Download Is Sugar Glider A Bat. Sugar gliders are actually marsupials and evolved on a different continent from the flying squirrel. They will even kill a glider from another colony.
Sugar gliders (petaurus breviceps) are small nocturnal arboreal marsupials native to new guinea and the eastern coast of australia. As sugar gliders continue to become ever more popular, it is important to understand how to properly care for these animals so that they have a long happy life as pets like they do in their natural habitats. 1, 5, 20 they inhabit open areas in tropical or coastal forests and dry inland sclerophyll tropical forests.
The sugar glider is a nocturnal animal, meaning they sleep during the day and are up at night.
It eats leaves and fruit. If you get one, it will pretty much have to be caged up, or it can makje huge messes. Tourists swimming into a bat cave several years ago died of diseases contracted from the guano in the cave. In fact, it glides or terbang layang in bahasa.