 Size:
Head & body length: 170mm
Tail Length: 190mm
Weight:
130g
Identification:
A rat-sized glider, soft grey fur with a black stripe on the head and body.
Tail at least thick as a person's thumb, usually with a white tip.
Call/Song:
Distributed
throughout the northern and eastern parts of Australia, from The Kimberlys
to Tasmania.
Habitat:
Generally found in the wetter, higher altitude habitats.
Movement:
As
with all gliders, this animal can launch itself from a tree and glide to
another (up to a distance of 50 m).
Feeding:Eats
insects and the sap from eucalypts and some wattles.
Breeding/Nesting:A
nocturnal animal which spends most of the day sleeping in tree hollows. |
Photo: Glenn Threlfo
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Other Common Names: Sugar squirrel, lesser flying squirrel,
short- headed or lesser flying phalanger, lesser glider.
Status: Common
Distribution:
Abundance:
Common
Cayley, N. W. & Strahan, R.(1987)
What
Mammal Is That?, Angus & Robertson Publishers, Australia.
Strahan, R.(ed.) (1983) The Australian
Museum Complete Book of Australian Mammals, Angus & Robertson Publishers,
Australia.
Queensland Museum
(1995) Wildlife of Greater Brisbane, Queensland Museum, Brisbane.
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