Sugar Glider, Tiny Adorable Pets

Sugar Glider, Tiny Adorable Pocket Pets

Sugar Glider or Petaurus Brevicep is similar animals whose natural habitat squirrel fly there in the jungle of Papua New Guinea, Papua, Tasmania and Australia and is more often found in the forests of eucalyptus forest. Sugar glider has a body like a squirrel with a long tail that can be used for hanging on the branch of a tree branch or holding. Male body size larger than the females. In addition to the long tail and small body size of a sugar glider is able to glide up to a distance of 50-150 meters with developing membrane / patagium that extends from each of her toes to resemble a flying squirrel. Another uniqueness is sugar gliders can be included in the bag / sock as this animal hide.

The Facts of the Sugar Glider

1. Sugar gliders get their name from their love of sugar and their innate ability to glide from tree to tree by using the webbed area between your body and hind legs together with their tails.
2. The sugar gliders are marsupials, such as kangaroo or wombat.
3. Sugar gliders only weigh about 4 ounces as full grown adults.
4. Sugar gliders can glide over 150 meters.
5. In the wild, when a sugar glider launching himself from a tree, he spread his limbs.
6. Gliding membrane of sugar gliders lies from his wrists to his ankles and open to slow the descent, like a parachute.
7. A sugar glider can change the curvature of the membrane to move his feet to set the slide, and also uses its tail (which for him) like steering.
8. Sugar gliders, such as kangaroos, have a pouch in which the glider baby, called Joey, live for 60-70 days. At around the age of 4 months, Joey who is able to hold his own in the outside pockets.
9. In the wild, sugar gliders live in the trees, and rarely, if ever, touched the ground.
10. Sugar gliders nest in holes in old growth trees and marks their nests with urine.
11. In the wild, sugar gliders can live in groups of up to 15-30 glider.
12. Sugar gliders have opposable fingers and toes.
13. Sugar gliders are found in Australia, Tasmania, Indonesia, and New Guinea. Their scientific name is Petaurus Breviceps and are in the same order as kangaroos, possums, wombats and Tasmanian devils.

Sugar Glider as Adorable Pets

Here is how to care for a sugar glider if you are interested in make them as pets:

• The size and condition of the cage

For cage, sugar gliders can use lovebird cage or special cage hamster width and height, which includes fitted pieces hanging tree limb vertical or oblique, because sugar gliders happy climbing and jumping. The bigger the cage the better or higher of course with tight spacing bars that sugar gliders are not easily blurred slip through the bars. Also provide nest boxes for sugar gliders can hide using small Glodok, PVC pipe, etc. enclosure also can be equipped also with a wheel for toys.

• Provision of food and drinks

Sugar gliders including omnivore so giving fruits and insects are the main menu every day. Fruits can be a banana, apple, pear, papaya and also tuber crops seperit yam, boiled carrots and boiled potatoes. But avoid giving fruit such as avocados, oranges and onions onions because it could endanger his health. For insects that are additional food, can be given crickets and worms. The food menu should be punctuated alternately every day because the animal is classified as a sugar glider that picky.

• Cleanliness of the cage

Maintain cleanliness of the cage is an absolute requirement that sugar gliders are always healthy, agile and not look dull. In addition to cleaning every day we will not have a bad odor of their feces.