The males scent mark using their bald spot on their heads which is called a frontal gland, and their chest, a sternal gland. When I introduce new things or their new mates, they would rub their heads and chest on the new cage stuff and also the females that enter their territory. The male would also sometimes look like he is dragging his chest all over the cage, trying to cover the entire cage with his musky scent.
Females and males do mark, males being the more obvious and aggressive marker. Both sexes of gliders do possess minor glands on their feet, chins and sides of their mouths as well as their butts. Yups, their rear end. Females have scent glands around the opening of their pouches, which is why you can see brown stains when females have joeys. This is so that the joeys would have the female’s smell, and she could recognize them.
Another way that I see my gliders scent mark is by peeing concentrated of urine, all in droplets around anything they would want to claim as their territory. My gliders would leave a thin dropelt train of pee on me when they climb on me. I see their cage bars with droplets of pee. That is why we should wipe our cages every night with a wet towel so that it stays clean.
Once I saw my female Keera rubbing her head under Gip Gip’s chin. She was trying to get the male’s scent on her, which was hilariously funny. Too bad my friend and I did not bring our cameras at that time when we were out having a drink. Then Keera grabbed Gip Gip’s head and rub her chest on his bald spot.
So I hope you understand why gliders mark.
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