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sugar glider

noun

Etymology

This common name refers to the animal's predilection for sugary foods such as sap and nectar and its ability to glide through the air, much like a flying squirrel.

Definitions

  1. Any of species Petaurus breviceps of omnivorous gliding arboreal marsupials, endemic to…

    Any of species Petaurus breviceps of omnivorous gliding arboreal marsupials, endemic to mainland Australia and New Guinea, and introduced to Tasmania in 1835.

    • As with other exotic pets, sound husbandry is essential for captive sugar gliders to flourish.
    • As in the eastern pygmy possum (van Tets and Hulbert 1999), this is reflected in a very low nitrogen requirement in sugar gliders (Smith and Green 1987), and probably all sap feeders.

  2. Krefft's glider (Petaurus notatus).

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