Sugar glider self-mutilation: tail-base/limb trauma in intact males lacking access to females
Verbatim first-hand facts extracted from the Merck Veterinary Manual (first-hand saved source pdf-raw/exotic-health/mvm_sugarglider_disease.txt). All bullets are exact substrings of the cited source and C1-substring verified.
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> Sexually mature male sugar gliders that lack access to females might self-mutilate the tail base, limbs, scrotum, penis, or perineum and can develop paraphimosis, in which the penis remains extruded from the cloaca and becomes traumatized and devitalized, necessitating amputation.
Source: pdf-raw/exotic-health/mvm_sugarglider_disease.txt (first-hand Merck Veterinary Manual text).
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Sexually mature male sugar gliders that lack access to females might self-mutilate the tail base, limbs, scrotum, penis, or perineum and can develop paraphimosis, in which the penis remains extruded from the cloaca and becomes traumatized and devitalized, necessitating amputation.