Ini beberapa kriteria yang biasa di sebut bonded/bonding. Untuk mengklasifikasikan seberapa bonded kah SG kita .
Ini bkan hasil penelitian saya, tp saya dapat dari sebuah sumber.
MY DEFINITION:
SEMI-FRIENDLY: When you go in the box glider will crab, but doesn’t lunge or bite. It may come up to you and smell your finger(at night). Will not climb up on your hand or arm at night. It also will not stay on your shoulder or sit still in your hand during the daylight hours. It’s struggling to get away as you hold baby. It also may bite(hard nip) if contained or you hold it back from getting loose. It may come to the front of cage to see you at night, but if you put your hand in their cage they will run away.
FRIENDLY: The sugar glider will crab at first then intensity or tone should change after it recognizes you. It will climb on you at night, but as you move your hand or arm it will jump off back into cage. You can hold your baby but it will jump off to investigate or may get scared and run and hide. It may still taste ”nip” you.
BONDED: No crabbing(may give a grunt crab as you are waking them up, but should stop immediately once they recognize you). Will come to the front of the cage and climb on you and walk up your arm to shoulder without jumping off. It may still smell your hand before it climbs on to you(slight delay before it climbs on you). It still may jump off to investigate or if it gets scared. If it nips it is a communication that it wants something, a drink or a snack. It also should sleep in the pouch without struggling to get out but still may crab slightly when it gets bumped or woke up by strange noises.
TIGHTLY BONDED: There is no crabbing as you go in to box or cage during daylight or night time hours. The glider at night will climb on your hand and either ride on it or run up to your shoulder after your hand is out of cage. There is no hesitation to climb or jump on you as you open cage door. Sugar glider will ride on hand or shoulder as you walk around at night and usually will not jump off of you. If it gets scared it will freeze or run in pouch or down shirt.(if you taught it to do this for comfort and security). It also will not jump off to just investigate,(you can never say never will jump off), sometimes my extremely bonded adults do, but it is a rarity when they do and it usually means they want to go back to their living quarters. They sometimes do above at night but during the day they are content to sit in my cupped hands eating a cricket. The glider should also not shake or act like it is scared while it is on you during day or at night. It should be very trusting of what you are doing or where you are going(animal in pouch). While in pouch glider should not crab if woken up or if it is bumped or disturbed in any way. In other words NO crabbing or taste nips, just communicational light pinch sometimes.
EXTREMELY TIGHTLY BONDED:
I DO NOT recommend to do the things I am about to tell you that I do with “Peanut”. She is a very unusually tightly bonded sweetie and very loving friend. We will not be responsible for any lost or injured sugar gliders, if you do these type of things with your glider. It took years of trust and a lot of bonding time for me to trust her 100% on me, and not to jump away.
#1 I let her run loose in the car at night, on the way to the store. When we get to the store, I go in the back seat of car and she will come to me or I put hand down to her and pick her up and she will go in her pouch(she has three different styles and sizes) on her own. She will stay in t-shirt pouch or regular pouch(with no zipper or latch), sometimes she will sneak a peek out the top fold of the pouch and then settle back down in pouch. When we get back to the car(she knows the car) she will come out and go to the back of car. Sometimes she comes up front on my shoulder to check in with us or climbs on my steering wheel and across the dash. If she has babies(they go too) she will leave the babies in the pouch with “daddy glider”, me. We Do Not Let Her Run loose in the car anymore this can be dangerous and we had another glider that went up in the air unit. Thank Fully she came out as I talked to her, it was Kay Kay.
#2 I will take Peanut out of pouch during the day or night to show people, I hold her in an open hand outside under tree or in the shade(not direct sunlight). I do this at stores, open air flea markets, animal shows, etc. At shows she will walk around on the table and go in a nest box, but will not jump off the table. I show her in open hand with babies on her belly nursing, she lays on her back very content and shows her kids off. Then she will flip over and head for her pouch and climb in on her own.
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