#patagium

Glide into the weekend with the sugar glider (Petaurus breviceps)!

This marsupial has a membrane, called the patagium, that spans its ankles to its wrists,and helps it drift between trees. The arboreal critter lives in parts of Australia, New Guinea, and Indonesia and comes out at night to look for treats like nectar, sap, lizards, and small birds.

Photo: Dash Huang, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0, flickr

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This sleeping beauty is a colugo, found in Southeast Asia. Colugos have an extension of their skin called a patagium that they use for controlled gliding from higher to lower locations in the trees.

Image credit: Hendy Mp