Q 01/05

Sugar gliders look and act remarkably like which animal, though the two are not closely related?

A) Fruit bat

B) Bush baby

C) Flying squirrel

D) Ring-tailed lemur

Answer · why

C) Flying squirrel

Flying squirrels are rodents, while sugar gliders raise their young in a pouch like kangaroos. The two developed near-identical gliding bodies indepen...

Q 02/05

Like kangaroos and koalas, sugar gliders belong to which group of mammals?

A) Marsupials

B) Rodents

C) Primates

D) Monotremes

Answer · why

A) Marsupials

Marsupials give birth to tiny, undeveloped young that finish growing in a pouch. A sugar glider mother's pouch sits in the middle of her belly.

Q 03/05

Sugar gliders are named for their taste for sweet tree sap and which other sugary liquid?

A) Molasses

B) Cane juice

C) Treacle

D) Nectar

Answer · why

D) Nectar

Nectar and sap are the sugary staples behind the first half of the name. The second half describes how the animal sails between trees on outstretched ...

Q 04/05

Launching from a high branch, about how far can a sugar glider travel in a single glide?

A) 5 metres

B) 50 metres

C) 500 metres

D) 5 kilometres

Answer · why

B) 50 metres

50 metres or more is possible because the stretched membrane works as an aerofoil. The animal drops only about 1 metre for every 1.82 metres it travel...

Q 05/05

A baby sugar glider is known by which name?

A) Kit

B) Joey

C) Pup

D) Calf

Answer · why

B) Joey

Joey is the name for the young of every pouched mammal. A newborn sugar glider weighs just 0.2 grams when it crawls into its mother's pouch.