21+ Things To Know About A Sugar Glider. This means they want to sleep all day and might be inclined to leap around their cage or enclosure at night. Sugar gliders can wear a leash, harness or a diaper 15.
As with any animal, sugar gliders have certain drawbacks that you should consider. Sugar gliders are actually marsupials and evolved on a different continent from the flying squirrel. Sugar glider is tiny marsupial.
It is called a sugar glider because it likes to feed on the sugary sap from certain trees.
When i first got a sugar glider, i had made one of the most important things to understand about sugar gliders is that they are colony animals so should. Photograph by joel sartore, national geographic photo ark. Sugar gliders make wonderful pets, bringing joy and great friendship to your home. They feed on nectar, pollen, acacia, and eucalyptus tree sap.