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Sugar glider

Petaurus breviceps

Photo by lmdang
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Description:

These possums are tiny

Species ID Suggestions

Sugar Glider

Petaurus breviceps

Comments (15)

Thanks, KarenL and Carol. Happy Australia Day to all the Aussies!
Congrats lmdang, your spotting is featured in the Project Noah blog to celebrate Australia Day! http://blog.projectnoah.org/post/41448401464/a-brief-history-of-australian-mammals
Those spectacular eyes.. look like very young ones..
I just put up a photo of the pardalote guarding its tree hollow.
The biggest problem with attracting and keeping sugar gliders is nesting holes. They like the kind of high up tree boles that only develop in very old, or still-standing dead, trees. We only have one very old tree on our 15 acres, and a striated pardolotte (a small bird) pair nests in its nice big bole every year. I'm surprised that something bigger hasn't dislodged them yet, so I'm thinking that the male must be very aggressive.
Lori, with the effort you're going to, I hope you get one residing!
Sugar glider, for sure. I'm still living for the day I see on in the wild. I keep planting their favorite trees on our property.
Thanks, Steve. Definitely sounds like the pygmy possum by size but looks more like the sugar glider. Perhaps I saw baby ones...
I'm not so sure - esp if they were so small. Do you know if it had a big fluffy black tail, or a quite thin brownish tail. (I'm thinking Eastern Pygmy Possum)?
Thanks for the ID, MOJ!
I think so. I can't recall the species though. I think they were about 2" in length
So cute!!! Are they possums?!
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PublishedJune 11, 2011

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