Anyone else wondering if we'll ever actually see the gliders? To the best of my knowledge they are nocturnal and yet here are being kept in a quite brightly-lit enclosure. Anyone know of another collection that keeps sugar gliders in an enclosure like this?
It saddens me to think that group came from London. They did very well there, and an enclosure in the "Night Zone" is taken up by Brown Rats. Further comment seems superfluous.
It saddens me to think that group came from London. They did very well there, and an enclosure in the "Night Zone" is taken up by Brown Rats. Further comment seems superfluous.
Very sadly, as they are few and far between in Europe, and their loss meant one fewer marsupial taxon in the UK; I believe they went to a private collection but have no idea what the motive for this move was if they planned to just get their commonplace cousin in as a replacement
how big is this cage? What I find regularly is that sugar gliders seem to rarely be kept in suitably large (long) enclosures. They get housed a lot as if they were domestic rats or something.
The doors are standard doors, and the enclosure only continues left for the depth of the plant pot. Not huge, but certainly not the smallest enclosure I've seen by a looong way!
London have sugar gliders in one half of the former armadillo enclosure in the 'bat cave' part of the nocturnal area. They are a fairly recent addition with chinchilla in the other half.
It's a shame that a zoo like London can't put two rarely seen or endangered animals in the former armadillo enclosure rather than two commonly kept animals, taking up space really.
