Sugar Glider

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Night Gliding FUN FACT A sugar glider can glide up to 196 feet 60 meters That’s about half the length of a football field Night falls in the forest The large round eyes of a sugar glider open It is time to eat The mammal climbs out from its tree nest It travels across a limb Then it jumps The sugar glider spreads its four legs Thin skin stretches from its wrists to its ankles The skin acts like a kite It catches the wind The sugar glider soars from limb to limb It searches for its next meal Tree sap and insects are good finds A sugar glider is a marsupial like a kangaroo This is a kind of mammal Only three kinds of mammals can glide The sugar glider is one That’s one reason this animal makes a unique pet 4