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Sugar Gliders and Broken Legs
Sugar Gliders, like many small creatures, are fragile. Their bones are small and rather thin and as they are active animals, it’s possible to fracture a leg. There are several different types of fractures, but those that occur most often are a simple fracture and a compound fracture. A simple fracture of the bone is […]



