S2E4: Huge woolly flying squirrels from the Himalayas!

Zoe interviews Kris Helgen, Chief Scientist and Director of the Australian Museum Research Institute.

They discuss how one species became three, what makes these animals unique, and what other questions scientists could ask about them in the future.

This paper is in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society’s February 2022 issue, “Across the great divide: revision of the genus Eupetaurus (Sciuridae: Pteromyini), the woolly flying squirrels of the Himalayan region, with the description of two new species.”

A copy of the paper is available here: https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/194/2/502/6287636
To learn more about Kris, follow him on Twitter: @khelgen