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Happy belated #WorldTreeKangarooDay! Tree-kangaroos are aboreal Australasian macropod marsupials, genus Dendrolagus with 14 species - all listed on the IUCN Red List.
Top: Plates 26 + 27 in John Gould's A Monograph of the Macropodidae, or Family of Kangaroos (1841-2)
Bottom: Plates 49 + 50 in Gould's The Mammals of Australia (1863)
Left: Ursine Tree-kangaroo (Dendrolagus ursinus)
Right: Grizzled Tree-kangaroo (Dendrolagus inustus)
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Matschie’s Tree-Kangaroo (Dendrolagus matschiei) at the Kansas City Zoo #worldtreekangarooday https://www.instagram.com/p/Cd0_ghOr_uk/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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