Species group · Mammals
Wrist-winged Gliders
WAnimals has 2 species of wrist-winged glider, all in the family Petauridae.
- 2 species
- 1 family
- 3 countries
- 17 parks
- Weight
- 80 g – 300 g
- Length
- 12 cm – 30 cm
- Lifespan
- 5 – 6 years
Ranges calculated from the entries that record the figure, not from all 2.
All 2 species of wrist-winged gliders on WAnimals
Each one has its own full entry. This group does not replace them: it brings them together.
Conservation status
No species documented in this group is genuinely at risk according to the IUCN, with the data available today.
See the global conservation statusWhere they live
Recorded in 3 countries. The ones with the most species in the group:
Where to see them
Did you know…
Females can nurse young of different ages at the same time, producing milk of a different composition at each teat.
From Sugar Glider
It eats tree sap, nectar, insects and occasionally small vertebrates.
From Sugar Glider
It lives in forest and woodland of Australia, Indonesia and New Guinea.
From Sugar Glider
It can glide up to fifty metres between trees, steering with the curve of its wrists and using its bushy tail as a rudder.
From Squirrel Glider
It depends on hollow-bearing trees, which a eucalypt takes more than a century to develop: that is why it disappears from forests logged on rotation even when they are covered in trees again.
From Squirrel Glider