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Sugar Glidar

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SUGAR GLIDER

  • The Sugar Glider is named because of its preference for sweet foods.
  • Sugar gliders eat insects, meat, and vegetation although not all food is suitable for sugar gliders.
  • The second part of its name "Glider" is because is glides, not fly from tree to tree.

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  • Sugar gliders have a thin membrane that stretches between their front and rear legs much like the flying squirrels in North America.
  • You can find them in Australia, Tasmania, Indonesia, and New Guinea.
  • Sugar gliders are also small marsupials

FACTS ABOUT THE SUGAR GLIDER

  • All though people have them as pets the Sugar Glider cannot be potty trained.
  • After a sugar glider is pregnant it only takes about 17 days for the baby to be born.
  • Sugar gliders are nocturnal by nature meaning they tend to like to stay up through out the night

FACTS PT 2

  • Sugar Gliders are not rodents, they are marsupials, in the same family as a Kangaroo or a Koala Bear. Sugar Gliders are about the same as household pets such as hamsters, gerbils, ferrets, squirrels, etc..
  • The lifespan is around 12 to 15 years

FACTS PT 3

  • As in kangaroos babies are called joeys After that time, the mother sugar glider will leave them in the nest while she looks for food. At 4 months of age, the young sugar gliders are on their own.
  • Sugar Gliders are extremely social.

FACTS PT 4

  • MoMo off of avatar is a sugar glider