Differences for “ Natural Diet ”

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Different Species of Gliders have particular adaptations associated with thier
the physiology of their digestives systems relating to their different diets,
particulary in the morphology and physiology of thier digestives systems.
  
  
**Anthrapods**
  
A Sugar Gliders diet include:
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**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 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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Is producedA sweet tasting, honeydew like liquid secreted by sap-sucking insects
that secrete a honeydew like liquid, insects, that when dried forms manna; it
has a sweet taste.
  
**Honeydew**
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A white, carbohydrate rich chrystalline sustance that is found Eucalypt leaves
  
**Wattle Gum****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 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 wattle Acacia tree.
Sugar Gliders chew the trunk of the wattle Acacia tree to stimulate the flow of
its gum, which in they then eats. 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 exudate-feeding species, the other,
similar feeding 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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