Sugar+Glider-Anna

=Sugar Gliders=


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The Sugar glider has an interesting habitat. The Sugar Glider lives mainly on the northern, eastern, and southeastern coast of Australia as well as a few islands north Australia. A Sugar Glider can live anywhere in these places where their is a food supply and hollow trees for shelter but is commonly found in forests with eucalyptus trees, Acacia trees, and Gum trees. The temperature necessary for Sugar Gliders is 72-80 degrees Fahrenheit and if the Sugar Glider is in temperature 70 degrees or below it will become ill. ||


 * ==Characteristics==

The Sugar Glider has unique characteristics. The scientific name, Petarus Breviceps in Latin means short-headed rope dancer which refers to it's way of leaping branch to branch like a daring acrobat. The sugar glider's tail is very helpful because they can wrap around things and is used like a Rutter so when they leap they can control the way they turn it also helps keep balance. The sugar Glider's long tongue is also helpful because without it, it would be hard to reach the nectar in flowers and the sap in trees like a humming bird. Nectar has sugar in it and so does honey and since they eat it they are called __Sugar__ gliders, __Sugar__ Bears or, __Honey__ Gliders. Sugar Gliders are also marsupials which means they have pouches to hold their joeys just __like__ koalas which is part of the reason that they are related to them. Sugar gliders also have gliding membranes (flaps) which they use to glide and that is why they are called Sugar __Gliders__. Another Characteristic is the sugar gliders eyes they are very large which helps them see through the dark. || media type="custom" key="23339878"press the zoom button top-right next to the moon for a closer look!!!!! than press esc to zoom out! ||

|| ==Adaptatons==
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The sugar gilder has many adaptations. One of them is that the Sugar Glider is nocturnal which means when it is night it is awake but when it is day it sleeps, this is an adaptation because fewer predators lurk during the night. When it nears day the sugar glider rubs along the branches all the way to her nest so that way her kin can pick up her scent and follow it back to their nest. Sugar gliders also have a wide diet of sap, nectar, fruit, and insects that way if some type of sap was rare it could feed on nectar and insects or vice versa. Another adaptation is the sugar glider has a "grooming claw" it has two toes which are closer together and thinner than the other claws ||

|| ==Dangers==
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The Sugar Glider has many dangers. But the pictures you see are not the only dangers. We are are a danger of a Sugar Glider to! We are chopping down trees that Sugar Gliders have inhabited and taking them from their homes so their aren't as many to mate and every day we are chopping down more and more trees and plucking more and more Sugar Gliders from their natural habitat.But than again other animals do their part every one a while a snake will swallow a Sugar Glider or a cat will devour one but we are the main reason they are endangered. But we are the main reason that most animals are endangered so if we all take a stand we can save animals the enviroment and so much more! ||

References
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