Sugar glider

About

A small, highly social gliding possum found in coastal forests of eastern and northern Australia. It is omnivorous, nocturnal, and named for both its taste for sugary sap and nectar and its gliding membranes.

How to spot it

Small (24-30cm nose to tail, under 150g), blue-grey fur with a bold black stripe running from nose to mid-back and a cream belly. Travels and dens in family groups in tree hollows, and can be located at night by its bark-like yip or hiss calls and quick short glides between trees, much shorter and faster than the larger gliders.

Found in

• Girraween National Park
• Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park
• Blue Mountains National Park
• D'Aguilar National Park (Maiala, Mount Glorious)
• Litchfield National Park
• Kakadu National Park