{"topic_id":"exotic_husbandry_sugar_glider_diet","category":"exotic-pet-husbandry","context":"---\ntopic_id: exotic_husbandry_sugar_glider_diet\ncategory: exotic-pet-husbandry\ntitle: \"Sugar glider diet — fruit-heavy diets cause nutritional osteodystrophy\"\nlang: en\nsource: \"Merck Veterinary Manual — Sugar glider husbandry/environment\"\nsource_file: pdf-raw/exotic-toxicology/sugar-glider.txt\ndate_parsed: 2026-07-29\ntokens_estimated: 60\nverified: true\nverification: c1_substring\nsource_document: \"Merck Veterinary Manual (professional veterinary reference)\"\ncitation:\n  authority: \"Merck Veterinary Manual\"\n  title: \"Sugar glider diet — fruit-heavy diets cause nutritional osteodystrophy\"\n  url: \"https://www.merckvetmanual.com/exotic-and-laboratory-animals/sugar-gliders\"\n  retrieved: \"2026-07-29\"\n  ref: \"\"\n  doc_type: \"professional veterinary reference\"\n  needs_review: false\n---\n\n# Sugar glider diet — fruit-heavy diets cause nutritional osteodystrophy\n\nThe text below is reproduced verbatim from the first-hand source (Merck Veterinary Manual).\n\n> Pet sugar gliders maintained on a mainly fruit diet containing few gut-loaded insects or other protein sources are very susceptible to nutritional osteodystrophy (nutritional secondary hyperparathyroidism). This condition results from an imbalance in dietary calcium, phosphorus, and vitamin D and manifests clinically as posterior paresis progressing to hindlimb paralysis, muscle tremors, pathological bone fractures, and, in some advanced cases, seizures.\n\nSource: `pdf-raw/exotic-toxicology/sugar-glider.txt` (first-hand professional veterinary reference, tag-stripped).\n\n## Claims (verified C1 substrings of source_file)\n- `Pet sugar gliders maintained on a mainly fruit diet containing few gut-loaded insects or other protein sources are very susceptible to nutritional osteodystrophy (nutritional secondary hyperparathyroidism). This condition results from an imbalance in dietary calcium, phosphorus, and vitamin D and manifests clinically as posterior paresis progressing to hindlimb paralysis, muscle tremors, pathological bone fractures, and, in some advanced cases, seizures.`\n","sources":["exotic-pet-husbandry — Sugar glider diet — fruit-heavy diets cause nutritional osteodystrophy (retrieved 2026-07-29)"],"source":{"authority":"exotic-pet-husbandry","title":"Sugar glider diet — fruit-heavy diets cause nutritional osteodystrophy","url":"https://www.merckvetmanual.com/exotic-and-laboratory-animals/sugar-gliders","retrieved":"2026-07-29","ref":"","doc_type":"official PDF","source_document":"Merck Veterinary Manual (professional veterinary reference)","verification_file":"pdf-raw/exotic-toxicology/sugar-glider.txt"},"source_document":"Merck Veterinary Manual (professional veterinary reference)","source_file":"pdf-raw/exotic-toxicology/sugar-glider.txt","tokens_estimated":60,"generated_at":null,"tip":"Use /api/v1/topics to discover more topics. /api/v1/nutrient for precise single-point queries. /api/v1/cross_compare for 2-3 standard comparisons."}