Nocturnal.  Can glide for up to 50 metres from one tree to another, with the aid of skin between the fore and hind limbs.  Social groups of up to seven adults plus young, spend the day curled up in a nest of leaves in a tree hollow.

Gum and sap of acacias and eucalypts, insects and nectar.

Two young are born in winter.  They remain in the pouch for ten weeks and are fully independent at seven to ten months of age.

Forested areas with abundant acacia, in northern and eastern Australia.  Also occurs in New Guinea.