Download Sugar Glider Flying Mammals. Bats are a perfect example of flying mammals living in the world today, and there are numerous examples of other extant gliding mammals. Sugar gliders and flying squirrels look amazingly similar.
It therefore makes sense that they have evolved large eyes to help them see in likenesses between placental mammals and marsupials are not limited to these two gliders.
Sugar gliders, petaurus breviceps, join flying squirrels and flying lemurs as the only living gliding mammals. The latter are among the flying mammals of the world. It is actually a gliding possum, and a marsupial, which means that it carries its young in a pouch. They are both furry animals of about the same size, with big eyes and a white belly.