Differences for “ Natural Diet ”

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Different Species of Gliders have particular adaptations associated with the
physiology of thier their digestives systems relating to thier their different
diets,
  
A Sugar Gliders diet include:
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**Anthrapods****Live Foods**
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Spiders, Moths, Insects, Beetles, Small Birds and their eggs, Small Mammals.
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**Honeydew**
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A white, carbohydrate rich chrystal like sticky sustance that is secreted by
aphids and some scale insects found on Eucalypt leaves.
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**Lerps**
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Small bugs that live on gum leaves
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**Manna** 
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A sweet tasting, honeydew like liquid secreted by sap-sucking insects, that 
when dried forms manna;
  
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**Fungi**
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**Eucalyptas Sap**
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This is obtained by stripping of the bark.
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**Pollen**
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The powdery substance found on flowers. a flower's stamen.
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**Nectar**
A sugar rich liquid produce by flowers. Favourite nectar rich flowers of the
Sugar Glider are Bottlebrush, Grevellia, Flowering Gum, Banksia, and Grass
Tree(flowering stem).
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**Acacia (Wattle) Gum**
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The Gum is produced in response to damage or wound to the Acacia tree.  Sugar
Gliders chew the trunk of the Acacia tree to stimulate the flow of its gum,
which they then eat. consume.
Wattle Gum is not easily digestible digested because of its high Tannin
properties.
Because But,
because Sugar Gliders consume a great deal of wattle gum it has they have an
elarged enlarged ceacum, larger than other, similar feeding species, the
species. The enlarged ceacum helps to faciliatate microbial fermentation of
these types of foods.
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**Acacia (Wattle) Seeds**
  
  
The digestive tract of the sugar glider is shown in the picture below.
  
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