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Sugar gliders leap between trees on skin wings

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Instead of climbing carefully down branches, these incredibly brave tiny marsupials simply hurl themselves straight into the void. By stretching out thin membranes attached to their wrists, they casually drift across massive forest gaps, steering with their tails. They essentially invented base jumping millions of years before humans ever considered packing a parachute.

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