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Lumholtz's tree kangaroo - DENDROLAGUS LUMHOLTZI
Possibly Endangered
Class: Animals with Milk Glands (Mammalia)
Subclass: Changing Mammals (Metatheria)
Order: Pouched Mammals (Marsupialia)
Family: Macropodidae.

Tree kangaroos
Animals / Mammals / Diprotodontia (117) / Macropodidae (54) / Dendrolagus (9)
Genus Dendrolagus
contains 9 species ...

Tree kangaroos are found only in the rain forests of Australia, West Papua, and Papua New Guinea. Six of ten species are found in Papua New Guinea, in some of the last undisturbed rain forest habitat in the world.

Tree kangaroos dwell mainly in mountainous rain forests up to 3000 m (9800').
Goodfellow's tree kangaroo occurs in the New Guinea Lowland Forests Global 200 Ecoregion. (Olson & Dinerstein 1998, Olson & Dinerstein 1999)
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The tree kangaroo's favorite foods are leaves and buds. They will also eat flowers, tender grasses and bark.

Doria's tree kangaroo, the heaviest tree-dwelling marsupial in the world, is, despite appearances, closely related to the well-known kangaroos that can be found on the plains of Australia. Like the ground kangaroos, Doria's tree kangaroo has a long ...

Tree kangaroos are the marsupial equivalent of monkeys, but only evolved about 5 million years ago, so are not as agile in the trees.

Lumholtz Tree Kangaroo
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Matschie's Tree Kangaroo
Dendrolagus matschiei
Matschie's tree kangaroos are one of 10 species of kangaroo that spend most of their time in trees (arboreal). Powerful forelimbs and independent hind limbs make them agile climbers.

Black and White Tree Kangaroo specimen
Black Dragonfish, Idiacanthus atlanticus Brauer, 1906
Black Field Cricket
Black Flying-fox
Black Flying-fox
Black House and Grey House Spiders
Black House Spider in sheet web
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Our binturong (a relative of the meerkat and mongoose) and tree kangaroo both come out on leashes for animal presentations and walks.

Tree kangaroos, species of the genus Dendrolagus, are the only arboreal members of the family. Found in the rain forests of New Guinea and N Australia, they climb well and can leap from branch to branch.

Medium-sized, forest-dwelling species-such as the swamp wallaby, tree kangaroo, and wallaroo-browse on leaves, shoots, and twigs.

There are various kangaroos, includes the great gray kangaroo, largest member; the wallaroo ; the red kangaroo , common in zoos ; the brush kangaroo or Wallaby , smaller and familiar in all zoos of Europe and America; the tree kangaroo, ...

See also: Kangaroo, Lemur, Beetle, Echidna, Penguin