Sugar GliderPetaurus breviceps
Location, Habitat and Diet
Sugar gliders are located in parts of Australia, New Guinea, Tasmania and nearby islands. Sugar gliders will be found in forests where it can feed on the sap of eucalyptus trees.
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The Sugar Glider is also known as the Lesser Flying Phalanger and the Short-Headed Flying Phalanger.
sugar glider, lesser gliding opossum, sugar squirrel
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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
Measures 30 cm, nose to tip of tail. Weighs less than 150 grams. Membrane for gliding stretches between front and back legs, on both sides. Membrane called patagium.
Sugar glider
Class: Mammalia
Status: IUCN: Least Concern; CITES: Not Listed
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Sugar gliders are extremely active animals that can glide up to 45 meters. They nest in groups of up to seven adult males and females and their young, all of whom are related. Groups of sugar gliders are mutually exclusive and territorial.
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
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(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.
Sugar glider (Petaurus breviceps)
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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.
They also evict small mammals, like Sugar Gliders from hollows, which are in short supply over much of Australia because of clearing for agriculture. When a single myna is too weak to dislodge a competitor, a group of them will form a mob.
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Students will meet animals native to the far corners of our planet. A diversity of species, which often fill similar niches, will be presented. Representatives might include an emperor scorpion, red-billed hornbill, bearded dragon or sugar glider.
 See also: Marsupial, Possum, Kangaroo, Squirrel, Opossum
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