head is greyer and underparts with a few reddish-brown hair. Flanks are often bare. |
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Dense forests, gallery forests. |
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Diurnal and arboreal. At night, rests in tree-holes. |
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Fruits, nuts, seeds, insects, eggs, young birds, lizards. Its strength and its large size enable him to crush food that is to tough for smaller species (as oil palm drupes’ stones). |
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After 22 to 45 days of gestation, females give birth to a litter of 1 to 15 young. |
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Warning :
This database was established according to official pieces of work and with the help of famous scientists. However, there might be some errors.
The vernacular names were collected in the field and in the colonial literature from the first part of the 20th century. The monks who established the first dictionaries were not necessarily informed naturalists. Therefore, errors must have been committed.
We invite everyone who could help us to improve this working tool to contact us in order to correct us and share her/his knowledge with us.
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