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Petaurus breviceps

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sugar glider ‎(plural sugar gliders)

1. Petaurus breviceps, an omnivorous gliding arboreal marsupial, endemic to mainland Australia and New Guinea, and introduced to Tasmania in 1835.
   • 2003, Chris Pinney, The Complete Home Veterinary Guide, page 510:

     As with other exotic pets, sound husbandry is essential for captive sugar gliders to flourish.

   • 2005, C. Hugh Tyndale-Biscoe, Life of Marsupials, page 209:

     As in the eastern pygmy possum (van Tets and Hulbert 1999), this is reflected in a very low nitrogen requirement in sugar gliders (Smith and Green 1987), and probably all sap feeders.

   • 2012, Robin Nixon, Learning PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, and CSS, 2nd edition, O'Reilly, page 557:

     The animals on the cover of Learning PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, and CSS are sugar gliders (Petaurus breviceps). Sugar gliders are small, gray-furred creatures that grow to an adult length of six to seven-and-a-half inches. […] This ensures that of the group will know when an outsider approaches; group members will fight off any sugar glider not bearing their scent.

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