Species group · Mammals
WAnimals has 2 species of glider, spread across 2 families (Acrobatidae, Pseudocheiridae).
Ranges calculated from the profiles that record the figure, not from all 2.
Each one has its own full profile. This group does not replace them: it brings them together.
1 species in this group is in a threatened category according to the IUCN.
Recorded in one country.
It is one of the smallest gliding mammals in the world, and its feather-shaped tail steadies it as it glides between trees.
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Its toes end in pads with minute grooves that act as suckers: it can run along the underside of a branch and even up a vertical pane of glass.
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Its tail looks like a feather: it is flat and carries two rows of stiff hairs along either side, a rudder that lets it steer in mid-glide despite weighing about as much as two coins.
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It glides as far as 100 m between trees and eats almost nothing but eucalypt leaves.
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Its gliding membrane runs from elbow to ankle rather than from wrist to ankle as in the other Australian gliders: it folds its arms under its chin as it glides, which gives it an unmistakable arrow-like silhouette.
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It eats almost nothing but eucalypt leaves from a few particular species, and that extreme dependence means a fire that changes the composition of the forest wipes it out even if the trees grow back.
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