By: Rebekah, Meagan, and Gabriella
For our group, we researched Sugar Gliders. Sugar Gliders are nocturnal marsupials, who live in hollowed out old trees. We have predicted that the skin flap between their legs and arms won’t be needed for gliding from tree to tree in the future, so their skin flap will morph into their body, them growing themselves in the process. As they grow they will be able to eat larger predators, and they will once again grow to the size of an average baby kitten.
We believe that this will happen in the future because of three reasons, separation, adaptation, and division. First, their environment would change, due to the loss of trees, separating them from their environment. Then, they would have to adapt to a larger size to protect themselves from dangerous land mammals. Lastly, they would be completely divided from their old species, preventing them from ever mating to produce fertile offspring with the original sugar glider species.
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