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Encyclopedia: Golden-mantled Tree-kangaroo
The Golden-mantled Tree-kangaroo, Dendrolagus pulcherrimus is a species of tree-kangaroo native and endemic to montane forests of northern New Guinea. It has chestnut brown short coat with a pale bell...
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Goodfellow's Tree-kangaroo, Dendrolagus goodfellowi; central and southeastern New Guinea. Golden-mantled Tree-kangaroo, Dendrolagus pulcherrimus;
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The golden-mantled tree kangaroo is just one of dozens of species discovered in late 2005 by a team of Indonesian, Australian, and U.S. scientists on the island of New Guinea. The animal is the rarest arboreal, jungle-dwelling kangaroo in the world, the researchers say.
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See some of the previously unknown species that scientists recently discovered in a remote mountain range on the island of New Guinea. The golden-mantled tree kangaroo is just one of dozens of species discovered in late 2005 by a team of Indonesian, Australian, and U.S. scientists on the island of New Guinea.
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Feb 6, 2006 Mammal expert Kris Helgen is seen holding a golden-mantled tree kangaroo (Dendrolagus pulcherrimus) in New Guinea.
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The Golden-mantled Tree-kangaroo is the smallest member of the Goodfellow's Tree-kangaroo complex. The two specimens known (both female) weighed 7 and 7.1...
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The Golden-mantled Tree-kangaroo is similar to the closely related Goodfellow's Tree-kangaroo shown here (Dendrolagus goodfellowi)
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The Golden-mantled Tree Kangaroo (Weimang) (D. pulcherrimus) is found in mid-montane rainforest at elevations of 680-1120m in the Torricelli Mountain Range of Sandaun Province, PNG. It is one of three species of Tree Kangaroo found in this range.
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It also found a new large mammal for Indonesia -- the Golden-mantled Tree Kangaroo (Dendrolagus pulcherrimus), formerly known from only a single mountain in neighboring Papua New Guinea.
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The world's rarest tree kangaroo is in the midst of a comeback in a remote part of Papua New Guinea. ; World's rarest tree kangaroo gets help from those who once hunted it; Rhett A. Butler, mongabay.com ; August 17, 2009;; An interview with Jim and Jean Thomas of the Tenkile Conservation Alliance;
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