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Feathertail Gliders eat mainly nectar and pollen from Banksia flowers. Their tongues have special fine hairs on the tips which help them collect nectar and pollen.

Feathertails do eat sap, as well as pollen and nectar from other plants. They also eat small arthropods such as lerps.

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