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Subject: Re: Behavior Questions
Posted by Cynthia on January 13, 1999 at 14:48:36:
In Reply to: Behavior Questions posted by Tammy H on January 13, 1999 at 13:49:49:
Last night they barely ate their favorite foods, didnt want playtime with momma and even declined a mealworm treat. I think they were busy "doin' the dew".
This is pretty common behavior with gliders that are mating. The are usually pretty secretive about it too but occasionally will come out into the cage when mating. As for coming into heet or season, I don't believe that marsupials do this. I may be wrong but I do not think so. You see marsupials tend to go into a state of embryonic diapause. Once they breed and then birth their young, they generally breed again the day of or the day after giving birth. This embryo goes into a state of stasis. The mother nurses the joey(s), that are in pouch. Once she is no longer nursing, for what ever reason, the embryos then begin the gestation cycle. Once they are born the marsupials breed again and once again those embryos go into a state of stasis. So there really isn't a period of heet or a season to come into.
I don't know what to tell you about your little girl/boy? Perhaps if all else fails you can hold her still long enough with someone assisting you so that you can check for a pouch.