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Sugar Glider Glossary
Here is a list of common words used in the Sugar Glider world and their meanings. This is a glossary that is a work in progress. Please contact us if you have anything to add.
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Tent Test: The term used to describe the process that is used to test gliders for dehydration. When using the tent test, you gently pinch the skin between the gliders shoulder blades. In a hydrated glider, the skin should return to normal within 3-5 seconds. If it remains tented or takes an excessive amount of time to return to normal the glider is dehydrated.
Tent Time: When you take your glider into a small tent (or bathroom) for the purpose of interacting or playing with them.
Torpor: A state of lowered body temperature and metabolic activity assumed by many animals in response to adverse environmental conditions, especially cold and heat. The torpid state may last overnight, or it may last for months as in the case of true hibernation and the winter torpor of many cold-blooded vertebrates.
Trichomonads: are orders of anaerobic parasites with 4-6 flagella. The primary symptom of infection is the waxing and waning of diarrhea which occasionally will contain fresh blood and mucus. Other symptoms include loss of appetite, general lack of activity and occasionally vomiting. They are detected by direct fecal smear.
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If you feel your glider is sick, please seek immediate veterinary assistance. The information on this page and in the correlating articles is for general educational purposes and is not intended to replace proper vet care. Please do not try to self-diagnose or self-treat your glider.
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