What is Colugo?
{{Taxobox | name = Colugos | fossil_range = Upper [[Palaeocene]] – Recent | image = Colugo (Galeopterus variegatus, adult female), Central Catchment Area, Singapore - 20060618.jpg | image_width = 250px | regnum = [[Animal]]ia | phylum = [[Chordate|Chordata]] | classis = [[Mammal]]ia | infraclassis = [[Eutheria]] | superordo = [[Euarchontoglires]] | ordo = '''Dermoptera''' | ordo_authority = [[Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger|Illiger]], 1811 | subdivision_ranks = [[Genus|Genera]] | subdivision = }} '''Colugos''', also known as '''Dermopterans''', are gliding [[mammal]]s in the [[Order (biology)|order]] '''Dermoptera'''. There are two living species, found in south-east Asia. They are also called 'flying lemurs', though they are not [[lemur]]s (all lemurs are in [[Madagascar]]). They can glide long distances, as they have a thin membrane stretched to the ends of the tail and each limb. == Life style == Colugos live in the [[tropical]] [[rain forest]]s of southeast Asia. Their diet includes leaves and young shoots. During the day they rest high in the trees, clinging to trunks or hiding in tree holes. At dusk they become active, gliding from trunk to trunk like sheets of paper blown on the wind. The young are carried clinging to the flight membrane. == Habitat == Colugos range from [[Burma]], [[Indochina]] and southern [[Thailand]] to peninsular [[Malaysia]], [[Singapore]] and the [[Indonesia]]n islands of [[Sumatra]] and [[Java]]. They also occur throughout [[Borneo]]. A second colugo species inhabits the southern [[Philippines]]. {{biology-stub}} [[Category:Mammals of Asia]]