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Sugar glider, glider, flying phalanger, flying possum, Petaurus breviceps

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short-headed glider

marsupial

Also known as: Petaurus breviceps

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An example is the short-headed glider (P. breviceps) found from New Guinea to Tasmania; it is blue-gray with a dark centre stripe and has a long bushy tail. These animals can glide 55 m (180 feet). The greater glider (Schoinobates volans) of eastern Australia may be 105 cm long;…
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