Pet Sugar Glider

Pet Sugar Gliders do make many different sounds.

BARKING

The most annoying sound to the owner will be the nightly barking. Barking is simply a very loud repeated "bark" that they use to find others. I think they use this as part of their mating practices as well. This must be taken into consideration when buying a glider as a pet for the first time. You will find that the "all night" barking can drive you nuts and keep you awake at night. Best thing to do is to put the cage in a seperate room away from people. If the barking is still annoying, you can turn on a light and they most likely will stop.

A barking glider may just want attention if i simply go to the cage and talk with my glider she immediately stops barking and comes to the front of the cage to investigate.

Temperature and environment seems to have no factor with barking. No one is really sure entirely what it means, but barking is normal and can be collective. Typically one animal will bark alone, male OR female. Barking is not just male but is more often male. I think it is a call saying hello I'm here come to me and not neccessarily a mating call. I have noticed that when barking occurs, all the other animals between cages stop and listen as if they are in a trance. This I find interesting. Some may bark back. Perhaps barking is simply singing and they bark when they are happy or content or safe...

One way or another, barking is an advertisement of something and not a stress verbalization.

CRABBING

Another very common and annoying sound will be crabbing. Crabbing is hard to define, but is not far from how a hamster cries when frightened. It is a repeated screeching that they do when frightened, bothered or provoked.

CRYING

Babies have a way of audibly identifying themselves to their mother by crying. A single baby's cry is very specific between it and its mother, but there can be a wide variety of patterns and sounds between different babies. An offspring will remember its cry for its entire life and will often verbalize when it meets its parent, especially after long periods of time.

The animals will squeek and hiss when playing or fighting and they make many other unnoted sounds while active.