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What Kind Of Amazon Animal Is IT?

theres this book that has amazon animals i it. and in it, was a picture of this very strange creature, that lives in the trees, and it blended in the trees really well, it had loose skin on its side like a sugar gkider, for gliding, the skin was really loose, and it had the animal holding on to a branch, upside down. Amazon mammal, Large Lives in the trees NOT a monkey or sugar glider has a weird name. when upside down, its loose skin on its side (for gliding) is really good to keep its baby safe, like as if the baby where in a bag. WHAT IS IT??? sorry, no pics:( i dunno what its called. i forgot! any answers?? guesses ??? thats all the info i can give. Thanks

Public Comments

1. Possibly a sloth? http://www.sloth.ca/sloths/info.html Here's another website with some more mammals from the amazon. http://rainforests.mongabay.com/amazon/mammals.html
2. Probably one of the sloths. They blend in to the tree canopy by growing fungus and algae in their fur. animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/three-toed-sloth.html
3. Is it a kinkajou?
4. It sounds like you are talking about a fly lemur or Demoptera. However I think they live in Southeast Asia not the amazon. It is possible that the author made a mistake. I have seen such mistakes many times before. For example I have a text that lists kangaroos as on the diet for Jaguars. Unfortunately Jaguars are American and kangaroos are Australian (Of course he/she may have meant kinkajou and the spell check changed it) There are a species or two of flying squirrel in the amazon.