See Phalanger, Petaurist, and Flying phalanger under Flying.
Australian flying phalanger (Belideus sciureus), having a long bushy tail and a large parachute.
Footnote]: "The marsupial flying phalanger is so called by the Australians.
In the island of Waigiu the converse phenomenon has been observed in Phalanger maculatus.
The Phalanger lives amongst the branches of the trees, on which it climbs about at night with great agility; its food consists partly of fruits and partly of small birds, which it easily captures during its nocturnal excursions.
Dormouse-Phalanger is a name sometimes given to them.
It is a curious fact that this aberrant little Phalanger should come from Western Australia, like the even more aberrant Myrmecobius.
The vulpine phalanger does duty for a fox; the fat and sleepy little dormouse phalanger takes the place of a European dormouse.
The most widespread of these is the Spotted Cuscus, a phalanger with a woolly coat, the male of which has large black or brown spots on a cream-coloured ground, while the female is uniform brown.
As the first example of the group may be taken the elegant little long-snouted phalanger (Tarsipes rostratus, fig.
As indicated in the accompanying illustration, the long-snouted phalanger is arboreal in habits, extracting honey and probably small insects from long-tubed flowers by means of its extensile tongue.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "phalanger" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
