Sugar glider self-mutilation: tail-base/limb trauma in intact males lacking access to females
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*[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* Sexually mature male sugar gliders lacking access to females may 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.