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An amazing feature of the flying squirrel is its ability to glide over long distances. They do not truly fly like birds or bats. Their ability to glide comes from a loose flap of skin attached ...
A sugar glider is a tree-dwelling, tropical marsupial native to Australia and New Guinea and related not too distantly to our marsupial opossums. Meet Marge, a European hedgehog ...
The Sugar Glider (Petaurus breviceps), sometimes called the Flying Sugar, is a small gliding possum native to eastern and northern mainland Australia, New Guinea, and the Bismarck Archipelago, and ...
Alarming, sure, but my dramatic acquaintance sang the praises of the 10-inch marsupial: Lola, who resembled a flying squirrel, was calm and cuddly — “more loving than a dog” even.
The researchers investigated how wing flaps develop in two tiny mammals, the marsupial sugar glider (Petaurus breviceps) and a microbat: Seba’s short-tailed bat (Carollia perspicillata). The ...
Sugar gliders are one of the cutest animals in the world. They resemble flying squirrels, but they’re marsupials, not rodents. Now, they’re becoming increasingly popular as pocket pets because ...