Megapixels These Flying Squirrels Fluoresce Hot Pink And No One Knows Exactly Why
The investigation into these fluorescent flying critters began with a serendipitous discovery: Jonathan Martin, an associate professor of forestry at Northland College in Wisconsin, was coming back from a hike at night, and shone a UV light at the flying squirrels he heard on his bird feeder. “Then I saw this blaze of pink,” he recalls, via email. “It was simply beautiful.” (He was already interested in the topic of fluorescence in nature, and had read a study about fluorescent frogs....