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Have we found a new cute overload and successor to the baby hedgehog in sugar gliders?





Native to Australia and parts of Indonesia and New Guinea, sugar gliders are small marsupial possums that measure about five or six inches long. They're nocturnal creatures with spectacular hearing due to their hairless ears (aw!).

But most impressive is that they can "launch themselves into the air" and "transform into a living kite by spreading out their sails of skin." Using their tails as rudders to control direction, sugar gliders can make glides up to fifty meters, and have even been seen snatching insects in mid-air!

Needless to say, sugar gliders seem potentially awesome, and can, in fact, be legally kept as an "exotic" pet in some parts of the U.S.

However, Elizabeth from Expert Village has, um, quite a few reasons that point out why sugar gliders can be ...less than fun.


Okay, so what you're saying is that they're gnashing, barking, urine-soaked creatures that require buggy mini-feasts who will turn you into a doting insomniac? Yikes.

But are they cute? We think so.