Cute Sugar Gliders!

My name is Annette Ramos. I'm the fashion editor at Vice. And today you're at my house because I'm babysitting for my parents' sugar gliders. Go! I know that they're from Australia. They're marsupials. They're closely related to koalas. They're called sugar gliders because of their preference for nectarous foods. They basically just eat fruit and insects. I'm feeding them peach yogurt. They hate all other flavors though, which is weird. They're very easy to take care of. Apples, Gatorade, and grain, and maybe some yogurt. Their tails are so long because they can actually use them to wrap around things. And they have these crazy long tongues too. They're like this long. They clean themselves. You'll see them huddled up in a ball together just like licking each other. They have little flaps underneath both of their arms. You put them on a high ledge, they fly off. No, no, no. You're not going in my closet. When we first got them, it took a while to get used to them because they would just jump on you. And sometimes if you're not turned the right way, they'll jump into your hair and just like dangle there. Yeah. During the day, I let them crawl around because they're normally really tame and sleepy. So they're not trying to experiment. They actually sleep most of the day. They're nocturnal, so they wake up at 10 p.m. normally. And they go to bed around 10 p.m. But every now and then they wake up during the day just to play and then they go back to sleep. But when they're awake, they're awake for like 12 hours. They love this wheel, which is extremely loud. Because they're awake all night, it's a little difficult taking care of them in a studio apartment. And then occasionally at night, they'll bark if they want your attention. Like when they first wake up, they want to see you. My dogs, they're fascinated by them. I have an Italian greyhound. My little chihuahua really likes them too. She'll just sniff at them if you have them in your hands when you're feeding them. I think they're about done with us for today. They're going to go back to sleep and wake up at 10. They don't want to play with us anymore.