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female sugar gliders

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Question
do girl sugar gliders have a cycle like they are in heat?

Answer
Sugar gliders generally breed three times a year.  I have not found a particular pattern to the mating, except to say that they do mate soon after the joey comes out of the pouch.  Here's a quote from the Internet about mating season in the wild.  Since captive bred gliders have a more controlled environment, the conditions are not the same.

In Australia, the wild sugar gliders's breeding season is July to December( midwinter to start of Summer) and usually they have two sets of babies within that time. It is believed the time of birth in the wild is linked to the time/s of the year when additional protein is available to assist in lactation. Breeding twice within these time frames has curiously also been noticed in captive gliders that are kept in an outside aviary environment in Australia.