Wildlife ‘superheroes’ save tiny friends in Port Douglas
WILDLIFE HABITAT
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FORGET the A Team or X-Men, there’s a new band of ‘superheroes’ making waves in Port Douglas at the Wildlife Habitat.
Wildlife keepers at the Port Douglas favourite were faced with one of their most challenging cases yet in tiny orphaned two-month-old sugar gliders.
Hairless, weak and only the size of a peanut, these miniscule marsupials are some of the youngest animals ever brought to the Habitat’s Wildlife Care and Rescue Centre.
The juvenile gliders were found by a Port Douglas local who rushed them into the trusting hands of the park’s wildlife keepers.
Wildlife Team Leader Sharni Thomas said she was hopeful the animals would survive with the correct intensive care.
“Despite the fact these sugar glider joeys look so small and underdeveloped, it won’t take long from this stage for them to grow fur, and open their eyes,” she said.
“In a few weeks these joeys would been old enough to be left in the nest whilst mum would go out looking for food.”
The gliders have been sent to Boongarry Vet where they will be hand-raised. And like all animals brought to the centre, the keepers intend to release them back into the wild when they are old enough.
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