Uploaded December 2012 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
My 6 year old blind sugar glider is normally awake at various times during the day. I caught him doing a strange stereotypy inside of a new box I had just put in. He spins around and around endlessly as if the feeling of dizzyness is pleasurable or at least breaking up the monotonany of cage life. I figure that this is simply a form of stimming for him. He is otherwise fine, is not sick, and when he was done he went back to the colony pouch. He normally spends a lot of time running in exercise wheel. Maybe this activity just helps him poo. I also figure that the smooth surface is new and interesting to him as the cage is mostly entirely non-smooth surfaces which would inhibit such a recklessly repetitive behavior.
My 6 year old blind sugar glider is normally awake at various times during the day. I caught him doing a strange stereotypy inside of a new box I had just put in. He spins around and around endlessly as if the feeling of dizzyness is pleasurable or at least breaking up the monotonany of cage life. I figure that this is simply a form of stimming for him. He is otherwise fine, is not sick, and when he was done he went back to the colony pouch. He normally spends a lot of time running in exercise wheel. Maybe this activity just helps him poo. I also figure that the smooth surface is new and interesting to him as the cage is mostly entirely non-smooth surfaces which would inhibit such a recklessly repetitive behavior.
