Wild Australia

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The tiny feathertail glider can cover 30m in a single leap as it travels through its forested eastern Australia habitat. That’s a glide of 200 times its combined head, tail and body length – the same as the average human leaping 360m. Weighing up to 15g, this is one of the world’s smallest gliders. Being so tiny can make it hard for a mammal to maintain body heat, so it lives in groups of up to 30, which curl up together in tree hollows to keep warm while sleeping.