A Sugar Glider is a marsupial that can glide up to 50 to 100 meters. Their name comes from an early bush man. The Sugar Glider is a bluish  gray color. Sugar Gliders are known to live for nine years in the wild. A Sugar Glider has five claws to grab on to trees while they're gliding.   

The Sugar Glider is found in forests and woodlands in the Northern Territory, Cape York, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, and Tasmania.

The Sugar Glider breeds from July to November, so the joeys are taken care of during Spring and Summer when there is plenty of food. Being Marsupials the joeys remain in a pouch usually for just over two months. The pouch is forward facing with two teats and often twins are born. The joeys are left for three months or so in the nest. They then leave the nest to forage for food under the guidance of either their mother or father.  

During the day the sugar glider sleeps. It rests on a dry gum leaf lined nest in a hole in the tree. They are nocturnal, which means that it sleeps in the day and night is when they do things. They mark their territory by a scent.       

Sugar Gliders enjoy sweet foods, including the flowers and nectar of gum trees. During the the winter months, they feed on mainly gummy exudes of eucalypts and acacias cutting a V-shaped groove in tree trunks with their teeth and licking the sap or strip bark and eat the sapwood. During the rest of the year, insects make up the main diet of this glider. 

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The Sugar Glider's gliding membrane( a very thin skin ) extends from the fifth finger to the ankle. By spreading out this membrane they glide from 50-100 meters from tree to tree. They use their long bushy tail for stability and steering as well as "tilting" the left or right membrane. It lands successfully on its out stretched feet.

Sugar Gliders are active at night and during day sleep in a nest made of leaves in tree-hollows. Anywhere from 7 and 12 gliders will co-habitat in these nests, some stay to help keep themselves warm by sharing body heat. Another way they can conserve heat, when food is scarce or temperatures plummet, is to go into a Torpor (like a mild hibernation, where its body temperature drops down close to the air around them) They are playful amongst their own "clan" group but will fiercely attack any intruder whether it be another Sugar Glider or a totally different animal. Dominant male Sugar Gliders will scent other clan members and the territory around the nest.