What is some information about sugar gliders?

Answer 1

• Sugar gliders are found in Australia (including its island state of Tasmania), Indonesia, and Papua-New Guinea. They were originally native to Australia, but easily spread to other northern islands.
• Sugar gliders are omnivores. In their native environment, sugar gliders feed on tree sap, nectar, some fruits and a variety of small insects such as mealworms, beetles, crickets, grasshoppers, lerps and moths. They prefer sap and resin from trees such as eucalyptus (gum trees) and acacia (wattle).
• Sugar gliders shelter in tree hollows.
• Climatic conditions preferred by sugar gliders include rainforests and bushland (both wet and dry sclerophyll forest). They can adapt to cool-temperate climates, such as that found in Tasmania, and warmer, humid climates of northern Australia, but they are healthiest in drier bushland rather than moist rainforest.
• Sugar gliders are just one of six different species of glider found in Australia.
• Sugar gliders have a membrane which extends from the fifth "finger" of each hand to the first toe of each foot. When they launch out from a tree or pole, they extend their forelimbs and legs, and the membrane catches the air like a glider. They are able to glide up to 100m.