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The Sugar Glider (Petaurus breviceps), sometimes called the Flying Sugar, is a small gliding possum native to eastern and northern mainland Australia, New Guinea, and the Bismarck Archipelago, and introduced to Tasmania.
Physical description
The Sugar Glider is around 16 to 20 cm (6.3 to 7.5 in) in length, with a tail almost as long as the body, and weigh between 90 and 150 grams (3 to 5.3 oz). The fur is generally pearl grey, with black and cream patches at the base of the black or grey ears. Other colour variations include leucistic and albino recessive traits. The tail tapers only moderately and the last quarter of it is black, often with a dark tip. The muzzle is short and rounded. Northern forms tend to be brown coloured rather than grey and, as predicted by Bergmann's Rule, smaller. The most noticeable features of its anatomy, however, are the twin skin membranes called patagium which extend from the fifth finger of the forelimb back to the first toe of the hind foot. 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. The membranes are used to glide between trees: when fully extended they form an aerodynamic surface the size of a large handkerchief.
The gliding membranes are primarily used as an efficient way to get to food resources. They may also, as a secondary function, help the Sugar Glider escape predators like goannas, introduced foxes and cats, and the marsupial carnivores that foxes, cats, and dingos largely supplanted. The ability to glide from tree to tree is clearly of little value with regard to the Sugar Glider's avian predators, however, in particular owls and kookaburras.
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makeoutartist (Ned Hugar) Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:54:29 -0000
Holiday shopping was barbaric but a mall kiosk was selling genuine sugar gliders!! 589$
They are selling Sugar Gliders in the mall. 500 dollars!
scary_mary (scary_mary) Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:16:28 -0000
They are selling Sugar Gliders in the mall. 500 dollars!
@christianxxx1 are sugar gliders good pets?Are yours friendly?If so I wanna meet them. I've only seen them in pet stores and couldn't pet em
ThePrinzzess (Prinzzess) Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:52:36 -0000
@christianxxx1 are sugar gliders good pets?Are yours friendly?If so I wanna meet them. I've only seen them in pet stores and couldn't pet em
@ThePrinzzess i have hedgehogs and sugar gliders. :)
christianxxx1 (ChristianXXX) Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:47:13 -0000
@ThePrinzzess i have hedgehogs and sugar gliders. :)
Today, I discovered Sugar Gliders and Brittany Murphy died. So far that's about it. How adorable and sad.
musicladyd408 (Elle) Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:11:38 -0000
Today, I discovered Sugar Gliders and Brittany Murphy died. So far that's about it. How adorable and sad.
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