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Sugar glider

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Sugar glider - PETAURUS BREVECEPS
Possibly Endangered
Class: Animals with Milk Glands (Mammalia)
Subclass: Changing Mammals (Metatheria)
Order: Pouched Mammals (Marsupialia)
Family: Petauridae.

 


Sugar Gliders get their name from their "sweet tooth" and because they have a fold of furred skin stretching from their forefeet to their hind feet which they spread out like a kite to help them glide through the trees searching for insects and ...

Sugar gliders are tiny gliding opossums. They live in groups of up to seven adult males and females, plus their young. Not only are all group members related, but they don't tolerate gliders from other groups.

Sugar glider populations are fairly stable and often thrive in the strips and patches of forest left on cleared agricultural land, unlike some of their opossum cousins.

SUGAR GLIDER
XENARTHRA
sloths, anteaters, & armadillos
LINNÉ'S TWO-TOED SLOTH ...

The Sugar Glider (Petaurus breviceps)
The Squirrel Glider
(Petaurus norfolcensis)
The Virginia Opossum (Didelphis virginiana), the only North American marsupial north of Mexico.

Sugar Glider
Sugar Glider sitting in tree
Sugar Glider sitting on branch
Sulphur Crested Cockatoo
Sulphur specimen
Summative Evaluation: Dinosaur Unearthed Exhibition
Summertime is cicada time
Summing Up
Superb Lyrebird ...

(1995) Population Ecology of the Squirrel Glider (Petaurus norfolcensis) and the Sugar Glider (P. breviceps) (Marsupialia: Petauridae) at Limeburners Creek, on the Central North Coast of New South Wales. Wildlife Research 22: 471-505.
Sharpe D. J.

Hidden Hang Glider: These are inconspicuous when the Sugar glider is at rest — it merely looks a little flabby, as though it had lost a lot of weight recently — but immediately obvious when it takes flight.

Brand New Aviary Bird Sugar Glider Ferret Cage
Size: 30"x18"x81"
Color: White ...

See also: Marsupial, Possum, Kangaroo, Squirrel, Opossum