Identify the animal shown in the figure.

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(C) The animal shown in the figure is a Sugar glider. Adaptive radiation is the process of evolution of different species in a given geographical area

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(C) The animal shown in the figure is a Sugar glider. Adaptive radiation is the process of evolution of different species in a given geographical area starting from a point and literally radiating to other areas of geography (habitats). Australian marsupials exhibit adaptive radiation. When more than one adaptive radiation appeared to have occurred in an isolated geographical area (representing different habitats),one can call this convergent evolution. Placental mammals in Australia also exhibit adaptive radiation in evolving into varieties of such placental mammals each of which appears to be 'similar' to a corresponding marsupial (e.g.,Placental wolf and Tasmanian wolf-marsupial). The Sugar glider is a marsupial that shows convergent evolution with the placental Flying squirrel.

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