SUGAR GLIDERS: TINY MARSUPIALS WITH THEIR OWN BUILT-IN PARACHUTES

Sugar gliders may look like someone crossed a mouse with a flying squirrel and then equipped it with enormous night-vision goggles, but these remarkable little mammals are neither rodents nor squirrels. They are marsupials—pouched mammals belonging to the order Diprotodontia and the family Petauridae.The true sugar glider, Petaurus breviceps, lives in the forests and woodlands of eastern