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39+ What Do Sugar Gliders Eat

39+ What Do Sugar Gliders Eat. They are naturally sweet, docile and friendly which adds to their appeal. They will also eat bird eggs, lizards, small birds, and other small prey.

What Is A Sugar Glider
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They are naturally sweet, docile and friendly which adds to their appeal. That, along with short periods of reduced body temperature called torpor, helps them save energy on colder days. It can be found in australia, tasmania, indonesia and papua new guinea.

Yes, sugar gliders eat a lot of insects and other kinds of bugs to support its nutritional needs.

The sugar glider (petaurus breviceps) is a small marsupial originally native to eastern and northern mainland australia, new guinea, and the bismarck archipelago, and introduced to tasmania. They are called sugar gliders because they love eating sugar. Gliders in the wild eat very low fat diets and get lots of exercise gliding through the rain forest. A sugar gliders diet in the wild may include… eucalyptus blossoms pollen tree sap from eucalyptus trees and/or acaia trees insects ( beetle larva ) figs, ( other fruits ) flowers ( when in trees ) slideshow.