Random Animals Blog

A gliding marsupial. That’s pretty cool.

Sugar gliders live in trees and are nocturnal. They’re called sugar gliders because they like sweet foods, although their preference is for fruit, rather than cakes or chocolate.

Weirdly, despite living in groups of about 15 and therefore seeming like they might be quite sociable animals, they actually boot their young out when they reach the age of about seven to ten months old. This seems particularly harsh being as they don’t even open their eyes for their first three months of life and spend the first couple of those in the old pouch.