Tree Kangaroos and Rufous Bettongs are largely solitary, although they sometimes associate in pairs, trios, or small groups of adults and their young.
"Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity" - Bruce Bagemihl
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Unicolored tree kangaroo (Dendrolagus dorianus)
Photo by John Slapcinsky
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Bronx Zoo, New York City (No. 41)
Matschie's tree-kangaroo (Dendrolagus matschiei), also known as the Huon tree-kangaroo is a tree-kangaroo native to the Huon Peninsula of northeastern New Guinea island, within the nation of Papua New Guinea.
Under the IUCN classification, Matschie's tree-kangaroo is an Endangered species.
The scientific name honours German biologist Paul Matschie.
With a body and head length of 20 to 32 inches (51–81 cm), Matschie's tree-kangaroo are much smaller than Australia's well-known red kangaroo. An adult male weighs between 20 and 25 lb (9–11 kg). An adult female weighs between 15 and 20 lb (7–9 kg)
There is no particular season in which they breed. Gestation lasts 44 days and joeys of captive bred individuals leave the pouch after 11 months. The average life span of the Matschie's tree-kangaroo in the wild is unknown, but is at least 14 years. The life span of the kangaroo in a zoo is about 20 years.
The most distinctive trait of all tree-kangaroos is the hair whorl they possess. It is a patch of hair that goes out in many directions and its location ranges from up near the shoulders all the way down to the tail. The Matschie's tree-kangaroo is golden on its ventral side, lower parts of its limbs, ear edges, belly, and tail, and the rest of its body is a chestnut brown colour, except for usually having a dark stripe down its back. Their faces are typically an array of yellow and white colours. The Matschies’ are similar in colour and size to Dendrolagus dorianus, the Doria's tree-kangaroo. Matschies’ ears are small and bear-like looking and they do not have a good sense of hearing because of it. They have curved claws on their forelimbs and soft pads on their hind limbs that aid in their climbing ability, and they have some independent movement of their digits as well as good dexterity due to their forelimbs being able to bend a great deal. The 4th and 5th digit of their feet are enlarged, the 1st digit is absent, and the 2nd and 3rd digits are syndactylous (two digits that look like one fused together). Scientists have discovered that the Matschie's are able to walk bipedally and there's a lot of rotation in their limbs for climbing. Out of all of the Dendrolagus species, the Matschie's tree-kangaroo is the best vertical climber and has more strength in its muscles than any others. Their tails help to offset their balance while moving swiftly through the trees since their tails are about the same length as their head and body size. Sexual dimorphism is very low, with males and females being of about equal sizes. The upper and lower jaws of the Matschie's tree-kangaroos are different too in addition to them being different in body size. The upper jaw has three incisors, one canine, one premolar, and four molars, while the lower jaw has one very sharp incisor, no canines and low crowned molars.
Source: Wikipedia
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Port Moresby Nature Park
Port Moresby Nature Park
Understandably one of the most popular places in Port Moresby, the Nature Park is the best (or at least the easiest and cheapest by some margin) way to see the incredible native animals of Papua New Guinea up close.
The first enclosure was a converted WW2 structure relocated from downtown Port Moresby. It was home to some of the most colourful birds in the park, such as the Eclectus Parrot,…
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Favorite Mammals List
Hey guys I figured I should do a favorite mammal based on what group they are in (like wild cats, wild dogs etc) Because lets be honest I love animals and can never choose just one favorite. So yeah lets get started *Warning this is going to be really long AND I'M SORRY I DON'T KNOW WHERE THE PUT UNDER READ MORE IS...t-t. I will do a fav bird, reptile, amphibian and even fish. I won't do invertebrates though as I am scared of 90% of them. But the rest I will do in different posts because it'll get wayyyyy to long.*
Mammals:
Egg-laying mammals: Platypus
Marsupials: Doria's Tree Kangaroo
Insectivores: Western European Hedgehog
Bats: It's a tie between Egyptian Rousette or Rodriguez flying fox.
Lemurs: Ruffed Lemur
Monkeys: Eastern black and white Colobus Monkey
Apes: White-cheeked Gibbon
Anteaters and Relatives: Southern tamandua
Rabbits: Arctic Hare
Squirrel-like Rodents: Indian Giant Squirrel
Mouselike Rodents: Striped Grass Mouse
Cavylike Rodents: It's a tie between Chinchilla and Capybara BECAUSE I JUST LOVE BOTH OF THOSE SO MUCH.
Baleen Whales: Blue Whale
Toothed Whales: Bottlenose Dolphin
Dogs and Relatives: Fennec Fox
Bears: Giant Panda
Raccoons and Relatives: Red Panda
Mustelids: Ermine
Otters: (which get their own category even though it's in the mustelids family): Giant Otters (CAUSE THOSE THINGS ARE MASSIVE they grow to like 4 feet long)
Civets and Relatives: Meerkat
Hyenas and Aardwolf: Spotted Hyena
Cats: Leopard
Seals and Sea Lions: Harp Seal
Elephants: African Elephant
Horses and Relatives: Prezewalski's wild horse
Rhinos: It's a tie between white rhino or black rhino.
Tapirs: Malayan Tapir
Pigs: RED RIVER HOGS GOSH I LOVE THOSE GUYS
Camels and Relatives: Alpaca (since Alpaca's relative is Vicuna and that is in the same family)
Deer: Caribou
Cattle and Relatives: Bongo and Gerenuk
Domestic Cat: Birman
Domestic Dog: Shetland Sheepdog
And yes I did use my animal dictionary as a guide for this. Next up is Birds :)
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ECOCORE The Queer Issue
cover 1: Exene Karros @donaldtrompeloeil
cover 2: Andrej Dubravsky @andrej_dubravsky
cover 3: Caspar Jade Heinemann @angstravaganza
ECOCORE is proud to announce issue 6, an online only issue dedicated to queer strategies in nature. Following the US withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement it is urgent to find new approaches to ecology and environmentalism.
Starting today @ blog.ecocore.co
Queerness is not yet here. Queerness is an ideality. Put another way, we are not yet queer. We may never touch queerness, but we can feel it as the warm illumination of a horizon imbued with potentiality. We have never been queer, yet queerness exists for us as an ideality that can be distilled from the past and used to imagine a future.
-José Esteban Muñoz,
Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity
Ecocore’s sixth issue, The Queer Issue, guest edited by The Institute of Queer Ecology (IQECO), operates at the intersection of queer and environmental discourse, with a mission to improve both fields. Each movement, perpetually evolving though not fast enough, benefits from being in conversation with the other.
Yesterday I found myself at one of the last shows of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, in Providence, Rhode Island. I had just left a meeting with two other members of IQECO, where we discussed the types of invisible labor being done by plankton (plus other microbial Foundation Species) and queer (human) communities. When I arrived at the circus, then, I found myself still burdened with criticality.
When the lights went out and spotlights hit a cage in the center of the arena, 12 tigers were sitting on stools and I braced myself for an unnerving show. A large man with dueling whips lashed the tigers, ordering the cats to jump, roar, stand, and move about. I sank lower into my chair, feeling rather microbial as a crowd of thousands clapped and screamed in excitement at the spectacle of human supremacy.
Earlier, as the National Anthem had boomed, a lesbian couple sat down next to me and I let out a sigh of relief. The three of us would form an instant unspoken alliance for the next 3 hours, silently critiquing the The Greatest Show on Earth. So when the 12 tigers began leaping in fear of a man who commanded them and the audience into a frenzy, I looked towards my newfound queer sisters. I was disappointed to see that they too were cheering, hand in hand.
I lay out this anecdote to highlight the dangerous rift still standing between queer and environmental justice. I expected the couple next to me to naturally align themselves with the subjugated tigers, rather than with oppressive man. But as critical conversations about ecology and queerness are still far from the mainstream, this way of thinking takes time and dedication. Eventually, I believe it will prove incredibly helpful for both the lgbt+ community and the natural world. This new alignment allows queer individuals to find kin with any oppressed species, many of which are queerer than we imagined. While tigers have not yet been observed to engage in homosexual behavior, at least another 1,500 species have, including lions, where homosexual and trans individuals have been recorded.
Our simplified collective understanding of human gender and sexuality collapses on itself when we are confronted by a fungus with 28,000 sexes. Catriona Sandilands states (while discussing the works of Elizabeth Wilson and Myra Hird) that “nonhuman sexual and gender diversity both calls into question human exceptionalism and destabilizes notions of identity, authenticity, and technology on which modern categories of human sexual orientation rest.” The research is overwhelming and powerful, as exemplified by the enduring influence of Bruce Bagemihl’s seminal text, Biological Exuberance. Bagemihl’s book about animals with homosexual tendencies was used as evidence by the American Psychiatric Association before the US Supreme Court in Lawrence v. Texas, a case that ultimately struck down sodomy laws in 14 states.
The Queer Issue presents IQECO’s inaugural attempt to present a sliver of this growing body of research, as well as works by artists that consider this hybridized way of thinking. The Queer Issue is assembled eclectically, with republished texts by Bruce Bagemihl that have heavily influenced the field, as well as original commissions for the occasion of this issue. Liby Hays will present a collection of four poems from the perspective of a Trans Termite Queen. Briohny Walker will contribute a new paper on an ethics of failure and futurelessness. Greta Skagerlind invites you to contribute to their ever-growing in-flux definition of Queer Design Principles via a collaborative google doc. Ryan Hammond will talk about their ongoing work, Open Source Gender Codes, which attempts to queer current regimes of pharmaceutical production and systems of ownership by producing open source hormone production protocols.
Ecocore and IQECO welcome you to The Queer Issue.
Edited by Lee Pivnik for the Institute of Queer Ecology
Bruce Bagemihl
Urban Barnyard
Alessandro Bava
Andrej Dubravsky
Ryan Hammond
Liby Hays
Caspar Heinemann
Alex Ju
Exene Karros
Les U. Knight / VHEMT
Lee Pivnik
Isabella Rossellini
Jack Schneider
Greta Skagerlind
Briohny Walker
Additionally, we would like to out our non-human contributors. The following is a list of animals that have been recorded exhibiting either homosexual or transgender behavior, assembled by Bagemihl in his 1999 publishing of Biological Exuberance. Their vibrant and diverse existence reminds us with force that we are not alone in our queerness, but should our species continue to encroach on their habitats, we may find ourselves increasingly lonesome.
Acorn Woodpecker
Addax
Antelope
Adelie Penguin
African Buffalo
African Elephant
African jacana
African swallowtail butterfly
Agile Wallaby
akepa
Allen hummingbird
Amazon Molly
Amazon River Dolphin see Boto
American Bison
American kestrel
angelfish
Anna’s Hummingbird
ant
Aoudad
Aperea
arctic tern
Asiatic Elephant
Asiatic Mouflon
Atlantic Spotted Dolphin
Australian noisy miner
Australian raven
Australian Sea Lion
Australian Shelduck
avocet
Aztec Parakeet
badger
Bank Swallow
Barasingha
Barbary Sheep
Barn Owl
barn swallow
bat
bearded seal
beaver
Beluga Bengalese Finch (Domestic)
bewick’s swan
Bezoar
Bharal
Bicolored Antbird
Bighorn Sheep
bird of paradise
black-and-white warbler
Black Bear
Black-billed Magpie
Blackbuck
black-capped chickadee
black-capped lorikeet
Black-crowned Night Heron
Black-footed Rock Wallaby
black-headed grosbeak
Black-headed Gull
Black-rumped Flameback
Black Stilt
Black Swan
Black-tailed Deer
black-tailed gull
black-tailed prairie dog
Black-winged Stilt
Blue-backed Manakin
Blue-bellied Roller
blue-billed duck
bluebird
bluejay
Blue Sheep see Bharal
bluethroat
Blue Tit
Blue-winged Teal
boat-tailed grackle
Bonnet Macaque
Bonobo
Boto
Bottlenose Dolphin
bowerbird
Bowhead Whale
Bridled Dolphin
Brown Bear see Grizzly Bear
brown booby
Brown Capuchin
Brown-headed Cowbird
Brown Long-eared Bat
brown noddy
Brown Rat Budgerigar (Domestic)
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
bufflehead duck
burro
Bush Dog
butterfly
Calfbird
California Gull
California sea lion
Canada Goose canary
Canary-winged Parakeet
Caribou
Caspian Tern
cassowary
Cat (Domestic)
Cattle (Domestic)
Cattle Egret
centipede
Chaffinch
Cheetah
Chicken (Domestic)
Chiloe Wigeon
chimney swift
Chinese water deer
clapper rail
Cliff Swallow
Collared Peccary
Commerson’s Dolphin
Common Brushtail Possum
Common Chimpanzee
Common Dolphin
Common Garter Snake
Common Gull
Common Marmoset
Common Murre
Common Pipistrelle
Common Raccoon
Common Shelduck
Common Tree Shrew
coral goby
cormorant
Costa’s hummingbird
cottontail rabbit
Cotton-top Tamarin
coyote
coypu
Crab-eating Macaque
crane
crane fly
Crane spp.
Crested Black Macaque
crow
Cui
curlew
cutworm
Dall’s Sheep see Thinhorn Sheep
Damaraland mole-rat
Daubenton’s Bat
Dayak fruit bat
Desert Tortoise
dipper
Dog (Domestic)
Doria’s Tree Kangaroo
dragonfly
Dragonfly spp.
Dugong
Dusky Moorhen
Dwarf Cavy
Dwarf Mongoose
eagle earthworm
Eastern Bluebird
Eastern Cottontail Rabbit
Eastern Gray Kangaroo
echidna
Egyptian Goose
eider duck
Eleanora’s falcon
Elegant Parrot Elk see Wapiti
emperor penguin
Emu
Euro
European Bison see Wisent
European jay
European Shag
falcon
Fallow Deer
False Killer Whale
Fat-tailed Dunnart finch
Fin Whale
firefly
fisher
Flamingo
fox
fox squirrel
frog, poisonous
fruit bat
Fruit Fly spp.
fulmar
Galah
garter snake
gecko
Gelada Baboon
Gentoo Penguin
giant cowbird
giant river otter
Giraffe
glaucous-winged gull
Goat (Domestic)
Golden Bishop Bird
golden eagle
golden lion tamarin
Golden Monkey
Golden Plover
Gorilla
Grant’s Gazelle
Gray-breasted Jay
Gray-capped Social Weaver
gray-cheeked mangabey
Gray-headed Flying Fox
Gray Heron
Gray Seal
Gray Squirrel
Gray Whale
great bustard
Great Cormorant
great crested flycatcher
great egret
Greater Bird of Paradise
greater painted-snipe
Greater Rhea
great tit
Green Sandpiper
Greenshank
Greylag
Goose
Griffon Vulture
Grizzly Bear
grouper
grouse
Guianan Cock-of-the-Rock
Guillemot see Common Murre Guinea Pig (Domestic)
Hamadryas Baboon
hamlet Hammerhead
Hamster (Domestic)
Hanuman Langur
Harbor Porpoise
Harbor Seal
hare
Harris’s hawk
Harris’s sparrow
hawk
hawkmoth
hedgehog
heron
Herring Gull
Himalayan Tahr
Hoary-headed Grebe
Hoary Marmot
honeybee
hooded pitohui
Hooded Warbler Horse (Domestic)
house martin
House Sparrow
Humboldt Penguin
humbug damselfish
humpback whale
hyena
Indian Fruit Bat
Indian Muntjac
Indian Rhinoceros
Ivory Gull
jabiru stork
jacana
Jackdaw
jackrabbit
Japanese Macaque
Japanese sea raven
Javan wart snake
Javelina see Collared Peccary
jellyfish
kalanga parrot
Kangaroo Rat
kentish plover
Kestrel
Killer Whale
king bird of paradise
King Penguin
kit (blue) fox
Kittiwake
kiwi
Koala
Kob
lantern bass
lantern fish
Lapland longspur
lapwing
Larga Seal see Spotted Seal
Laughing Gull
Laysan Albatross
Least Chipmunk
Lechwe lemming
lesser black-backed gull
Lesser Bushbaby
Lesser Flamingo
lesser kestrel
Lesser Scaup Duck
lesser yellowlegs
Lion
Lion-tailed Macaque
Lion Tamarin
Little Blue Heron
Little Brown Bat
Little Egret
Livingstone’s Fruit Bat
Long-eared Hedgehog
Long-footed Tree Shrew
Long-legged Fly spp.
long-tailed duck
Long-tailed Hermit Hummingbird
long-tailed manakin
loon
lorikeet
lucifer hummingbird
lunulated antbird
magnificent hummingbird
Mallard Duck
marabou stork
marbled murrelet
Markhor
marmoset
marsupial mouse
Marten sp.
Masked Lovebird
Matschie’s Tree Kangaroo
Mazarine Blue
Mealy Amazon Parrot
Mew Gull see Common Gull
Mexican Jay see Gray— breasted Jay
mink
Mocó
Mohol Galago see Lesser Bushbaby
mole
mole-rat
mole-vole
Monarch Butterfly
monitor lizard
Montagu’s harrier
Moor Macaque
Moose
moth
Mountain Goat
mountain lion
Mountain Tree Shrew
Mountain Zebra
Mule Deer
murre
Mustached Tamarin
mustached warbler
Musk Duck
Musk-ox
Mute Swan
naked mole-rat
natal robin
Natterer’s Bat
New Zealand fur seal
New Zealand Sea Lion
nightjar
Nilgiri Langur
Noctule
North American Porcupine
Northern Elephant Seal
Northern Fur Seal
northern jacana
northern lapwing
Northern Quoll
northern rough-winged swallow
Ocellated Antbird
Ocher-bellied Flycatcher
Olympic Marmot
one-wattled cassowary
opossum
Orange Bishop Bird
Orange-fronted Parakeet
Orang-utan
Orca see Killer Whale
oriole
Ornate Lorikeet
osprey
Ostrich
owl
oyster
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Doria’s tree-kangaroo (Dendrolagus dorianus)
Photo by Miriam Silverstein
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Doria’s tree-kangaroo (Dendrolagus dorianus)
Art by Peter Schouten
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Doria’s tree-kangaroo (Dendrolagus dorianus)
Also known as: Unicolored Tree Kangaroo
Doria’s tree-kangaroo is one of the largest tree-kangaroo species, and weighs 6.5–14.5 kg, its length is 51–78 cm, with a long 44–66 cm tail. It has long dense brown fur with black ears and a pale brown or cream nonprehensile tail. This marsupial is found only in montane forests of southeastern New Guinea island. The species was named in 1883 by Edward Pierson Ramsay in honour of Italian zoologist Giacomo Doria. Its diet consists of various leaves, buds, flowers and fruits. The gestation period is about 30 days, after which, the single young remains in the mother’s pouch for up to 10 months. Its forest habitat is threatened by logging and forest clearance. Being large sized, it’s also hunted for its meat.
Classification:
Animalia - Chordata - Mammalia - Metatheria - Marsupialia - Australidelphia - Diprotodontia - Macropodiformes - Macropodoidea - Macropodidae - Macropodinae - Dendrolagus - D. dorianus
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