Young sugar gliders (called joeys) are born in the spring.
Very
young sugar gliders can sometimes sleep in strange places until they begin to adjust to all the sights and sounds of their new surroundings.
Dr. Hess's book, Unlikely Companions, the Adventures of an Exotic Animal Doctor (or, What Friends Feathered, Furred, and Scaled Have Taught Me about Life and Love), takes readers through a week of her life where she tries to uncover the source of a mysterious ailment that is leading to the sickness and death of
young sugar gliders.
Not exact matches
Classified as marsupials, female
sugar gliders raise their
young in small pouches on their bellies.
If a
sugar glider was taken from its parents too
young, this is normally the reason for whining or crying.