Get Sugar Glider National Geographic. You think you've got a sweet tooth. To glide effectively, a sugar glider will generate power by thrusting its hind legs off a tall tree and spread its limbs to reveal the patagium or membrane connected to each of the limbs.
To glide effectively, a sugar glider will generate power by thrusting its hind legs off a tall tree and spread its limbs to reveal the patagium or membrane connected to each of the limbs.
For day visitors, please avoid busy parks between 11am and 2pm. Video — animals, travel, kids — national geographic. The common name refers to its preference for sugary nectarous foods and ability to glide through the air, much like a flying squirrel. The sugar glider (petaurus breviceps) is a small, omnivorous, arboreal, and nocturnal gliding possum belonging to the marsupial infraclass.