Squirrel Gliders Get Ready For Release
Squirrel Gliders Get Ready For Release
By Josh Woning Photography
19 February, 2018
Squirrel Gliders Get Ready For Release
Squirrel Gliders Get Ready For Release
By Josh Woning Photography
19 February, 2018
Squirrel Gliders Get Ready For Release
Squirrel Gliders Get Ready For Release
By Josh Woning Photography
19 February, 2018
Squirrel Gliders Get Ready For Release
Squirrel Gliders Get Ready For Release
By Josh Woning Photography
19 February, 2018
Squirrel Gliders Get Ready For Release
Squirrel Gliders Get Ready For Release
By Josh Woning Photography
19 February, 2018
Squirrel Gliders Get Ready For Release
Squirrel Gliders Get Ready For Release
By Josh Woning Photography
19 February, 2018
Fat gliders can’t glide. That’s the blunt message for 10 sugar gliders enrolled in a bootcamp designed to get them fit for a return to the wild.
Volunteers from Bulimba Creek Catchment group B4C built the glider gym as part of a release program to improve the survival rate of orphaned or injured sugar gliders as they are released back to bushland.
The gym was recently set up at the Petrie home of registered wildlife carer and B4C operations manager Stefan Hattingh, with the first group to be released mid-March. Mr Hattingh said the gym was set up to get the baby gliders “survival fit”.
“I refer to them as mini possums on Red Bull,” he said.
“They are so active and so fast. You have to get them in a large enclosure to get them fit and moving. It is learnt behaviour to jump and glide and do all these things.
“Until they get that active and fast they are a sitting duck for any ­predator.”
The 7m-long enclosure has nest boxes, ropes and pulleys, and logs with hollows. 


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