 | Posted by: | Nicole, Roc1071716@hotmail.com | | Subject: | What is the Prey and Preditor? | | When: | 5:09 PM, 08 Nov 2000 | | IP: | 205.188.192.159 |
HI my name is NIcole and i am doing a report on Sugar Gliders and i need to know what the prey and preditor of the Sugar Glider is if you could e-mail me and tell me that would be great! Hurry to please cause i have to find out before 9:00!
~~Nicole
Roc1071716@hotmail.com
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| Posted by: | Gliderlover, Angie_nightgirl@hotmail.com | | Subject: | none | | When: | 6:08 PM, 08 Nov 2000 | | IP: | 24.65.233.144 |
Hi Nicole!
Sugar gliders predators in the wild include owls, foxes, cats, kookaburras, and lace monitors.
| Posted by: | KarenE, KarenElfrank@aol.com | | Subject: | none | | When: | 6:43 PM, 08 Nov 2000 | | IP: | 152.163.201.53 |
Since sugar gliders are insectivores, their prey would be any insect. Since we are not sure exactly what insects they eat in the wild, we cannot be more specific.
They also eat moths and "bugs" of that nature.
Hope we have been of some help to you.
| Posted by: | Mary/Beck, intr01dc@frank.mtsu.edu | | Subject: | none | | When: | 6:44 PM, 08 Nov 2000 | | IP: | 12.77.80.134 |
They also eat mice and small birds when they get the chance.
| Posted by: | Gliderlover, Angie_nightgirl@hotmail.com | | Subject: | none | | When: | 7:10 PM, 08 Nov 2000 | | IP: | 24.65.233.144 |
Mary/Beck
Eating small animals seems to mostly be a habit of the domestic glider. This could suggest that domestic gliders are deficient in protein. In rare cases it has been known that a wild sugar glider may eat a small lizard or animal. Some sites say that they eat eggs, but I have never seen any proof of that. it would definitely not be a normal in their diet, it is more an act of desperation when insects are not as plentiful.
Angie 
| Posted by: | Mary/Beck, intr01dc@frank.mtsu.edu | | Subject: | Angie | | When: | 11:37 PM, 08 Nov 2000 | | IP: | 12.77.80.134 |
Angie...many many websites and even books list small vertebrates as part of a gliders natural diet in the wild. Small vertebrates could mean lots of things...it may not be specificly birds and mice...but they do eat small vertebrates in the wild.
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