Sugar glider
Photo: Eric Vanderduys
Sugar gliders earned their name from their love of eating nectar and flowers but they eat insects too.
Body length 170mm; tail length 190mm; weight 130g. Rat-sized body with soft grey fur, black stripe on head and body. Tail thick as a human thumb, often with white tip. Gliding membrane extends from wrist to ankle.
Droppings 12mm x 4mm, black, pointed at one end, might be joined by hair. 'Yip-yip-yip' call.
Eucalypt forests and rainforest at all altitudes
Cats, clearing, barbed-wire fences
Common in most of range
Eucalypt and wattle gum, nectar, pollen, invertebrates
Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland December 2005