27th November 2004
This juvenile female Sugar glider was found on the decking of a verandah early in
the afternoon in Byron Bay. The caller was uncertain of how it had
arrived, but could tell us that it seemed unresponsive. He thought
it may have fallen from mums back at some stage.
When we received the little female
it was not too well, very dehydrated, thin and the tail was broken.
We rehydrated
the poor little thing, and gave it something to eat, unfortunately
it died during the night.
We wondered how
did it come to be in such a sorry state, I rang the caller back the
following day and he was able to tell me that some time earlier in
the week, some large trees had been felled on a property next door.
We can only assume, but it seems possible that the drey of the Sugarglider
family may have been somewhere in those trees, and this little female
had fallen and broken her tail in the fall. We are once again reminded
of just how many creatures may call older trees home, as we clear
our gardens, please consider this important fact, we share our space
with many other living creatures, they have no where else to go.
