Join us for the first of two episodes about the savanna glider - a marsupial of Northern Australia - with Dr Alyson Stobo-Wilson and Dr Teigan Cremona from Charles Darwin University.
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(00:00) Intro
(00:30) Alyson and Tegan's research
(01:48) Describing the savanna glider
(02:38) Gliding distance and variation in body size
(04:59) Diet
(12:00) Where in Northern Australia can you find them?
(13:08) Predators of savanna gliders
(14:52) Gliders' ecological role as pollen spreaders
(15:27) Finding gliders at night
(17:50) Communication among gliders
(20:28) Social grouping
(22:46) Living in tree hollows
(23:14) Time in the pouch
(24:18) Lifespan
(24:45) Episode break
(25:30) Evolution
(27:59) Threats
(32:33) What land managers can do
(34:53) Indigenous people and gliders
(38:19) What citizens can do
(40:45) Monitoring to learn about Kimberley savanna gliders
(43:37) Being a savanna glider
(46:20) Outro
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