... native mammals) employ periods of daily torpor or prolonged multi-day torpor (hibernation) to conserve energy. Daily torpor is used by dasyurids (e.g. dunnarts, antechinus, quolls), myrmecobiids (numbat), tarsipedids (honey-possum), petaurid possums (e.g. sugar glider), rodents (but only known...

... accumulated between 2011 and 2018. A total of 12 mammal species was detected in the diet, with the Bush Rat Rattus fuscipes , Agile Antechinus Antechinus agilis , Sugar Glider Petaurus breviceps and Rabbit Oryctolagus cuniculus dominating. The diet also included three threatened species, the Eastern Pygmy...

... and Lindenmayer 2007; Kingsford et al. 2009). Gliding mammals along the east coast of Australia are dependent on tree cover to traverse landscape (Ball and Goldingay 2008). Species such as Feathertail Gliders Acrobates pygmaeus and A. frontalis, Squirrel Glider Petaurus norfolcensis and Sugar Glider Petaurus...

... family (Goldingay and Jackson 2004), most notably Yellow-bellied Gliders Petaurus australis (Goldingay 1987) and Sugar Gliders P. breviceps (Smith 1982). Rich in sugars, tree sap provides an important source of energy for these intermediate-sized omnivores (Hume 1999). Confirmation of sap in the diet has...

... N B N m X XBN X X X X Mountain B-hrril Possum X X XM X K X Common Brushtail P a m Xn X Xm XNf X Xh XBN XN XCK X BN BN XBn X XB X B Common Rin%;til Possum X X Xm XNf b Xh XBN X CX X BN Bnm XBn XB X X X Greater Glider Xn XM XNf Xh XN CK X Yellow-bcUicd Glider X X XC X Squirrel Glider x N Sugar Glider...

... ecology of the squirrel glider (Petaurus norfolcensis) and the sugar glider (P. breviceps) (Marsupiala: Petauridae) at Limeburners Creek, on the central north coast of New South Wales. Wildlife Research, 22: 471-505. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/WR9950471 Reynolds, S.J. 2005. Use of tree hollows...

... # 15, Plate 18, Table 1) was unexpected. There is some doubt as to the identity of the glider as it is difficult to distinguish, from the photograph, between a Sugar Glider Petaurus breviceps and a Squirrel Glider P. norfolcensis. The Sugar Glider is common on the site, whereas the Squirrel Glider...

... a Sugar Glider Petaurus breviceps being snatched by a comprised one bushland remnant in Oatley and another Powerful Owl; however, this incident occurred after the in Hurstville Grove, separated by a distance of 600 m prey was unintentionally disturbed from a tree hollow over urban development. The second...

... gliders and all possum species and sugar gliders were present only in very low numbers (Andrew 2001). Surveys for large forest owls and gliders in Royal NP undertaken by Dr Rod Kavanagh in 1996, 2001 and 2006 also failed to locate any greater gliders (R. Kavanagh pers. comm More recent surveys undertaken...

.... - Daniel Lunney Fig. 7. The underside of the Sugar Glider Petaurus breviceps showing the gliding membranes. - Daniel Lunney Fig. & - W 8 f W e W a d . - Q u a B B a a y u m s m a c u w f ~ ! ~ ~ ~ a m m s P a p k ~ . T h E r ~ ~ ~ t RESULTS Species and Status Table 1 provides a summary of habitats...

..., D.G. 1995. Population ecology of the Squirrel Glider and Sugar Glider at Limeburners Creek, on the Central North Coast of NSW. Wildlife Research 22: 471-505. Robertson, P., Bennett, A.F., Lumsden, L.F., Silvera, C.E., Johnson, P.G., Yen, A.L., Milledge, G.A., Lillwhite, P.K. and Pribble, H.J. 1989...

... species regarded as rare here are also species which we know little about, particularly in the Northwestern CypressIIronbark Belt. Two species, the Yellow- footed Antechinus Antechinus flavipes and the Sugar Glider Petaurus brewiceps were detected less than twenty times, but were found to be widespread...

... from White Cypress-pine Callitris glaucophylla / Blakely s Red Gum Eucalyptus blakelyi association. Other, less commonly recorded species of arboreal marsupial included the Feathertail Glider Acrobates pygmaeus, Squirrel Glider Petaurus norfolcensis, Sugar Glider Petaurus breviceps (all in River Red...

... in size from category A to E. Prey category A=arthropod; B=skink, V. varius egg, vertebrate bone, human garbage; C= agamid (probably eastern water dragon), bird, rat, fish, sugar glider; D=fox, cat, brushtail possum, rabbit, greater glider, southern brown bandicoot, snake; E=cattle, horse, eastern grey...

... populations of small arboreal and terrestrial species such as the Yellow-footed Antechinus Antechinus flavipes, Brush- tailed Phascogale Phascogale tapoatafa, Squirrel Petaurus norfolcensis and Sugar Gliders P. breviceps (van der Ree 2000; 2003; van der Ree et al. 2001; van der Ree and Bennett 2003...

... alba at 7 (4 Owlet Nightjar Aegotheles cristatus at 22 (13 Tawny Frogmouth Podargus strigoides at 27 (15 Brushtail Possum at 76 (43 Ringtail Possum Pseudochirops peregrinus at 7 (4 Koala Phascolarctos cinereus at 4 (2 Sugar Glider Petaurus breviceps at 5 (3 and the Squirrel Glider Petaurus norfolcensis...

... eucalypts, particularly the profuse flowering of E. bosistoana in January 1981. Sugar Glider Petaurus breviceps Common. This species was seen and heard in all areas of the forest, in a wide range of tree species and tree sizes, and was the commonest and most widespread of aU the possum-glider species...

... Sugar Glider P. breviceps 12 13 3 28 Feathertail Glider Acrobates pygmaeus 3 4 0 7 Common Ringtail Possum Pseudocheirus peregrinus 10 10 4 24 Common Brushtail Possum Trichosurus vulpecula 7 4 1 12 Grey-headed Flying-fox Pteropus poliocephalus 7 7 0 14 Powerful Owl Ninox strenua 8 10 2 20 Southern...

...-railed Rat Sugar Glider Black Flying-fox Echidna Hoary Wattled Bat Little Bent-winr Bat SOURCE RELATI\'E ABUNDANCE HABITAT I MI 3 AERIAL 2 AERIAL 3 S, D 3 S 2 MI 3 ALL 3 S 2 S, D 2 MI, S 2 MI, S I MI, S 2 MI. S 2 MI, S 2 E, MI, S 3 S, MI 2 S. MI 2 D I S 2 S, MI 2 MI, S 2 MI 3 S, B 2 S, MI 1 S 2 MI, S 1 S...