Out there, they're being crowded out by development and shot by ranchers. Here, they're in pet stores, gnawing on cages, running the wheels like big hamsters. And I've seen them destroy houses. See, they dig. When they meet an obstacle, they don't go around, they dig through.
Sugar gliders are small marsupials from Australia and New Guinea.
They're about the size of hamsters, with extra membranes connecting their legs, allowing for gliding from trees. Mesquit's sugar gliders are adults, caught in the wilds of New Guinea. He can't really handle them much, he said. They don't like it. But they breed, and he sells the young.