Can you leave other sugar gliders in with baby sugar gliders?

Answer 1

The parents of the sugar glider should stay with the baby for at least 8 weeks, if that is what you're asking.

In their natural state, sugar gliders may live in a group of up to seven adults and their young, which form a 'clan', sharing a nest. The young joeys learn to socialise with the other young, playing with them, but also learn to be fiercely defensive of their own territory. Whether this works when sugar gliders are being kept in captivity in a tiny cage is uncertain.

Answer 2

Sugar gliders are not subject to cannibalism, as they are herbivores and insectivores.

Occasionally, sugar gliders which are kept as pets have been known to eat their own young. This is only because sugar gliders are wild animals, and cannot be truly domesticated - if they eat another glider's young it is because of a specific stress they are experiencing in captivity.

In their natural state, sugar gliders may live in a group of up to seven adults and their young, which form a 'clan', sharing a nest. The young joeys learn to socialise with the other young, playing with them, but also learn to be fiercely defensive of their own territory. Whether this works when sugar gliders are being kept in captivity in a tiny cage is uncertain.

Answer 3

Both the mother and father will cannibalize the young if they feel that there is something wrong with it --- that is just their nature. If the young is healthy though, and both the mother and father are at the proper age to be breeding, the father plays a large part in helping to raise the joeys.

Answer 4

Sugar gliders never eat other sugar gliders when in their native habitat.

The practice of keeping these delicate creatures as exotic pets has resulted in some instances where sugar gliders cannibalise their young. They may do this if they are stressed - not all that uncommon, as sugar gliders are not meant to be confined in cages: they are wild animals, and cannot be truly domesticated.

Answer 5

no