Black Giant Squirrel
Ratufa bicolor
- Class
- Mammal
- Rarity
- Rare
- Observations
- 1,449
- Most observed in
- 🇹🇭 Thailand
- Conservation
- Near Threatened
Description
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, West Malaysia, Cambodia, Vietnam, and western Indonesia (Java, Sumatra, Bali and nearby small islands).
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Black giant squirrel”.