My family and I used to have two sugar gliders awhile ago. They are similar to flying squirrels from a distance, but are marsupials, whereas flying squirrels are placental.
Mark Lewack
Emergency Actions Coordinator
FSC, Security Services & Emergency Actions
U.S. Office of Personnel Management
202-606-5415/202-345-4640 (cell phone)
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From: californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com [californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Douglas [hippiblue@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 3:16 PM
To: californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [californiadisasters] Re: A Lucky Squirrel Survives the La Brea Tar Pits
Thank God, it wasn't a Spotted Owl.
--- In californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com<mailto:californiadisasters%40yahoogroups.com>, Kim Noyes <kimnoyes@...> wrote:
>
> A lucky squirrel survives the La Brea Tar Pits
> By *Bettina Boxall - Los Angeles Times
> *September 15, 2011 | 6:00 am
>
> The California Wildlife Center <http://www.californiawildlifecenter.org/> in
> Malibu has cleaned up its share of birds rescued from oil spills. But last
> month, a goo-covered squirrel arrived, freshly plucked from the La Brea Tar
> Pits <http://www.tarpits.org/>, the famous tomb of prehistoric animals.
>
> The young female fox squirrel was rescued by staffers at the nearby Los
> Angeles County Museum of Art <http://www.lacma.org/>who saw her struggling
> in the pool of tar. She went under, managed to pop back to the surface and
> then was lifted out with a stick.
>
> Once at the wildlife center, hospital manager Jo Joseph and animal care
> coordinator Christina Van Oosten attacked the black goop that coated the
> unrecognizable animal from head to claw tip. Their 90 minutes of scrubbing,
> first with mineral oil and then with a mixture of Dawn dish detergent and
> water, was recorded on video <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87VAtwttayo>.
>
> The center kept the squirrel for two weeks to make sure she didn't grow ill
> from her dunking and then released her on the tar pit grounds, presumably
> the wiser.
>
> Source:
> http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2011/09/la-brea-tar-pits-squirrel.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GreenspaceEnvironmentBlog+%28Greenspace%29
>
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