Prevost's Squirrel

Taxobox
name = Prevost's Squirrel

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status = LR/lc | status_system = IUCN2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Sciuridae
genus = "Callosciurus"
species = "C. prevostii"
binomial = "Callosciurus prevostii"
binomial_authority = (Desmarest, 1822)
synonyms =

Prevost's Squirrel or Asian Tri-colored Squirrel ("Callosciurus prevostii") is a species of rodent in the Sciuridae family.It is found in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand. They eat fruits, nuts, seeds, buds, flowers, insects and bird eggs. These squirrels carry the fruits far from the tree and drop the seeds when finished with their meal. The seeds far from the parent tree with reduced likelihood to be eaten by other animals bear an opportunity to produce new generation of plants.

References

* Baillie, J. 1996. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/3603/all Callosciurus prevostii] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 29 July 2007.
* Thorington, R. W. Jr. and R. S. Hoffman. 2005. Family Sciuridae. Pp. 754-818 "in" Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
* [http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Callosciurus_prevostii.html Prevost's Squirrel] at "Animal Diversity Web"