#0427 · 🦊 mammals

Black Giant Squirrel

🇳🇱 Tweekleurige Reuzeneekhoorn ·Ratufa bicolor

NTnear threatened 🦊 Mammals 📍 outside Europe

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © pfaucher · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Markus Lilje · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
3. © Hafizh Aulia Khairy Rakananda · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Tommy Pedersen · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Vijay Anand Ismavel · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
6. © J. Maughn · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Indonesia:© Tommy Pedersen · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Bhutan:© markus lilje · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
9. Jorhat, IN-AS, IN:© no rights reserved · CC0
10. Arunachal Pradesh, IN:© Supratim Deb · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

what is it?

The black giant squirrel or Malayan giant squirrel ( Ratufa bicolor ) is a large tree squirrel in the genus Ratufa native to the Indomalayan zootope. It is found in forests from northern Bangladesh, northeast India, eastern Nepal, Bhutan, southern China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia, Vietnam, and western Indonesia.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 2,609iNaturalist observations
threat NTnear threatened

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
2,609 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Anders Sparrman in 1778 (248 years ago).